or majority stakes in things like the shard, sainsbury s, the london stock exchange, barclays, and they ve invested billions in this country. but they are controversial at the moment, because they provide a home to hamas, to the political wing, the external political wing of hamas. a lot of israelis will say, what do you mean, the external wing, the political wing ? there s no such difference, they re all terrorists, all of them. but qatar doesn t view things quite that way. qatar is very much on the side of political islam, and that s why it was up on the naughty step recently for several years. saudi, bahrain, uae all ostracised qatar. because they don t trust qatar. they think that it is a trojan horse for letting in the muslim brotherhood and its ideology that they find dangerous. and finally, on our geographical tour. mm. ..are you one of the people
parts or majority stakes in things like the shard, sainsbury s, the london stock exchange, barclays, and they ve invested billions in this country. but they are controversial at the moment, because they provide a home to hamas, to the political wing, the external political wing of hamas. a lot of israelis will say, what do you mean, the external wing, the political wing ? there s no such difference, they re all terrorists, all of them. but qatar doesn t view things quite that way. qatar is very much on the side of political islam, and that s why it was up on the naughty step recently for several years. saudi, bahrain, uae all ostracised qatar. because they don t trust qatar. they think that it is a trojan horse for letting in the muslim brotherhood and its ideology that they find dangerous. and finally, on our geographical tour. mm. ..are you one of the people that think that, really,
of islam in politics. i mean, the uae is an immense success story. i mean, somebody described dubai once as the most successful arab city in history and yet the arabs are a tiny minority there. and the other centre in the gulf is doha, which follows a very different policy and so forth. tell me about the way that they ve gone about things. so doha is the cap. it s basically the capital of a city state, qatar, which is an emirate. and 40 years ago, it was an absolute sleepy backwater. they have decided to leverage their enormous gas wealth to go on a shopping spree all over the world, but especially in london, so they own a lot of iconic things, parts or majority stakes in things like the shard, sainsbury s, the london stock exchange, barclays, and they ve invested billions
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