POLITICO
Michelle’s Dangerous Journey to Qatar
by David Andrew Weinberg
November 3, 2015

First Lady Michelle Obama, on her first solo trip to the Middle East, is scheduled Wednesday to address a conference at the Qatar Foundation on the topic of tolerance and better education. But only a few days before her visit the mosque that serves the foundation’s educational center hosted a notoriously anti-Semitic sheik who inveighed against “Zionist aggressors” in his sermon and called upon Allah “to count them in number and kill them completely, do not spare a [single] one of them.” One day before the White House announced the first lady’s travel plans, the Qatar Foundation’s accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram all promoted the Oct. 30 sermon by the sheik, Tariq al-Hawwas, who has delivered several televised diatribes against Jews, saying in 2013: “if only Hitler had finished them off, thus relieving humanity of them,”… READ MORE