UAE produces a documentary in Europe to incite against Qatar

Reliable sources revealed that the UAE had launched a project to prepare a documentary film in Europe to incite against Qatar and discredit it.

The sources told Emirates Leaks that the film aims to interview current and former officials from several European countries in exchange for financial bribes to attack Qatar.

The sources stated that the film focuses on the claim of linking Qatar with terrorism and offending Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, former head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.

Several Arab journalists in Europe, especially in Belgium, reported receiving job offers from an Emirati media production company preparing the film.

Three journalists of different Arab nationalities confirmed to Emirates Leaks that they had rejected Emirati job offers as unethical and directed at inciting against Qatar.

Recently, a Hollywood movie co-produced by an Emirati film company faced ratings as “immoral” and “ridiculous” for its portrayal of Qatar as a “terrorist state”.

Co-produced, filmed and financed by UAE-based Film Gate Productions in partnership with Paramount Pictures and Highland Film Group, The Misfits tells the story of master thief Richard Pace, played by Pierce Brosnan.

The latter escapes from a maximum-security prison in the United States and continues to steal millions from the most secure facilities in the world.

In the film, the director refers to Qatar as “Island” and accuses its citizens of supporting “terrorist organizations” while portraying “Abu Dhabi mercenaries” as heroes, according to Al Jazeera English.

The film depicts Sheikh Al-Qaradawi as “the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and the sponsor of global terrorism,” which is nothing more than an Emirati attempt to “destroy Qatar’s reputation.”

For his part, Abd al-Rahman Muhammad al-Emadi, CEO of Al-Emadi Hospital, announced that they are in the process of filing a lawsuit against the company that produced the film for using the institution’s trade name without prior permission and for offending the State of Qatar.

Last week, the leaders of unions and associations of journalists from Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, affiliated with the Federation of African Journalists and the International Federation of Journalists, expressed their shock and rejection of the deliberate contacts made by the UAE with the journalist unions in East Africa and Africa as a whole, to discredit the organization of the World Cup FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar.

In a statement issued after a meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 28 to 29 June 2021, organized under the slogan “Standing together for media freedom and better working conditions,” the journalists said: “While journalists in the East African region struggle to preserve their independence and freedom from rogue government and commercial interests that threaten the integrity of journalists, an outside actor is behind attempts to manipulate, divert and involve journalists in an issue completely outside the scope and powers of journalists and their unions.

“In the same way that journalists and their unions in East Africa are calling, confronting and protesting against governments for their interference in the work of journalists and the curtailment of their freedoms, all foreign powers that have a negative and false agenda must be condemned and publicly challenged as a matter of principle and consistency.”

The statement reiterated the decision of the Accra Conference issued by the African Journalists Union, which categorically condemned the attempts of UAE actors to drag African journalists into unprincipled conflicts over hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

It also affirmed compatibility with the International Trade Union Confederation position and the International Labor Organization on labour issues in the State of Qatar.

The statement renewed the warning and call for attention on the part of all journalists and news media organizations in East Africa against the increased activities of external actors in East Africa and Africa as a whole that seek to corrupt and manipulate journalists and news media organizations to disseminate paid news against the Cup. FIFA World Cup 2022.

It also rejected the initiatives of foreign sympathizers with the UAE campaign against the FIFA World Cup to involve journalists in evil behaviour and actions.

Saudi Arabia announced in January that it had reached an agreement to end the Gulf dispute, during which the kingdom, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties with Qatar in 2017 over accusations of supporting terrorism, which Doha denied.

Diplomatic and regional sources said that Riyadh and Cairo are moving more quickly than the UAE and Bahrain on the path of restoring relations with Doha.