Why should we be defending certain Gulf State monarchies, and the Turkish government, when they are actively subverting and colonizing the West? https://t.co/YZWOXVQDiI
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) April 25, 2026
Let's realize that there is a real war of colonization being waged against us by the Gulf monarchies. There is a long-term project to reshape European societies from the inside — mosque by mosque, imam by imam, generation by generation. The mechanism is elegant in its simplicity. You do not need to send armies. You send money, and the money builds institutions, and the institutions shape minds. Saudi Arabia understood this first, deploying petrodollars on a civilizational scale from the 1960s onward — not to help European Muslims pray, but to replace the diverse, often relaxed Islam they brought from their home countries with a uniform Wahhabi doctrine hostile to integration, to pluralism, to the West itself. The mosques built with Saudi money were not culturally neutral spaces. They came loaded with textbooks, preachers, and an ideology that treats European liberal society not as a home to inhabit but as an enemy to outlast. Turkey refined the model into something even more operationally precise. Diyanet is a state apparatus disguised as a religious authority — its imams are civil servants on Ankara's payroll, its mosques are embassies without flags. The goal is explicit in its own strategic documents: maintain the Turkish diaspora as a disciplined, Erdoğan-aligned constituency inside European democracies, insulated from integration, responsive to Ankara's political signals. When German intelligence flags a DITIB mosque, or Austria bans foreign imam funding, they are responding to something real — a parallel governance structure operating inside their borders, financed by a NATO ally. Qatar plays a different game, more ideological than demographic. Its money flows almost exclusively through Muslim Brotherhood networks, funding not just buildings but the intellectual infrastructure of political Islam in Europe — the think tanks, the student associations, the legal advocacy groups that push for accommodations incompatible with secular democratic norms. The Brotherhood's explicit goal, documented in its own internal papers, is not coexistence but the long-term Islamization of European society through institutional capture. Qatar is the banker of that project. What makes this a genuine colonization — and the word is not hyperbolic — is the combination of scale, intentionality, and asymmetry. European states fund nothing comparable inside Gulf or Turkish societies. They cannot. The project runs in one direction only, exploiting the openness of liberal democracies as a vulnerability. Freedom of religion becomes a shield behind which foreign states operate influence networks. Secularism becomes a constraint that prevents democratic governments from scrutinizing what is preached in mosques they had no hand in building. The genius of the operation is that it weaponizes European values against Europeans. Every time a government tries to regulate foreign mosque funding, it faces accusations of Islamophobia. The accusation is the last line of defense of a system that would tolerate nothing remotely similar on its own soil.
