In the Netherlands, the number of Islamic schools continues to rise, and Dutch taxpayers are paying for much of that expansion. As of 2025, those taxpayers were spending, on Muslim primary schools alone, 145 million euros. The amount spent on Islamic secondary schools has not yet been made public. More on the Dutch government’s financing of schools that teach young Muslim pupils that they are “the best of peoples” and non-Muslims “the most vile of created beings,” and that, as Muhammad insisted, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated,” can be found here:
Dutch Taxpayers Spend Millions Every Year on Islamic Schools
by Zolta Győri, European Conservative, June 19, 2026:
The Netherlands is spending millions of euros each year on a rapidly expanding network of Islamic schools, even as concerns grow over integration, foreign influence, and the emergence of a new religious pillar within Dutch society.
More than 20,000 pupils were attending Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands at the beginning of 2025, with the number continuing to rise, according to NieuwRechts.
Between 2009 and 2019, enrolment in Islamic primary schools increased by 60%. In the following five years, it rose by a further 23%. Nine new Islamic primary schools are expected to open in 2026, bringing the total to more than 100 nationwide. Islamic secondary schools are also expanding rapidly….
Concerns about these institutions have grown in recent years. Dutch intelligence and security services have warned that foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have sought influence through funding for mosques, Islamic schools, and informal educational programmes. Those concerns helped prompt legislation aimed at restricting foreign influence in religious institutions, although the Dutch Senate ultimately rejected the proposal.
One wonders why the Dutch Senate voted down such a proposal to prevent foreign governments from funneling money to mosques and madrasas in the Netherlands. Was there fear that those who supported such legislation would then be accused of “racism” and “Islamophobia”? Or was money from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait used to influence the legislators?
Or did they just want to take advantage of the Arab money to ease the strain on Dutch education budgets? Of course, they were oblivious to the dangers of Arab (read Wahabi) influence on Muslim students.
Critics also point to the role of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has long advocated the gradual Islamisation of society and the establishment of states governed by Sharia law. They argue that publicly funded Islamic institutions can, even unintentionally, provide an environment in which such ideas gain influence.
If the Dutch want Muslim migrants to assimilate into the larger society, then they should cease their financial support for schools that teach young Muslims precisely the opposite — that they should remain aloof from the society created by the Infidels whose views and values they so despise.
The Dutch senators should reconsider the bill, that they previously rejected, to prohibit foreign funding of mosques and Islamic schools. It is particularly worrisome that the biggest foreign funder of Islamic schools in the Netherlands is Saudi Arabia, where Wahabi fundamentalism prevails. Furthermore, the senators should reject their own government’s funding of Islamic schools whose teachings both increase Muslim isolation from the larger society, and decrease the level of social cohesion. Once Dutch voters learn what is in the curriculum of such schools, that inculcate hostility, and even hatred, of non-Muslims, they will undoubtedly pressure their representatives in the States General to end all public funding of Islamic schools. Why should the Dutch pay for schools whose pupils are taught to hate and despise them?
Qatari influence over American academic institutions and beyond is no secret. The Muslim Brotherhood-supporting country is infamous for buying influence. It doesn’t stop at America. It’s in Canada, too, affecting kindergarten kids to high schoolers in grade 12.
Edmonton schools renew Arabic course tied to board’s Qatari partnership
by Melanie Bennet, Juno News, June 19, 2026:
Edmonton Public Schools has renewed an Arabic Language and Culture course that has been operating in the school board since 2011, while maintaining a longstanding partnership with a Qatari charity—Qatar Foundation International.
The organization recently announced it was winding down its U.S. operations after American researchers alleged it had used language programs, teacher training, and educational partnerships as a vehicle for advancing Qatari soft power in schools and universities.
Edmonton schools told Juno News that the course has operated since 2011 and currently serves 168 students, but did not answer questions about whether QFI has played any role in Arabic programming delivered by the board…..
But a Global News report entitled Bilingual studies programs in Edmonton Public Schools offers more than just second language showed that the Edmonton Public School Board and Muslim Brotherhood-supporting Qatar were in a partnership for over a decade:
In a library packed with teachers, dignitaries and family, dozens of Grade 6 students from Glengarry School performed a traditional Arabic song and dance. It’s part of a unique language and culture-based Arabic/English bilingual program offered through Edmonton Public Schools.
“The classroom looks dramatically different than it did 30 years ago,” Edmonton Public School Board Chair Michael Janz said Tuesday, after celebrating a new agreement with the Qatar Foundation International.
The memorandum of understanding between the school district and QFI will promote the teaching and learning of Arabic language and culture….
It's the "and culture" that worries me.
Islam is the state religion of Qatar, and Sharia is its primary source of legislation. The Edmonton Public School Board justifies its Arabic program as “knowledge and appreciation of different cultures,” with no previous knowledge of Arabic necessary to participate. The schools even provide some transportation for the younger elementary kids to get to where Arabic courses are offered. Although the Edmonton Public School Board offers a range of language classes, Qatar’s ties with the Muslim Brotherhood are a paramount problem, as is Qatar’s history of supporting Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas. So what message is the Edmonton Public School Board sending to its students, from kindergarten through grade 12, under the banner of DEI? And where are the parents of the grade school kids? They likely don’t even know.
Recall above, in the Global News report, that Edmonton Public School Board celebrated “a new agreement with the Qatar Foundation International.” According to the Lawfare Project website:
The Lawfare Project has been examining the nature and extent of Qatar’s involvement in the American education system. Qatar’s involvement through its agent, Qatar Foundation International (QFI), is substantial and significant. Students are learning about the Middle East in a biased way that emphasizes only the positive aspects of Islam while omitting a balanced discussion of other religions or belief systems, most notably Judaism.
The Lawfare Project’s research suggests that the Foreign Agents Registration Act, 22 USC 611-621 (FARA), applies to Qatar’s activities, and requires that the institutions and individuals benefiting from its funding register as agents of Qatar. The Lawfare Project has submitted a memorandum on this issue to the Department of State, and is advocating that the government require these pernicious foreign influences to register as foreign agents….
In 2024, under the Liberal Government of Canada, Canada and Qatar signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate “in areas of common interest, as well as in countries where both have active development programming.” These areas included “policy dialogue” and “enhancing institutional linkages.” The primary focus was on the “Education Above All Foundation,” which “will allow both parties to collaborate on education projects.”
The Edmonton Public School Board’s “language course sequences” are now described as “widely available,” and Qatar can be thanked, as the country continues to buy its way into the child and youth education process at American and Canadian educational institutions, from kindergarten right through university level.
