irst 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" 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,” according to a translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.

The White House had no comment when Politico Magazine asked whether the first lady’s office was aware of Hawwas’s latest sermon or the succession of other intolerant preachers at the mosque, which serves the Foundation’s Education City, home to satellite campuses for six American universities. Obama is scheduled to speak on her “Let Girls Learn” initiative at the 2015 World Innovation Summit for Education, which the Qatar Foundation established in 2009.
However, in an email to Politico, White House spokesman Eric Schultz appeared to question the premise of this article, writing: “You are asking for a response to a statement made about speakers who the First Lady has never referenced, has never met, and nor will be participating in the First Lady’s event?”


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