Why Does Al Jazeera Love a Hateful Islamic Extremist?

July 10 (Bloomberg) -- So, it hasn’t been the best week forAl Jazeera, the television network owned by Qatar’s despoticruling family, for the same reason that it hasn’t been a greatweek for the despotic ruling family itself: the ouster ofEgypt’s president, Mohamed Mursi, the bumpkin fundamentalist.

Qatar pumped a lot of money into Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhoodgovernment, and for what? The Qatari royal family should sue theBrotherhood for malfeasance. So much hope was riding on Mursi’sexperiment in political Islam. Although Qatar spreads the riskaround a bit -- it has provided millions of dollars to Islamistsin Syria and to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas (nowthere’s an investment in the future) -- Mursi represented itsmain chance to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism.