He noted that Qatar, a nation of only 300,000 people, is one of the wealthiest in the world, and houses the leadership of Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Kamas -- the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Small said that the country and its royal family have taken a "spiritual oath" (baya) to the Muslim Brotherhood. "The Muslim Brotherhood is a small, reactionary entity that started 100 years ago in Egypt," Small explained, "[one] which fuses Nazism with a perversion...of Islam." "Qatari royal family follows all religious edicts, rulings, and fatwas of the Brotherhood," Small said. AdvertisementKhanfar also had close ties to the late Yusuf al-Qaradawi, former spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.