Students are also taught that the West is, “a hostile force that introduced heretical ideas into the Islamic world, such as secularism… with the aim of destroying Islam…” One textbook describes the impact of secularism as causing “the spread of alcoholism, gambling, prostitution, ‘calls for licentiousness’ and ‘contempt for the values of purity and modesty'”. None of these teachings is exactly a recipe for integration or assimilation into the Western countries in which Qatar seeks to project its influence — quite the contrary.