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Note the Useful Idiots at the end of the article. War Is Deceit Update: "3 Men Convicted In Muslim Charity Probe: Prosecutors: Care International Was Pro-Jihad," from AP (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
BOSTON -- Three former leaders of an Islamic charity were convicted Friday of duping the U.S. government into getting tax-exempt status by hiding the group's pro-jihad activities.Care International Inc., which is now defunct, described its mission as helping war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations. But prosecutors said the organization also distributed a newsletter promoting jihad and supported Muslim militants involved in armed conflicts around the world.
Emadeddin Muntasser, the founder of Care International; Muhammed Mubayyid, the group's former treasurer; and Samir Al-Monla, the president of Care from 1996 to 1998, were charged with tax code violations, making false statements and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
After a two-month trial and more than two weeks of deliberations, a federal jury found them guilty on all counts, except a false statements count on which Al-Monla was acquitted. Each of the charges carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Kenneth Wainstein, an assistant attorney general for national security in Washington, called Friday's verdict "a milestone in our efforts against those who conceal their support for extremist causes behind the veil of humanitarianism."
Wainstein said the case "serves notice that we will not tolerate the use of charities as a means of promoting terrorism."
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Prosecutors alleged that Care was raising money to support mujahideen, defined in the indictment as "Muslim holy warriors," and that it published the pro-jihadist newsletter called "al-Hussam," which means "The Sword" in Arabic.
Prosecutors acknowledged Care did some legitimate charity work, but said the group concealed non-charitable activities from the government. Specifically, prosecutors said the men did not tell the government it supported mujahideen in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Pakistan and other countries. Care also used a portion of its donations to publish an English translation of "Join the Caravan," a pro-jihad book.
Harvey Silverglate, a prominent Cambridge civil rights attorney, and Susan Estrich, the former presidential campaign manager for Gov. Michael Dukakis who is now a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, also had argued that Care's activities were protected by the First Amendment.
Posted by Robert at January 11, 2008 4:42 PM
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Actually, if the IRS were to go after these Jihadists with their usual strongarm tactics, that would be an ideal use of their resources, as well as an appropriate punishment for the Mohammedans.
Posted by: Infidel Pride
at January 11, 2008 4:57 PM
www.strategycenter.net has an interesting article on islam/moslems in the US courts for 2007. If you look at the graphs, you'll see that , as I've said before, 9/11 was the opening salvo; i.e., there has been a huge increase in court cases involving moslems since 2001.
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.177/pub_detail.asp
at January 11, 2008 5:02 PM
..."Each of the charges carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison"
...good news indeed, but I bet these guys are thankfull they were not convicted by an Islamic court...
at January 11, 2008 5:06 PM
Care, CAIR - whoops! just misunderstood Islam again!
Posted by: tanstaafl
at January 11, 2008 5:29 PM
Well I wonder how Ibrahim is going to spin this. Can't wait to receive my CAIR email update
snark off
at January 11, 2008 5:39 PM
"a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, also had argued that Care's activities were protected by the First Amendment."
Making speeches endorsing political candidates is also protected by the 1st Amendment, but it is an activity prohibited to a charity, as is supporting terrorism. And lying on one's application for exempt status, and continuing to lie on annual filings is FRAUD!
Posted by: cumulusnine
at January 11, 2008 6:26 PM
Three more names to add to an ever growing, running list of Islamic militants in our midst who have been caught trying to follow Mo's example.
Chalkin' em up right now.
Posted by: DCWatson
at January 11, 2008 6:48 PM
Norway Sends Money to Paki Koran Schools, Money Disappears
http://sheikyermami.com/2008/01/11/norway-sends-money-to-paki-koran-schools-money-disappears/
at January 11, 2008 7:12 PM
I guess none of those animals would want to put Israel in the position of facing a genocidal missile threat, as does the Commander in Chief of the US. Reality dictates: jihad terror is like breathing to a muslim. Before he took the step of following Europeans in the development of the "Medieval Synthesis" (Scholastist incorporation of Greco-Roman philosophy into theology), Averroes (ibn Rushd) established religious credentials by writing a book on jihad obligations. According to him, both giving moral and financial support to jihad is front-line activity; there is no rear base in jihad. And as the Koran concocter vomited: "jihad is prescribed to you." Islam is terror; muslims are terrorists.
The polls that repeatedly reveal 70% of Americans - presumably the evolution-is-fiction chimp chorus - trust the muslim subversive, reveal extreme deference, bordering on re-monarchization of America, to the "islam is peace" klepto-autocracy. Notwithstanding the ability to read al-Faraj's influential report on the need for muslim understanding of Jihad ("The Neglected Duty"), Americans refuse to even consider any argument that questions any cult with any connection - no matter how tenuous - to the testimony of the nominal "prophet," Abraham.
It will take 9-11 hits time 1000 before Americans shake Bush-dogma on the alleged inherent pacificity of the muslim enemy. Eventually, Americans will learn that the 3700 Americans who were murdered by jihadis in Iraq, died because Bush imposed 24-7-365 patrols through IED/sniper nests with the purpose of showing what morons refer to as "resolve." And the Wall Street Journal has just colored the Shiite/Sunni ceasefires - post ethnic-cleansing - in that country as evidence of success in the Surge. History will dictate: Americans nation-built when they should have been destroying the ideological-political foundations of the Islamic peril.
At some time in the future, an American majority will at long last be ready to read the following attached book, by "islam-is-peace" hero' Qaradawi, and finally admit that muslim animals talk peace, with a knife behind their backs:
http://www.muslimdiary.com/downloads/Aupices%20of%20The%20Ultimate%20Victory%20of%20Islam.pdf
The evolution-is-fiction majority will read that Qaradawi text through the islam-is-peace/islam-is-a-religion-of-abraham/jew-muslims-and-christians-believe-in-the-same-god/islam-elevates-women/islamic-law-conduces-civil-order filters. Only in face of a personal mortality threat, will Bush-Zombies end the denial of inherent genocidal belligerence of muslim pigs. Until that time, the mortal enemy will continue to enforce the Bush-Surrender of September 16, 2001, when he took Oval Office dictation - from Wahabi, Ikhwani, Tabligh, Jamaatu, and Khomenist operatives - and vomited, "ISLAM IS PEACE." That is the principal pillar of US foreign policy.
Posted by: supercargo
at January 11, 2008 7:16 PM
Dittos Supercargo..
As per the 'pubs debate last night, did you catch Thompson's rejoinder about if the US Navy in Straight of Hormuz would have fired upon the Republican Guards they "would" sarc/on have (?) met their virgins? He was the ONLY one to have however offhandley referred to their misogynist and sexually deprived playbook and he received well received applause. The Nazi playbook as Aryans Vs everyone else is quid-pro-quo Qu'ran believers vs Infidels. Look forward to SC and tho respect Thompson..hope Rudy wins...Regards to all JWs
Posted by: nodak
at January 11, 2008 7:30 PM
Susan Estrich and Henry Silverglate are examples of useful idiots who embody the destructive idea that the Bill of Rights is a suicide pact.
Let me also remind these Jewish "progressives" that Jews are in the jihadist bullseye. Why make the shot easy?
at January 11, 2008 7:30 PM
nodak:
Thompson is as open-minded as a politician who broke the trophy-wife rule can be. Honesty is the supreme vice in politics.
Re the "virgin" reward to jihadis; muslim academics ensure that the dhimmi class have limited ability to use that embarassing aspect of the islamic hadith. The source of same is the Tirmidhi collection of hearsay accounts of statements of the phony "prophet" of islam. You can find Tirmidhi on the internet, but available versions exclude all contraversial sections. Also, even more embarrassing section are found in Ibn Majah' hadith. Only segments of that hadith are found on the internet, and those are only in arabic.
Lesson: muslim academics fear critics. Ergo: if we had leaders who criticize islam, they would be as against the ropes as was Pakistan on 9-11. The evolution-is-fiction surrenders of the candidates suggest that yet another pious moron will pollute the White House for another 8 years. By the end of the second term, the Ayatollahs will have ICBMs aimed a US cities, and US Muslims will be in the thick of a private-law (read; shariah) campaign.
Does anyone disbelieve the theory of "evolution?" Do you believe that distant light that hits your eye-balls, is only 6,000 years old? Do you believe that some god entity would create light suspended in mid flight? Do you believe that Bush-Zombism will yield progress?
Posted by: supercargo
at January 11, 2008 8:03 PM
What are you talking about? Those skeptical of evolution have been the most compliant in efforts to stop jihad. Those that are very supportive of evolution have almost always been on the left, who has doubted the sincerity and threat of jihad, and heavily criticized any reports that suggest anything otherwise than islam is a religion of peace.
Am I missing something? Are you speaking in some sort of methaphor that came off very unclear? If not, I have to say you are quite mistaken if you think that most allies of islam don't believe in evolution.
Posted by: Kelana
at January 11, 2008 8:19 PM
Supercargo--
I agree with Kelana-- your last paragraph isn't relevant to the task at hand.
If someone's willing to make common cause with us against the jihad, it bothers me not if they worshipped the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and subscribed to the creation story associated with it.
Posted by: MarisolJW
at January 11, 2008 8:25 PM
That's the spirit, Marisol!
How do you feel about the LGF-lizard hysteria over Flaams Belang, Brussels Journal and Gates of Vienna? Is every European who wants to defend his country against the Muhammadan invasion a white racist bigot Nazi supremacist?
In other news: Infiltration in the EU!
Posted by: sheik yer'mami
at January 12, 2008 2:50 AM
Dearest Amilia,
You are very welcome here at Jihad Watch to share with us the joys you are experiencing from your new found faith. You will be pleased to hear that there many vibrant and active Muslim communities operating overtly throughout the USA and that there will be one tailored to your emotional needs. However I do hope that you take a little more care in future over the internet sites you frequent. They may turn out to be counterproductive to the fledging part of your spiritual journey.
Posted by: western infidel
at January 12, 2008 4:37 AM
The comments by Susan Estrich and Henry Silverglate doesn't come as a surprise. Remembering Estrich in Dukakis campaign made me think of a statement by Dukakis on swedish national radio two days ago. There he claimed that he had regrets from his presidential campaign, that he didn't win. Why?
If he had beaten Bush the elder, the U.S and the world "would not be in this mess" - meaning war on terror.
I think the man has some issues with humbleness!
Does he realy believe that he, by being president at that time, would have curbed the global jihad? Oouups!, forgot - thatīs the no, no word... It must be - he would have promoted a foregn police of overt groweling and U.S bashing - and voila! The extremists would never have apeared. Why didn't the Byzantines think about that? Or the spaniards? Or the hindus of the first millenia A.D?
Posted by: cAi
at January 12, 2008 5:32 AM
MarisolJW
I believe that most Christians have a pathological fear of losing their faith, because they sense it is tenuous. Thus, they decline to criticize Muslims because they believe that an attack on any cult - especially a pseudo-Abrahamic one - would fall on their own.
Bush-Abrahamism is beyond denial. In his inside book ("The Right Man") on the early Bush presidency, David Frum wrote of how the president gathered a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim in the Oval Office, and told them that without "faith" he would still be "an alcoholic with little hope." His slavish defenses of the islamic murder cult, at each year's Eid affairs, is positive proof that he prescribes Abrahamic "faith" as a tonic, and refuses to learn that Muslims are required to hold to the strict dogma concerning the Satanic nature of the Judaeo-Christian Testaments. A "recitation" (quran) was supposedly issued to Abraham - who was a Chaldean magi and not a Hebrew priest - but gradually degenerated into Satanic script.
Generally, muslims will NOT accept a Christian Bible, unless taqiyah necessities and expediencies compel same. In stark contrast, in the Bush-Surrender of Sept. 16, 2001, he quoted from Muhammed's concoction, as if that genocide-manual was a book of wisdom.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html
Posted by: supercargo
at January 12, 2008 5:37 AM
supercargo,
You're way off base. Someone pathologically afraid of losing his faith wouldn't accept anything BUT that faith being practiced in his domain. That defines Muslims, not Christians.
Bush is merely doing the PC thing, with his multifaith communes. The vast majority of believers are peaceful. The problem is that religions, like political movements, are changed by vocal minorities. Our attempts to appeal to the majority of "peaceful" Muslims are wasted because they are not the ones in charge.
Posted by: PMK
at January 12, 2008 8:32 AM
I'll believe in evolution when you can create life from non-life. If that's too hard gimme a couple transitional fossils, anything.
Regardless, WTF does believing in evolution or not have to do with squaring off against jihad? When the battle comes here, and it will, I won't care if the guy to my left is an animist and the guy to my right is a Jew. As long as we are focused on eradicating the cancer that is islam you can believe or not believe in whatever you want.
Posted by: BigDaddyKool
at January 12, 2008 10:51 AM
Supercargo--
Just to summarize what I understand your argument to be: that Christians, most of whom, in your opinion, have a tenuous hold on their faith, find solace in the notion that a belief in a shared Abrahamic heritage mutually validates its claimants.
With that, I disagree. For me, Islam affirms the truth of Christianity by contrast, not comparison, especially in the example of Jesus versus that of Muhammad. I can ultimately only speak from my own experience, but I still question the assertion that "most" Christians are so worried about being induced to discard their faith.
I think those who are swayed by apologists who play the "Abrahamic" card are ignorant, and, like Bush, are taken in by the sanitized, Karen Armstrong-esque portrayal of Islam and Muhammad as tolerant, egalitarian, and so on.
I do believe there are many who are terrified of the implications of being wrong about that-- indeed, abandoning that article of faith: If the establishment discards the idea that Islam is a Religion of Peace, 1.) they have to admit they made a mistake. 2.) They have to make a 180-degree shift in how they approach jihad and Islamic countries. 3.) It will be unpopular in many circles and people won't like them, especially the Saudis, Palestinian Authority, and others to whom they've been pandering so energetically up until now.
But the "Abrahamic" phenomenon does not correlate in general with Christian beliefs: So many non-Christians use the phenomenon to discard all 3 religions as equally flawed, if not dangerous and violent.
Most of all, however, the "Abrahamic" angle is relativistic, so it doesn't mix well with the absolutist bent of the creationists you implicate in it. They need not be the same group, and are surely most often not.
For that matter, the relativism is a problem in making common cause against jihad (Because if it's all basically the same, who are we to judge, eh?). Particular beliefs in how we got here aren't, unless one insists on making it an issue, and that's not necessary because it isn't the issue. Whatever the manner in which we all got here before recorded history, we all face a jihadist threat now: Creationist, Evolutionist, Pastafarian (referencing my comment above) are all welcome.
Posted by: MarisolJW
at January 12, 2008 4:13 PM
BOSTON -- Three former leaders of an Islamic charity were convicted Friday of duping the U.S. government into getting tax-exempt status by hiding the group's pro-jihad activities.from AP
Stop the presses!
The AP actually referred to jihad ?!?!?!?!?!?!?
What next?
Outright pro-Americanism?
Posted by: joeblough
at January 12, 2008 5:03 PM
joeblough
Don't forget, too, the Washington Post article that was solemnly discussing what it called 'Sudden Jihad Syndrome' (a phrase first coined here, if I am not mistaken?).
Perhaps, just perhaps, this website, and others, are beginning to make a difference.
"Cast your bread upon the waters, and it will return to you, after many days".
at January 13, 2008 4:20 PM
"Harvey Silverglate, a prominent Cambridge civil rights attorney, and Susan Estrich, the former presidential campaign manager for Gov. Michael Dukakis who is now a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, also had argued that Care's activities were protected by the First Amendment."
Oh, DON'T get me started on Susan Estrich! Every time I see that woman on TV, I turn the volume down, her voice is so annoying ... and not to mention what she's talking about is usually nonsense. Case in point here.
Posted by: Lori B.
at January 14, 2008 1:39 PM
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