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Kuwait steps up controls on Islamic charities to quell jihadist funding

Aug 6, 2014 10:00 am By Robert Spencer

HindAl-SabeehIn Kuwait, authorities can recognize that Islamic charities are funneling money to jihad terror groups, and step up controls on those charities so as to try to choke off that funding. And in the U.S., several Islamic charities have been shut down after having been found to be financing jihad terror. But in the U.S., the investigation and prosecution of these charities has been widely condemned as “Islamophobic.” Even Barack Obama pledged in 2009 to ease up on scrutiny of Islamic charities, as if the whole enterprise had been unjust. Will Kuwaitis denounce these new controls on Islamic charities as “Islamophobic”?

“Kuwait steps up controls on Islamic charities,” AFP, August 5, 2014:

KUWAIT CITY // Kuwait has stepped up controls on Islamic charities, including donations for war-ravaged Syria, as part of measures to curb funding for extremists, newspapers reported Tuesday.

Hind Al Sabeeh, the social affairs and labour minister, said the measures aim to “correct the course” of action of non-profit organisations, according to Al Qabas newspaper.

The new measures “oblige charities to issue a transparency document identifying the source and final destination of the funds they have raised,” said Ms Sabeeh.

The measures also require charities authorised to raise funds to “obtain officially stamped receipts from the ministry, otherwise the collection of donations would be considered illegal,” she said.

“Any illegal work will not continue, and we will not tolerate it.”

Ms Sabeeh’s remarks came after Kuwait’s cabinet discussed the issue at its weekly meeting on Monday.

The Islamic Affairs Ministry announced the same day it was suspending all types of fund-raising inside mosques, including for the “Syrian people”.

Kuwait imposed a ban on cash donations in 2004 and insisted funds be paid only through banks at the charities’ offices and not at mosques.

But Kuwait has faced US charges of insufficient controls on fund raising.

The latest US country report on terrorism said there were increased reports in 2013 of Kuwait-based private individuals funnelling charitable donations and other funds to violent extremist groups outside the emirate, particularly to Syria.

And the US Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, David Cohen, charged earlier this year that former Islamic affairs minister Nayef Al Ajmi had “a history of promoting jihad in Syria.”

Backed by the Kuwaiti cabinet, the minister denied the accusations. But he quit in May barely four months after taking office.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Aug 6, 2014 at 10:09 am

    Reference to:
    ” But in the U.S., the investigation and prosecution of these charities has been widely condemned as “Islamophobic.” Even Barack Obama pledged in 2009 to ease up on scrutiny of Islamic charities,”
    ——————————–

    It is like refusing to have and rotted abscessed tooth pulled and even denying the use of Novocain.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Aug 6, 2014 at 10:21 am

    This is all a show to satisfy the PC leaders of the West. In reality money goes to jihadis aka terrorists to advance Islam. We can see it but not our leaders and media. Have we elected stupid leaders or what??

  3. Oliver says

    Aug 6, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Even more frightening to me –in Saudi Arabia -SAUDI ARABIA–the police routinely search mosques for weapons, and if found, the leaders (Imams ro whomeever) go to prison.

    Also, one of the Gulf states.

    here in the US– cannot do it. Weird. strange, frightening.

  4. tpellow says

    Aug 6, 2014 at 6:54 pm

    In contrast-

    “Ex-MI6 chief cites ISIS’s Saudi, Qatari donors”

    (inc Cartoon)

    http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ex-mi6-chief-cites-isiss-saudi-qatari-donors/#comments

  5. Sarah L Nield says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 10:56 am

    (Sarcasm incoming!)

    Cutting funding to Muslim charities wot only want help the children of Gaza.
    It must be the US and Britain and Australia and the noted Islamphobes and pro Zionists that the main political parties are riddled with.
    What?
    Kuwait.
    (checks list to see if it is one of the Designated Islamphobic Countries).
    Ah. OK. Nothing to see here.
    To paraphrase Bart Simpson;
    We didn’t think it, no one was aware we thought it, no one can prove anything.
    LOOK! ISRAEL IS TO BLAME!

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