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Islamic State richest jihad terror group, Hamas second

Nov 12, 2014 5:25 pm By Robert Spencer

isis12n-4-webThe Islamic State has money from oil sales. Hamas has money from you and me, taxpayers in the West forking over money at the command of our governments, money that is given to Gaza for “humanitarian aid” — money that goes to the jihad against Israel.

“ISIS Richest Terrorist Group, Hamas Comes in 2nd,” by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Jewish Press, November 12th, 2014:

Terrorist groups frequently operate as criminal organizations, engaging in activities such as drug trafficking, robberies and extortion, in order to finance their terrorist operations.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the most notorious, barbaric terrorist group at the moment, ISIS, is now officially the richest terrorist group of all time, according to Forbes Israel. Hamas, another Islamist terrorist organization, is in second place.

In addition to their criminal activities, the terrorist groups also raise substantial funds through “charities,” donations, and, incredibly, in some cases by government agencies.

As surreal as it is to be discussing ISIS in terms of a typical business model, the Forbes report also discussed how ISIS acquires and pays for various tasks similar to most other large organizations, including maintenance, salaries, training, acquisition of weapons and vehicles.

Not content with listing the richest men or women in the world, Forbes also provided a ranking of the ten richest terrorist organizations, including their net worth and rankings.

ISIS has an annual income of $2 billion. The terrorists in second place is Hamas, which takes in $1 billion annually. In third place is a non-Middle Eastern terrorist organization, one that has been around for a long time: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – the People’s Army (FARC), which rakes in $600 million annually.

In fourth through sixth place are more Middle Eastern Islamic terrorist groups: Hezbollah ($500 million), the Taliban ($400 million), and Al-Qaeda and affiliates ($150 million).

In 7th place is another Islamic group, the Pakistan-based Lashkar e-taiba ($100 million). This group was behind the deadly Mombai bombings in late fall of 2008.

In eighth and tenth places are two more Islamist groups, both based in Africa. In eighth place is Al-Shabab ($70 million), and tenth place is Boko Haram ($25 million)….

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    … and tenth place is Boko Haram ($25 million).

    Damn, I knew the Bokos were peddling those 12 yr old sex-slave girls too cheap. They should hold an auction on eBay and ramp those revenues up. Or, they can attack the oil fields down by Lagos. That would be an even more enriching tactic.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    Funny, but I thought that Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as Iran, rated as richer in the jihad terror state rankings. But I suppose waging jihad terror by proxy doesn’t count for the purposes of this list.

  3. jewdog says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    I’m just curious if there is an Islamic stock exchange. If so, then these organizations could issue stocks and bonds to help finance their operations, drawing investment funding from the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims and 5 billion useful idiots. Would their glossy brochures feature groveling dhimmis and sex slaves? Maybe an aspiring Islamic State manager could earn an MBA: Master of Beheading Administering.

    • Salah says

      Nov 12, 2014 at 11:28 pm

      ISIS wants to introduce its own currency

  4. Marblenecltr says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    Mr. Spencer, stop complaining! You would only waste that money on health, mortgage payments, children’s education, retirement… Compare that to how the worthy recipients use the money, then complain. (All sarc., need I say?)

  5. +james says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    So there is no blockade of ISIS controlled Syria and Iraq? Are all the technicians at the oil wells ISIS supporters? Who is buying the ISIS oil? And who is paying them?

    Take those who are responsible for the buying and selling of oil from ISIS and parachute them into the ISIS State.

    But I expect President Obola is making a proft from this!

  6. Doreen Previn says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    The pigs are really swimming in dollars in their through. No wonder they don’t eat pigs. They are pigs.

    • Salah says

      Nov 12, 2014 at 11:31 pm

      ” No wonder they don’t eat pigs. They are pigs.”

      Cannibalism is allowed in Islam.

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/08/cannibalism-in-islam-taught-at-al-azhar.html

      • shabeer_hassan says

        Nov 13, 2014 at 5:42 am

        @Salah
        “The general basic rule in Islam is that Islam only prohibits its adherents from what is bad and harmful and permits them to consume all that is good. Almighty Allah says: “He (the Messenger) will make lawful for them all good things and prohibit for them only the foul…” (Al-A`raf: 157)

        In previous nations prior to the advent of Islam, prohibition was extended to some good things as a form of punishment because of their disobedience, as was the case with the Jews. Explaining this the Qur’an states: “Unto those who are Jews We forbade every animal with claws. And of the oxen and the sheep forbade We unto them the fat thereof save that upon the backs or the entrails, or that which is mixed with the bone. That We awarded them for their rebellion. And lo! We verily are Truthful.” (Al-An`am: 146)

        The Qur’an is clear that what humans are allowed to eat is animal meat not human meat. The Qur’an is very clear about this fact as Allah says: “And the cattle hath He created, whence ye have warm clothing and uses, and whereof ye eat.” (An-Nahl: 5) The Arabic structure of the words ‘whereof ye eat’ clearly explains that it is only the meat of livestock that humans eat, not that of humans.

        Of the above rule, the Qur’an excludes certain types of livestock and animal meat. Almighty Allah says: “Say (O Muhammad): I find not in that which is revealed unto me aught prohibited to an eater that he eat thereof, except it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or swine flesh for that verily is foul or the abomination which was immolated to the name of other than Allah. But whoso is compelled (thereto), neither craving nor transgressing, (for him) lo ! your Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.” (Al-An`am: 145)

        WHO R THE SUPPORTERS:

        2 Kings 6:26-29

        As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

        The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?” Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”

        She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”

        Jeremiah 19:9 (also Ezek 5:10)

        I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.

        Lamentations 4:10

        With their own hands compassionate women
        have cooked their own children,
        who became their food
        when my people were destroyed.

        John 6:53-56

        Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

        • duh_swami says

          Nov 13, 2014 at 6:04 am

          Allah should have been a vegetarian. The God of the Bible originally prescribed a vegetarian diet for humans. God modified that later when he noticed humans were not living up to it, so he made some meat eating legal and some not. There is a short list of what not to eat, like animals with coven hoofs, crawly things like bugs. He said humans ‘may’ eat meat, he did not say they had to.
          Nature provides two kinds of food, living food and dead food. So Shabeer, if ‘you are what you eat’, means anything, those who eat dead animals are in a lot of trouble. Allah has deceived you again Shabeer…

  7. epistemology says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    ISIS are the richest muzzies, that’s well known by now. But HamaSS second richest, I had no idea. I always thought we, the Jews were rich and funded by all kinds of sinister organisations, but obviously the muzzies out rival us. THe Somali pirates fund the Bokos. Brave new world

    • mortimer says

      Nov 13, 2014 at 2:22 am

      Money won’t help them in jannah. Going after their cash is the way to stop them. But proving Islam is false will terminate their Death Cult. Ideological warfare is the most efficient weapon we have.

    • Jay Boo says

      Nov 14, 2014 at 12:22 am

      @epistemology

      Figuratively speaking, it is a tie; both are ‘Number Two’.

  8. Arthur says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    That comes to $4,245,000 according to the article. Just think of all the good that could be done for health and technology with that amount of money.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 13, 2014 at 2:40 am

      Instead the cash goes into bank accounts for the leaders’ get-away funds and to pay for illicit arms.

  9. KiwiKaffir says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 1:51 am

    The times they are a changin’ …. This will eventually come back to bite them. I have to believe that as I’m not prepared to be a dhimmi

  10. carpediadem says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 5:02 am

    Years ago, Forbes published the financial worth of despots and dictators, including that of Yasser Arafat.

    I think it’s a great idea. We need to know this stuff and money is their business after all.

  11. John Hartley says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 5:19 am

    I hear that Malala Yousefzai has donated £50,000 to the ‘Palestinians’. So we have the disgraceful spectacle of a Nobel Peace Prize winner donating funds to a terrorist organisation. Doubtless the funds will be administered by UNRWA, commonly known as the United Nations Rockets and Weapons Agency, who are controlled by Hamas in Gaza.

  12. shabeer_hassan says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 5:31 am

    MY DEAR BROTHERS & SISTER;

    BOKO HARAM,ISIS,AL-QUEDHA R THE TERRORIST GROUP INSIDE THE MUSLIM NATION WORKING FOR WESTERN POLITICIAN/BILLIONAIRE…..ABOUT 99% OF MUSLIM AROUND THE NEVER SUPPORT THEM/AGREED THEN,THEN WHAT THE REQUIREMENT OF THESE TYPES OF ” BRAIN DEAD FOOLISH CRITICIZES ” BASED ON SOME FOOLISH PPL ……

    IF U WANT TO CRITICIZE ISLAM PLZ COME TO THE PUBLIC PLACE/HERE & BRING THE SCRIPTURE EVIDENCE FOR IT…….DON ‘T WASTE U’R VALUABLE TIME FOR IGNORANT/FOOLISH DISCUSSION……

    I WILL GOING TO TEACHING SOMETHING:

    ISLAM SAYS
    17:33. and do not kill anyone which Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause. And whoever is killed (intentionally with hostility and oppression and not by mistake), We have given his heir the authority [(to demand Qisâs, Law of Equality in punishment or to forgive, or to take Diya (blood money)]. But let him not exceed limits in the matter of taking life (i.e he should not kill except the killer only). Verily, he is helped (by the Islamic law).
    Malik :: Book 21 : Hadith 21.3.10
    Do not kill women or children or an aged, weak person,Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees.Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them. Do not steal from the booty,

    BY THE ABOVE LAW OF QRAN EVEN A LITTLE BABY CAN EASILY UNDERSTAND THE ISLAMIC STAND FOR KILLING INNOCENT PPL

    • Linda Rivera says

      Nov 13, 2014 at 3:09 pm

      Abrogation and muslim deception! Barbaric mass murderer and huge slave trader, founder of Islam declared: WAR IS DECEPTION.

  13. tpellow says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 9:57 am

    As many ‘Jihadwatch’ supporters will know, ‘Money Jihad’ is a useful site about the global financing of Islamic jihad, and of Sharia.

    “5-year anniversary of Money Jihad”

    http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/5-year-anniversary-of-money-jihad/

  14. Linda Rivera says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    Western governments that force their people via taxes to financially support Hamas terrorist organization, are NOT legitimate governments. Legitimate governments do NOT finance terrorist organizations. They also don’t arm and train muslim terrorist organizations which the US, UK and European governments also do.

  15. tpellow says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    U.K:-

    “Woman jailed for funding Syria jihad”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30041625

  16. R Davis says

    Nov 14, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    You & I are on the same page here Robert Spencer.
    Humanitarian Aid – what a quagmire that is.
    Monies out of control if you ask me.

  17. R Davis says

    Nov 14, 2014 at 10:04 pm

    According to Jewish Press – ISIS no: 1 richest
    HAMAS no: 2 richest
    I put it to you that no: 1 richest is ISRAEL
    The whole of ISRAEL is subsidized to the tune of gazillions & has been from day one.
    Then there are donations from past generations of Jewish people from all over the world, who have been duped into believing that ISRAEL was created & a homeland for the Jewish people.
    In fact ISRAEL was created as a watch dog for British OIL interests in the Middle East. The Jewish people / European refugees were just a means of acquiring the Palestinian land.
    But – the allies won the war & there was no need for any Jews to leave Europe. And the Jews that wanted to leave, wanted to relocate to Britain & America – it was the British & American Jews that did not want them there. So the European Jews were given no choice to stay in Europe, instead they were forced to leave Europe & were DUMPED in Palestine. Most of those people left shortly after & went back home to Europe.
    Today however sanity prevails on the part of the Jewish population of the world. They have realized the scam that has been perpetrated upon them & they have ceased to donate to the Israeli oligarchs with their fat wallets & Swiss bank accounts, who lay about on the sands of French beach resorted drinking margaritas, such is their terror & disadvantageous life.
    I have Jewish friends Robert – & from childhood – who are Australian citizens first – like all other Australians – if there is trouble they call the police & things are put right.

  18. Mirren10 says

    Nov 16, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    Bugger off and take your anti-Semitic drivel over to stormfront, where you belong.

    *You* have ‘Jewish friends’ ?

    I’ll take a very large bet you don’t have any friends at all, apart from your fellow mouth breathers. 🙂

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