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European Commission strips funding from UK-based charity Muslim Aid

Oct 5, 2017 9:48 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The European Commission intends to suspend all payments to Muslim Aid. The revelation comes after New Europe’s uncovering of over 14 million Euro of Humanitarian Aid financing to Muslim Aid, a UK-based charity that has among other things, been banned in Israel for fundraising for Hamas, an organisation recognised as a terrorist organisation by the European Union.

Despite the fact that Muslim Aid is banned in Israel as a funder of Hamas, “the European Commission clarified that, ‘the concerns regarding Muslim Aid of which the Commission has been informed of are not in any way related to allegations of financing terrorism.’”

Odd, particularly that “Muslim Aid has admitted funding organisations closely linked to the banned terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”

The EU Commission’s vagueness about its decision to suspend payments to Muslim Aid resembles the prevalent routine avoidance whenever issues of jihad arise.

“European Commission to suspend all payments to Muslim Aid, OLAF examining issue”, by Kassandra, New Europe, October 2, 2017:

The European Commission intends to suspend all payments to Muslim Aid. The revelation comes after New Europe’s uncovering of over 14 million Euro of Humanitarian Aid financing to Muslim Aid, a UK-based charity that has among other things, been banned in Israel for fundraising for Hamas, an organisation recognised as a terrorist organisation by the European Union.

Responding to New Europe, a European Commission spokesperson confirmed that “the Commission has already notified Muslim Aid of its intention to suspend all pending payments and in line with contractual obligations is currently waiting for Muslim Aid’s reply to the suspension”.

Despite the fact that Israel considers Muslim Aid a fundraiser for Hamas, the European Commission clarified that, “The concerns regarding Muslim Aid of which the Commission has been informed of are not in any way related to allegations of financing terrorism.”

This suggests that the grounds on which the Commission has called for the suspension of funding to Muslim Aid is on different grounds. The Commission was vague – but told New Europe that “The Commission has taken measures to prevent EU taxpayers’ monies from being unduly spent or diverted.”

In a letter dated 22 September to New Europe, after our initial publications, the CEO of Muslim Aid wrote that, “Our Charity is categorically not being investigated for terror ties or any misappropriation of funds. It is therefore incumbent on you to remove your article from your website with immediate effect as it is wholly untrue.”

Muslim Aid has even more problems, as the European Antifraud Office, OLAF, told New Europe that they “are aware of reports regarding possible irregularities involving European Commission Humanitarian Aid managed by Muslim Aid.” As a result, OLAF is currently conducting a preliminary assessment as to whether or not to launch an in-depth investigation into Muslim Aid’s use of EU funding……

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 9:54 am

    Why on earth are taxpayer funds “given” to any charity?
    This makes charitable bodies dependent on “knowing the right people”.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 5, 2017 at 12:05 pm

      Why give public money to fund JIHAD AGAINST THE COUNTRIES THAT GAVE THE MONEY?

    • kathleen T Quinlan says

      Oct 8, 2017 at 11:29 pm

      excellent!

  2. Jack Diamond says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 10:32 am

    Founded by Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and the Muslim Council of Britain and Yusuf Islam served as chairman for many years before forming another charity, Small Kindness, which is nothing more than a name change.

    It’s always been dirty. Not just dirty with Hamas but in Bosnia and with al Qaeda, and in Bangladesh and Somalia and Sudan, too. In 2002 Muslim Aid was linked by Spanish police to Al Qaeda activities . They accused the group of using their funds for recruiting Mujahideen (Al Qaeda) fighters for Bosnia.

    Yusuf Islam’s close friend Abdul Malik Muhajid was tied to al Qaeda’s Benevolence International Foundation in Bosnia. Muslim Aid has been investigated for funding militants in Bangladesh and one of its trustees was Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, found guilty of murdering 18 Bangladesh intellectuals in the 1971 war.
    (http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/293)

    Decades later, the EU “suspends” funding, but not for reasons of terrorism. That has never bothered them.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2017 at 11:06 pm

      Thanks for the information, Jack. Not surprises there.

  3. Tom says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 10:48 am

    What the EU now refusing to pay the Jizya tax to muslims? Oh my, whatever next ? Actually recognizing that Islam is not the religion of peace and that Jihad is a result of Islamic teachings.

    There may just be hope for Europeans yet.

  4. salim says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 10:54 am

    What? Why the E U paid money to this organisation in the first place?
    Jihad always benefits from money to Islamic charities.
    Having said that, I must admit I myself paid them once but that was back in the 1980s when I was naive and Muslim.

    • Tom says

      Oct 5, 2017 at 1:39 pm

      Welcome to the world of common sense Salim good to have you as a fellow traveller in these very interesting times.

      We were all young and naive but many of us outgrew the naivete and became adults. “If a man isn’t a socialist at 30 he doesn’t have a heart, if he isn’t a conservative at 50 he hasn’t a brain” Edmund Burke

  5. mortimer says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 12:04 pm

    DUPES, SITTING DUCKS, CHUMPS, FISH, MARKS, SUCKERS, PUSHOVERS for the old IT’S AN ISLAMIC CHARITY … Zakat … a RELIGIOUS charity you know!

    Well, part of ZAKAT goes to pay for JIHAD! For WEAPONS! For military UNIFORMS! For jihad TRAINING! For BOMBS!

    Western elites who refuse to learn the JIHAD DOCTRINE, TAQIYYA DOCTRINE and ZAKAT DOCTRINE are CULPABLY NEGLIGENT!

  6. Nigel GFF says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    Yep, ‘follow the money’. Set the IRS on ’em, ‘death and taxes’ know no phobia.

  7. Jayell says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 4:07 pm

    ‘Muslim Aid’ is a rip-off of ‘Christian Aid’ (a long-established genuine charity which actually does do good and helps people in all parts the world regardless of politics or religion). ‘Muslim Aid’ even used similar graphics (type face, etc.) in their public presentation. Like the ‘Red Crescent’ organisation (‘Red Cross’ rip-off), ‘Muslim Aid’ is part of their sly global infiltration strategy, aping western organisations within western society to give an impression of being high-minded and respectable with a view to being seen as part of the establishment – before eventually taking the place over. However, when you look closely at what they actually do (the ‘legitimate’ bits, that is) you find that – true to type – they actually only help their own kind; but they won’t admit it, as I discovered when I emailed them and told them as much and got such righteous indignation back. They even plagiarise Christian intellectual property to advance their confidence trickery, as in a ‘Love They Neighbour’ campaign they ran in London a few years ago. I emailed their organiser and told him that that phrase and concept belonged to the Christian Church and had no basis in islam; and that he deserved to be sued for breach of copyright, or whatever. I didn’t get a reply. How odd.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2017 at 11:08 pm

      All true, Jayell.

  8. Gilli says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 5:35 pm

    Hallo from Germany, refusing the paymant for the Muslems? That will have consequences, I bet!
    They See all payments as a Kind of Tax Or Fee. You know, infidels have to pay to get permission To live together with the real sons and daughters of Allah. So called gizyia

  9. gravenimage says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    European Commission strips funding from UK-based charity Muslim Aid
    ………………..

    *Good*. It should not surprise, though, that the money from this “charity” was going to fund a group like Hamas.

    “Zakat” is often translated as “charity”, but it is more likely to fund violent Jihad than to go for anything we would recognize as charity.

  10. Denise Rogow says

    Oct 6, 2017 at 5:52 am

    THIS is why we boycott halal-certification! The certification taxes/jizya fund terrorism! Boycott Halal!

  11. John Forbes says

    Oct 6, 2017 at 8:06 am

    HALAL has always been used to fund JIHAD & Mosque Building & the building of Madrassas !
    The brotherhood has managed to CON GOVERNMENTS into getting the Westerners to have almost all food declared HALAL making western Democracies fund the centers that PLOT democracy;s destruction !

    The biggest issue the WEST has currently is dealing with the LEFT & the COWARDS in their own political Parties !

    We all need to start by STOPPING any SPEECH or PLATFORM that states: ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE ! & VIOLENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM !!

    Once we stop the OFFICIAL LIES we can defend our societies ! BUT NOT before we do this !!

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