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US taxpayer money going to Islamic charity with ties to jihad terror groups

Jun 24, 2018 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are so many jihad-linked charities.

“Report: Taxpayers’ Money Going To Islamic Charity Group With Ties To Terrorist Groups,” by Eric Lieberman, Daily Caller, June 23, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

One of the largest Islamic charities in the world has financial ties to several terrorist organizations, according to a report obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Islamic Relief, the highly influential international nonprofit, receives funds from the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, for example, which was founded by Al-Qaida terrorist and “Bin Laden loyalist” Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani, the report says. Islamic Relief is also accused of financially supporting Hamas, the militant and political Islamist organization regarded by much of the international community as a terrorist group.

And Americans are helping foot the bill, according to the Middle East Forum (MEF), a conservative think tank based in Philadelphia that investigated and published the report. In the last 10 years, MEF says taxpayers from western countries have provided $80 million to Islamic Relief, which allegedly has a close relationship with networks of the Muslim Brotherhood, also considered by many to be a source of Islamic terrorism despite claims of violence denunciations.

A representative for the American arm of Islamic Relief told TheDCNF that MEF is trying to build conspiracies just based off of the notions that one Muslim happened to speak to another at some point in time.

“Islamic Relief has operated as a top-rated humanitarian organization for 25 years working to deliver relief and development in a non-discriminatory, dignified manner to vulnerable individuals in over 40 countries around the world,” Sharif Aly, CEO of Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA), said in a statement provided to TheDCNF. “IRUSA abides by strict standards of neutrality and impartiality in carrying out its overarching humanitarian mission.”

Islamic Relief says it works with several legitimate, accredited fellow charities and government agencies around the world, like FEMA, USDA, Red Cross and HIAS, a Jewish refugee resettlement charity.

The latter group and Islamic Relief teamed up most recently to provide humanitarian and legal assistance to refugees in Greece.

“Islamic Relief USA is honored to be partnering with such an esteemed and effective organization like HIAS to protect refugees who are in great need of assistance,” Islamic Relief USA President Anwar Khan said in a statement published in January of 2018. “Our shared values have always been to help some of the most vulnerable populations around the world. With recent incidents of people not gaining access to essential services, and many having their rights violated, we will work to put a stop to these disturbing trends and promote the legal rights of all refugees.”

Nevertheless, MEF’s investigation also seems to reveal several examples of anti-Semitism — if not directly but by association — from top officials of Islamic Relief.

“It received over $700,000 of taxpayers’ money during the Obama administration,” Sam Westrop, author of the MEF report, told TheDCNF. “And now, under the Trump administration, public officials continue to speak at its events and legitimize it as a charitable institution. But this institution’s officials continue to promote some very uncharitable ideas: hatred of Jews, support for extremist ideologies, and praise for terror.”

MEF says Islamic Relief officials have “dined at the White House” and assumed positions as advisers within the U.S. Department of State.

And it’s not just public support, as corporate foundations and individual donors have provided the group with more than $4.3 million in roughly the last 17 years, according to MEF, with the largest single donation of $1.4 million coming from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

MEF lists a number of those highest up in the organization and some of their actions, which includes connections to religious figures who advocated for the killing of Jews and homosexuals, or similar advocacy themselves.

“Examples include Abdullah Hakim Quick, who claims that the Islamic position on homosexuality is ‘death’; Haitham Al-Haddad, who describes Jews as ‘pigs and apes’; and Abdul Nasir Jangda, who defends sex slavery and advocates killing apostates,” the section of the executive summary titled “hate preachers” reads….

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  1. St. Manuel II Palailogos says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    How lovely.

  2. No Muzzies Here says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 1:13 pm

    So we are already paying the jizya.

  3. Bob Carrillo says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 1:14 pm

    And, just where do you think that the Multi-Millions of Dollars STOLEN (Hundreds of Millions) from Minnesota Taxpayers ANNUALLY, have gone?

  4. Robert Chidester says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 1:31 pm

    Is Anyone Trying To Get This Information To President Trump?

  5. shoehorn says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    ‘He knoweth that there may be (some) among you in ill-health; others travelling through the land, seeking of Allah.s bounty; yet others fighting in Allah.s Cause, read ye, therefore, as much of the Qur’an as may be easy (for you); and establish regular Prayer and give regular Charity; and loan to Allah a Beautiful Loan.’
    http://www.islam101.com/quran/yusufAli/QURAN/73.htm

  6. Indiana Tom says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 8:40 pm

    MEF says taxpayers from western countries have provided $80 million to Islamic Relief, which allegedly has a close relationship with networks of the Muslim Brotherhood,
    “Examples include Abdullah Hakim Quick, who claims that the Islamic position on homosexuality is ‘death’; Haitham Al-Haddad, who describes Jews as ‘pigs and apes’; and Abdul Nasir Jangda, who defends sex slavery and advocates killing apostates,” the section of the executive summary titled “hate preachers” reads….
    This is the real problem. The best thing to fight Islam in the West is to defund them. They really are not that powerful on their own. The West just keeps on giving them oxygen and fuel.

  7. somehistory says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    It is illegal for any money to go to fund terrorism, for any money to go to any group that is engaged in any kind of warfare against this country.

    It doesn’t matter that they have been doing this for “25” years, or that they work with legitimate groups like the Red Cross or FEMA.

    In the past, investigations have found criminal enterprises using legitimate businesses as a front and to launder money gained illegally. This group, however old and wherever they may be found, should be investigated and shut down when the evidence is all in. Then prosecute.

  8. gravenimage says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    US taxpayer money going to Islamic charity with ties to jihad terror groups
    …………………

    Zakat–often mistranslated as “charity”–specifically goes to fund violent Jihad.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 24, 2018 at 9:19 pm

      But few Westerners understand this.

    • Brian hoff says

      Jun 25, 2018 at 9:00 am

      Not true at all. Make up by Islamoprobic organization. It like the false far rightwinger make up conspiracy about than pizza place being than child sex ring run by Hillary Clinton in the basement of the pizza place. When the Washington DC police investigation they found the pizza place have no basement which end the investigation like there.

  9. Berengaria says

    Jun 25, 2018 at 12:46 am

    So after 9/11/2001, when we donated Money to Red Cross to help the NYC survivors, etc., & instead, found out later the Red Cross decided to give the money to “Muslim OutReach” Programs, we were probably helping “Islamic Relief” & other Terror Related Organizations.
    I believe Bill O’Reilly had the Top RC Honcho on his show for a response & was told that once, you give your money to RC, RC DECIDES WHO RECEIVES MONEY, NOT YOU.

  10. David says

    Jun 25, 2018 at 6:17 am

    We all need relief from Islam, big time!

  11. David says

    Jun 25, 2018 at 6:23 am

    ‘Islamic Relief says it works with several legitimate, accredited fellow charities and government agencies around the world, like FEMA, USDA, Red Cross and HIAS, a Jewish refugee resettlement charity.

    The latter group and Islamic Relief teamed up most recently to provide humanitarian and legal assistance to refugees in Greece.’

    Just a guess, but would the refugees in Greece be muslim?

  12. Vicky says

    Jun 25, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    Ten thousand protesters should show up outside this building demanding it be shut down and the terrorist allies inside arrested or deported – Islamic Relief P.O. Box 22250 Alexandria, VA 22304 1-855-447-1001 donorcare@irusa.org media@irusa.org

  13. TWG says

    Jun 26, 2018 at 12:28 pm

    Don’t forget barack hussain’s first apology tour to Cairo, when he told his moslem brethren that he was going to make it easier to pay zakat. zakat is NEVER used to aid non-moslems, by the way.

    And as for the klan they proclaim to work so closely with, HIAS, they’re nothing more than a terrorist front group. Ann Corcoran has kept a lengthy record of their crimes and money laundering schemes. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/?s=hias

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