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: American Islamist Charities Funding Terror in Gaza,” by Abha Shankar, IPT News, July 12, 2019:
A Gaza-based charity that ostensibly receives humanitarian funds from U.S. and Western Islamist benefactors has close ties to a designated terrorist group, a new report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) finds.Board members for the Generosity Without Limit Association (“Generosity Association”), a charitable organization operating in the Gaza Strip since 2007, either serve as operatives or have close affiliations with an umbrella group called the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). Israel declared the PRC a terrorist organization in 2006. It claims the PRC is funded and trained by Hamas. Its largest attack came in 2011, killing eight Israeli civilians and wounding another 20.
The Generosity Association is supported by several Islamist charities in the United States, France, Britain, Turkey, and Israel.
The report published Facebook pictures from Generosity Association and PRC accounts that showed food packages that Generosity Association distributed to “needy families” in the Gaza Strip during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The packages were identical to ones the PRC handed out to family members of shaheeds (terrorist martyrs) and wounded terrorists.
“It is unclear whether the humanitarian organizations abroad are aware of the close connection between the [Generosity] Association and the PRC,” the report said, adding that “an Internet search may reveal the connection and alert donors to the possibility that funds earmarked for charity are also used for supporting terrorism.”
The U.S.-based Islamist charities supporting the Generosity Association include Baitulmaal, Life for Relief and Development, and United Hands Relief.
The Israeli government accused Baitulmaal co-founder Sheikh Hasan Hajmohammad of funding a Hamas charitable organization in Jenin in 2006, the report said. Current Executive Director Mazen Mokhtar previously ran the Muslim American Society (MAS), which was established in 1993 as the Muslim Brotherhood’s American arm. In 2015, Mokhtar described suicide bomb attacks as “an effective method of attacking the enemy and continuing jihad,” the report noted.
Baitulmaal has contributed to other radical Palestinian outlets, including the AJP Educational Foundation, the fiscal sponsor of the virulently anti-Israel American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). According to the organization’s available tax records, AMP has provided $33,500 to the AJP Educational Foundation between 2011-2017.
A 2017 lawsuit alleges that the AMP and several of its activists were associated with a former Hamas-support network established to advance the terrorist group’s agenda politically and financially in the United States.
Baitulmaal is a member of the Union of Good, a charity sponsored by radical Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi and tagged in 2008 by the U.S. Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Group, an amended complaint alleges. It also lists Baitulmaal among charities that sponsor AMP conferences that serve as a platform for Israel bashers and openly approve of “resistance” against the “Zionist state.”
AMP is also one of the principal advocates of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state.
The amended complaint ties Baitulmaal to another Gaza-based charity, Unlimited Friends Association for Social Development (UFA), that “is closely aligned with senior Hamas leaders” and “openly states that it channels funds from Baitulmaal to the ‘families of martyrs of the Palestinian people.'”
“Baitulmaal has openly distributed meat to Hamas functionaries and government workers on Muslim holy days claiming that ‘it is a matter of principle for the charity to help [Hamas] officials who can’t afford to buy meat,'” the complaint adds.
Another American Islamist charity supporting Gaza’s Generosity Association is Life for Relief and Development. The charity’s CEO and board member is Hany Saqr, who is listed as a leader of the Brotherhood’s North American leadership in a 1992 telephone directory seized by federal investigators.
The directory was found in the home of Ismail Elbarasse—whom prosecutors described as the Muslim Brotherhood’s archivist in America. He served as an assistant to Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas political leader, and the head of a Brotherhood-created Hamas-support network called the Palestine Committee….
SemiDave says
The Gaza squatters (so-caled palestinians) are like a wasp nest inside the trunk of the tree that holds your tree house…
Jayell says
The ‘Generosity Association’ – doesn’t that sound nice? The embodiment of universal goodness for the benefit of all humanity, so one would think, but probably only if you’re a muslim because. of course, Unbelievers don’t really count as ‘human’. We had a similar sort of thing here in the UK with an organisation called ‘Muslim Aid’ which set it self up as a kind of clone of the long-established and respected ‘Christian Aid’ (similar name and almost identical graphic presentation on its publicity); and, like Christian Aid, it seemed to promise help and support to all the world – until you looked at its track record. Guess what sorts of people were notable for being totally absent from its list of beneficiaries? I think we weren’t supposed to notice that!
mortimer says
All Islamic charity (zakat) is partly used for jihad … or entirely used for jihad. That’s allowed by Sharia law.
But the stupid leaders of the slumbering kufaar just pretend that the Islamic crocodile is a ‘tame’ crocodile.
Many of the slumbering kufaar are awakening, however, and soon the whitewashing of Islamic terrorism will have to stop for good. People on the street have run out of excuses for Islamic terrorists. They resent them now and see Muslims are doing nothing to stop the terrorism and even approve in many instances. 15% of Muslims worldwide self-declare as being in favor of jihad organizations. That’s one Muslim out of about six who is in favor of jihad terrorism.
That should concern the most Islamo-moronic person.
Robert_k says
Jihad and Zakat go together like peas and carrots .
CRUSADER says
— or, together like infant famine and Plumpy’nut.
RonH says
There is no such thing as an Islamic Charity, I have yet to see one that actually helps anything but terrorists against no Muslims and even Muslims of other factions. When have you heard of an Islamic Charity helping flood victims or even their own people ?
ninetyninepct says
Justin Trudeau supports and donates Canadian’s money to Islamic relief. IR funds Hamas. In addition to direct funding, Trudeau finds other ways to funnel millions to Hamas so they can continue to attack Israel.
Trudeau is committing taqiyya when he pretends to make “positive” comments about Israel.
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Angemon says
Muslims involved in terrorism? I’m shocked, SHOCKED!!!!!
joanofark06 says
Don’t make me laugh! Oops, too late!
Battle says
To the tune of “Love And Marriage”
Chorus
Zagat and jihad, zagat and jihad go together like a horse and carriage.
Zakat and jihad, zakat and jihad go together like a horse and carriage.
Let me tell you brother, you can’t have one, you can’t have one, you can’t have one without the other.
jca reid says
Always the way with Mozzies. Always claiming victimhood. The US gives something like US$400Million annually to Arab countries as Aid. God knows how much European countries but it is a massive amount. No one hears of the very rich Arab countries doling out the cash. There is a very modern Refugee Camp in Saudi Arabia, probably the most modern one in the World. Can look after all the needs of at least 500,000souls. Number of Refugees there now = ZERO! It’s been ready for a number of years now but has tended to not one refugee. Personally, it’s because the migration to the West is going well. Only built as a contingency. no more……we owe these people NOTHING! Let the great Ummah, (Islamic Community), look after its own!
Anton Savarese says
Ilhan Omar’s pals.. at it again..
A_M_Swallow says
Jihad is probably not a lagal aim for charities in the West. The charity could probably be abolished and its directors punished for supporting terrorism.
If you have any suspicions report them to the police and charity regulator – The Charity Commission in Britain.