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.
“Gaza imam gets 1 year in jail for smuggling funds from Malaysia to Hamas,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Beersheba District Court on Sunday sentenced a Gaza imam to one year in jail in a plea bargain on a conviction for smuggling funds from Malaysian charities to Hamas.
The Southern District Attorney’s Office said it had encountered various evidentiary difficulties in the case, leading to the plea deal with reduced charges and a light sentence relative to the original charges.
In February, Imam Walid Div, 43, was indicted for a range of offenses related to helping finance Hamas, including traveling from Gaza to Egypt numerous times since 2013 en route to deliver religious sermons in Malaysia.
According to the indictment, while in Malaysia, Div was asked by Malaysian charities Aman Palestine and Mapim to smuggle funds into Gaza for Hamas.
In 2013, he smuggled $3,000 on behalf of the Malaysian chapter of Aman Palestine to Hamas.
Div also worked with many of the same charities to smuggle funds to Hamas from Malaysia on other occasions, including contact with the Aman Palestine chapter in Gaza.
Neither Div nor the Malaysian charities are officially associated with Hamas. But the charities include members of Hamas who use them as a front to raise terrorism funds for Gaza’s rulers….
angiesaad says
It’s not surprising, for as long as Muhammad was selling slaves in exchange for the purchase of weapons for jihad .
keith O says
Well, somehow this sort of thing is of no surprise.
On the bright side, his crimes were discovered, he was charged and convicted then sent to jail, if only for a year.
But, at least this is a small step in the right direction. Can only hope that he is one of many to be dealt with.
Akki says
Bro jihad is on peak in india tahir Hussain is a leader of riots in new Delhi. The Muslims riots killed 50 plus hindus in one day data
Steve says
Bro jihad is on peak in india tahir Hussain is a leader of riots in new Delhi. The Muslims riots killed 50 plus hindus in one day data
gravenimage says
You are grimly correct about the horrible death toll in Delhi, Akki and/or Steve.
Here’s more on this ugly subject:
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/07/812193930/delhi-riots-aftermath-how-do-you-explain-such
gravenimage says
Muslim cleric smuggles funds from Islamic charities in Malaysia to Hamas
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So much of Islamic “charity”–Zakat–actually goes to fund violent Jihad–as this Muslim cleric knows.
mortimer says
Part of ZAKAT (Islamic charity money) may be given to JIHADISTS and their families, but 0% of zakat may be given to the dirty KUFAAR … so nothing in zakat is good for the kafir.
Zakat is intrinsically useless or BAD or DANGEROUS for the kafir.
Islamic charities are supremacist in nature and should be BANNED in Western countries. Muslims believe that it is their religious duty to PAY FOR JIHAD TERRORISM against the dirty KUFAAR.
Keys says
All Kufaars need to read Mortimer’s post, because zakat is one of the so-called five pillars of Islam and not for infidels, although exceptions can probably be made if it advances the cause of Allah.
Today some Islamic scholars say zakat can be given to Infidels, but only after all Muslims are taken care of (which is impossible because of the poverty in Islamic countries*). Shouldn’t the oil rich Muslim countries be taking care of this through zakat instead of building mosques all over the world advancing the cause of Allah ?
QUR’AN
“Alms are for the poor and the needy, and those employed to administer the (funds); for those whose hearts have been (recently) reconciled (to Truth); for those in bondage and in debt; in the cause of Allah; and for the wayfarer: (thus is it) ordained by Allah, and Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom.”
— Qur’an, Sura 9, ayat 60
Couldn’t that last line be “… and Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom and deceit.” ?
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Traditionally, Islamic scholars agree that distribution of the zakat should first be paid to the collectors of the zakat who are supposed to distribute the remaining zakat among 7 other categories including these 2:
“Those fighting for a religious cause or a cause of God, or for Jihad in the way of Allah by means of pen, word, or sword, or for Islamic warriors who fight against the unbelievers but are not salaried soldiers.”
“To persuade those sympathetic to or expected to convert to Islam (Al-Mu’allafatu Qulūbuhum), recent converts to Islam, and potential allies in the cause of Islam.”
That means, if the collector/distributor is honest and does not take too much for himself like Ayatollah Khamenei, 12.5% goes to jihad and 12.5% goes to promote Islam, i.e. about 25% to advance Islam in violent or no-violent ways.
Documentation in Wikipedia article ZAKAT.
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The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has a web page for donating zakat including a handy zakat calculator !
https://zakat.unhcr.org
We trust the UN to distribute the zakat to the poor and needy after “administrative expenses” are paid, of course. /sarc
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* In a 2014 study, Nasim Shirazi states widespread poverty persists in Islamic world despite zakat collections every year. Over 70% of the Muslim population in most Muslim countries is impoverished and lives on less than US$2 per day. In over 10 Muslim-majority countries, over 50% of the population lived on less than $1.25 per day income, states Shiraz.[91] Zakat has so far failed to relieve large scale absolute poverty among Muslims in most Muslim countries.
* Islamic scholars and development workers state that much of this zakat practice is mismanaged, wasted or ineffective.[88] About a quarter of the Muslim world[90] continues to live on $1.25 a day or less, according to the 2012 report.[88]
—– from Documentation in Wikipedia article ZAKAT.
ZAKAT like Socialism/Communism is a failure, but their leaders are enriched.
Keys says
In regard to the United Nations UNHCR collecting zakat through its website, no doubt Muslims are in charge of this.
So, I am supposed to believe, when these are 3 categories of zakat required by the Koran, that they are not spending much or any on:
1. administration of funds (the distributors of zakat are to be paid first)
2. “those fighting for a religious cause” or “Jihad in the way of Allah”
3. “To persuade those sympathetic to or expected to convert to Islam, recent converts to Islam, and potential allies in the cause of Islam.”
And I am supposed to believe that they not giving any of this zakat to Islamic charitable organizations, or groups of refugees that support these 3 categories as required by the Koran.
And I am supposed to believe that there are no groups of refugees whose purpose for being a refugee is to spread Islam in infidel lands.
And I am supposed to believe that there is no deceit in Islam.
newsupplements says
It worries me that the UK GOVERNMENT is giving away millions of our public money to jihad Muslim charity’s because they describe themselves as religious! which the government allows because it embraces Islam despite overwhelming evidence from history and the present that there is something very wrong with the ideology of these Islamic groups
OLD GUY says
He didn’t smuggle that money he simply made a transfer from one account to another. Islam is a political dictatorship using “religion” as its cover of operations. And just like any other dictatorship they use intimidation and violence to control the population they rule over. Islam’s goal is one world rule and domination of mankind.
eaglelasereyes says
Islam, muslims should be charged with Crimes Against Humanity, they won’t stop!