“The underlying logic is that the truth of the claims about IRC do not matter, only their impact on the organization. Well, sometimes the truth hurts, as well it should.”
Yes, but in this Age of Absurdity, the truth increasingly doesn’t matter.
“Islamist Charity Silences its Critics in Canada, the Fight Continues,” by Dexter Van Zile, Focus On Western Islamism, June 15, 2023:
Islamic Relief Canada (IRC), a steady contributor of funds to the Islamist charity, Islamic Worldwide Relief (IRW), scored a victory in its ongoing effort to protect itself and its UK-based affiliate from legitimate scrutiny and criticism. The victory comes in the form of a settlement with prominent counter-Islamists in Canada who had previously warned government officials of IRC’s support for IRW, which in turn gave money to Palestinian organizations that appeared to serve as Hamas proxies.
In light of IRC’s victory, Canadians who write or talk about the problem of charitable donations being used to fund terrorism overseas could very well lose their homes — not because the problem doesn’t exist — but because speaking about the problem is “Islamophobic.”
As part of the settlement announced on June 9, prominent counter Islamists in Canada including…researcher Tom Quiggin signed a “clarification” admitting that they did not exercise sufficient due diligence in their writings about IRC, further declaring that it was not their intention to suggest that IRC “supports terrorist groups, has an Islamist agenda, or is a ‘front’ or ‘sham’ organization.” The remaining signatories included Tahir Aslam Gora[,] who immigrated to Canada from Pakistan in 1999 after receiving death threats from Islamists for his criticism of the Taliban, YouTuber Joe Hazelton who had interviewed Quiggin in 2018[,] and Benjamin Dichter, a colleague of Quiggin’s.
As part of the settlement to a $2.5 million lawsuit filed by IRC in 2018, the defendants affirmed that “it was NEVER their intention to claim or assert Islamic Relief Canada, in any way, engaged in nefarious or improper conduct.” They also agreed to remove— and ask others to remove —the “defamatory statements” from the internet. (Full Disclosure: The Middle East Forum, FWI’s parent organization, was a recipient of a letter asking that an interview with Mr. Quiggin be removed from its website. The Forum has not complied with the request.)
IRC declared that it was the target of an “Islamophobic” misinformation campaign in a press release announcing its victory and that the IRC is “a respected, purely humanitarian Canadian organization” with “a track record of delivering aid in some of the most difficult and dangerous contexts across the world.”
Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC, amplified this message in its coverage of the settlement, portraying Quiggin as beyond the pale of legitimate discourse in Canada by highlighting his involvement in “truck convoy” protests against the policies of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau….The implication of CBC’s coverage was clear — the IRC gave a bunch of right-wing kooks the drubbing they deserved, good riddance to them.
Predictably, CBC’s coverage steered clear of the main allegation leveled at IRC and its parent organization, IRW, in a 132-page document which precipitated the 2018 lawsuit and which IRC is trying to scrub from the internet with its demand of the plaintiffs that they contact others who have published its findings and ask them to remove the information.
The allegation is pretty direct and simple: by sending money to Islamic Worldwide Relief, some of which comes from Canadian taxpayers, IRC helped fund Hamas proxies. It was this allegation that Quiggin…and other defendants repeated in numerous interviews. Instead of dealing with this allegation, CBC dismisses the Quiggin Report as a “long, winding document [that] packages in a pseudo-academic format conspiratorial references to an ‘Islamist cancer’ and ‘globalist beliefs’ within the federal government.”
If the CBC wanted to discredit the notion that by sending money to the IRW, the Canadian charity was ultimately providing material support for terrorism, it would have a tough time finding evidence to do so in the legal complaint IRC filed in 2018. The complaint acknowledges that IRC is “affiliated with IRW.” In recounting IRC’s relationship to IRW, which it describes as a “non-governmental organization based in the United Kingdom,” the complaint states that the Canadian charity provides money to the umbrella organization on an “individual contract basis.” In supporting IRW projects, the complaint states, “IRC raises funds that are used all over the world to fund projects aimed at, among other things, preventing disease and early death, ensuring that children are able to attend school, and protecting the health, dignity and safety of women.”
That’s fine as far as it goes, but there’s a huge problem. By kicking up funds to IRW, almost £29.8 million in 2021, the IRC is sending money to an international charity that has been deemed a terror-financing organization by Israel and the United Arab Emirates. And while we’re at it, IRW is generally regarded a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization that seeks to impose a theocratic system of governance in countries throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world….
Interestingly enough, the IRC’s 2018 complaint declares that by merely speaking about these problems highlighted above, IRC’s critics encouraged their listeners to believe that the Canadian charity endorses terrorism and Islamic extremism, supports an “Islamist ideology,” “violent activities or causes,” and provides material support to terrorist organizations. The underlying logic is that the truth of the claims about IRC do not matter, only their impact on the organization. Well, sometimes the truth hurts, as well it should….
somehistory says
Soon, it will be this way everywhere on earth where mozlums have infiltrated, invaded, interloped, to the extent that they *own* the governments, the judges, the courts, the press.
Everyone who wishes to tell the Truth about islam and mozlums, better do so now while they still can without “losing their homes” and being jailed for telling Truth.
Of course mozlums fund terror. Without funding, there would be a lot less as it takes money to build bombs, buy plane tickets and train tickets, and all of the other things mozlums use to murder.
Rarely says
It was a settlement and not a judicial decision. If the allegations could be proven there would be no need for a settlement and none would have happened.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If one side – the islamic one – was flush w/ cash, while the other side – the critics – was running low, the latter may have thought it prudent to settle. Hardly implies that the latter was lying, or guilty of defamation or any of that
Rarely says
It may well have been true–just without proof. Without proof it’s a loser.
E T says
I.e. Emergency Act
Chyna election interference
Vaccines – Unvaccinated Doctors and nurses not allowed in hospitals.
Canadian woman denied life saving operation because she is not vaccinated even though all mandates are dropped.
Yusuke Murakami, a professor at Tokyo University expresses alarm over the findings of SV 40 promoters in Covid-19 jabs. “The Pfizer vaccine has a staggering problem”. roughly speaking, the promoter causes increased expression of the gene. The problem that the sequence is present in a well-known carcinogenic virus. There should be absolutely no need for such a carcinogenic virus in a vaccine.
It is essential to remove the sequences. However, Pfizer produced a vaccine without removing the sequence. That is outrageously malicious. This kind of promoter sequence is completely unnecessary for the production of the mRNA vaccine. In fact, SV 40 is a promoter of cancer viruses.
Microbiologist, Kevin McKernan, a former researcher and team leader for the MIT Human Genome Project— has discovered massive contamination in the mRNA Covid-19 shots, including simian virus 40 promoters.
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi supports the DNA contamination McKernan’s team has found in Pfizer and Moderna mRNA shots. Bhakdi, reviews how and why the shots can trigger autoimmune diseases.
Dr. Steven E Greer noted, This means that governments and drug companies “have misled the world to a far greater extent than previously known”. It would mean the “so-called” vaccines” are actually altering the human genome and causing permanent production of the deadly spike protein, and this internal production of the spike protein protector would, in tern, trigger the immune system to attack its own cells.
It well may be true even with proof.
Canada where there are a hell of a lot of conspiracies happening and not by the citizens.
Larry Estavan says
Here is a link to a pdf file entitled “Islamic Relief Worldwide Building a Reputational Risk Management”
““Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) has often faced disproportionate hostility and scrutiny because of its Islamic faith and framing. However, it faced a new level of threat in 2014 when it was designated as a terrorist organisation or front – first by Israel, and then by the United Arab Emirates.
It responded to these designations swiftly and as robustly as possible, but the organisation felt that it was constantly on the back foot during this fight. Three years after the designations, prompted by fresh reputational risks, IRW decided to adopt a more proactive approach, and invested in developing a new strategy to manage reputational risk.
The strategy was backed with new infrastructure and resources to ensure they were in a stronger position, and more firmly on the front foot. This stood them in good stead when they faced reputational threats further down the line; thanks to their strategy they were able to move beyond firefighting.””
https://icscentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/20-04-08-Islamic-Relief.pdf
In other words, they spread around a lot of money, hired public relations firms and have contacts within the media, and elsewhere to pooh-pooh any negative news about the group.
“IRW was determined to defend itself strongly against these untrue allegations and slurs. It engaged with funders and key partners – such as its regulators, main bank, umbrella body, host government and sympathetic media – to make the case for why the designations were ill-founded, and challenged the designations via legal processes in both Israel and the UAE. ”
They did not refute any of the accusations against the group, they just covered up any bad news with money, money, money, and more money, buying up influence wherever they could.