Masood Alam Khan witnessed the other side of the huge international humanitarian effort in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Among groups actively engaged in bringing relief to the victims were terrorist organizations. They used every opportunity to solicit support for their cause and recruit new members. Khan, the chairman of Islamic Help, a United Kingdom-based charity, said it was a wake-up call for him and other charity representatives who witnessed it.
As terrorist organizations continue to raise funds and try to gain legitimacy through charities and other means, the U.S. government and Arab and Muslim-American communities are stepping up efforts to facilitate charitable giving while preventing abuse by terrorists and their supporters.
Can you say stupidity? As terrorist organizations try to raise funds & gain legitimacy through charities, the U.S. government is basically paving the way for these charities – WTF! Muslim charities will even try to get the seal of approval from the BBB.
The initiative “provides an avenue for American-Muslim charities and nonprofit institutions to familiarize themselves with and adhere to the highest standards of governance and accountability while reassuring donors that resources are being directed toward their intended and stated purposes,” said Farhana Khera, executive director of the group, in an August 13 news release.
The initiative will not address, however, another major issue with which the government and Muslim fundraisers struggle: how to carry out charitable work overseas in areas affected by terrorist activities without giving terrorists inadvertent support.
Wait, so the initiative adheres to the highest standards and reassures donors resources are directed as stated, but Muslims can’t reassure the U.S. government that they won’t inadvertently, or advertently be giving support to terrorists? Can you say stupidity?
Patrick O’Brien, assistant secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing, said social welfare and charitable efforts run by al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah and similar groups are intertwined with terrorist activities in some places. This helps them gain support, recruit members and radicalize vulnerable populations.
Would Patty O’Brien know stupidity if it smacked him in the face? Charitable efforts run by al-Qaida, Hamas, Hebzo and similar terrorist groups are intertwined with terrorist activities? Say it ain’t so O’Brien. More poverty drives terrorism drivel.
O’Brien said Treasury’s terrorist financing guidelines call on U.S. charities to take precautionary measures in such high-risk areas, particularly by vetting their local employees, partners and grantees. (See “Treasury Issues Anti-Terrorist Guidelines for Charities“)
But Rob Buchanan, managing director for international programs at the Council on Foundations, a Virginia-based association of grant-making groups, says the vetting process is unlikely to be effective as terrorist groups change their names, structures and features with ease.
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U.S. Treasury, Muslim Charities Intensify Dialogue on Safe Giving.
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August 23, 2008 at 10:38 AM
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him….”
The so-called Haditha (sacred teaching) of Hate is one of the most notorious writings in Islam. It instructs Muslims to kill Jews. One would think that Muslims would try to keep this phrase secret from the rest of the world.
Not so the Muslim Student Association at the University of Southern California, which has even put the haditha up on its campus website. Now, as a result of protests lodged by David Horowitz’s Freedom Center and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the university’s Provost, Chrysostomos L. Max Nikias, has ordered the MSA to remove the haditha from its website.
I applaud the action by USC. Finally, one university (hardly a conservative bastion) has summoned up the courage to put the MSA in its place, albeit belatedly. This haditha should have been struck down as soon as it appeared. This cannot be considered free speech. It is a call to murder, plain and simple. If this is what USC’s MSA subscribes to, it reveals them to be nothing more than radicals and vicious bigots. This kind of language has no place in American society. Similarly, those Muslims who subscribe to this “teaching” have no place in our society. Decent Muslims who want to gain a place in our society must turn away from this kind of language.
It would be nice to see my own university, (UC-Irvine)take similar measures against the MSU (Muslim Student Union). It would be refreshing to hear UCI’s leaders tell the MSU that speakers who come to our campus and call Jews “low-life ghetto dwellers” (Imam Mohammed Al-Asi), glorify acts of mass murder by suicide bombers in Israel (Amir Abdel Malik Ali) and displays that depict Jews with hooked noses, thick lips and leering gazes are not going to be tolerated any longer at UCI. Don’t hold your breath. The cowards who run UCI have, up until now, not summoned up the courage to confront the MSU and their vicious speakers. In fact, the MSU receives funding from UCI in the form of money taken from student tuition fees. The May 2008″Palestine Awareness Week” was funded by UCI to the tune of $6,500, according to Frontpage Magazine. Thus, UCI supplies funding to MSU to bring in hate mongering speakers and erect racist, anti-Semitic displays that denigrate Jews.
So it will be up to the rest of us to bring the public’s attention to what is going on in academia. David Horowitz’s Freedom Center, for one, will be putting on a “Stop the Jihad on Campus Week”, which will occur during the week of October 13-17, 2008. Public attention must be brought to the actions and words of these various MSA’s across the nation. Hopefully, the public can demand that universities crack down on hate speech on their campuses.
gary fouse
fousesquawk
August 23, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Gary – why remove it? So infidels can’t find it? If it’s not removed from the Quran it won’t make any difference at all…and, if you read Jihad Watch you’ll note that it’s still on other parts of the site.
20 years from now know infidel will know that verse existed…and hence, there will be no chance for infidels to really know the enemy.
It’s the equivalent of suggesting if we stop using terms like jihad and mujahid that somehow the problem will go away…it won’t, in fact it will only make it worse for infidels as they’ll have no evidence, no facts to point toward.
August 28, 2008 at 2:31 AM
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