Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of raising funds in UK

What’s interesting about this story is not that Egypt convicted five Muslim Brotherhood members, but that they were convicted of raising money in the U.K. under the guise of Islamic charities. via Egypt convicts 5 Muslim Brotherhood members.

CAIRO — Five senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been convicted of money laundering and raising funds abroad, Egypt’s official news agency said Saturday.

MENA reported that the Supreme State Criminal Security Court on Saturday sentenced the sole defendant in custody, Osama Suleiman, to three years in jail. The four other defendants — one of them a Saudi national — were tried in absentia. They received jail terms of five-to-eight years.

The ruling cannot be appealed.

The men were charged last April with raising money through conferences in England under the pretext that the funds were for Islamic charities.

There are many Muslim Brotherhood entities in the U.S. as well. They regularly hold conferences and raise money under the pretext of Islamic charities. Just sayin’.