Sunday, February 6, 2011

Rachel Ehrenfeld: Radical Muslim Victories Are Well-Funded

Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director of the NY based American Center for Democracy, and author of Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed - and How to Stop It. This is a combined and updated version of articles that were published on January 13 & 14, 2011 by Family Security Matters


Excerpts:

For the past five decades most funding to MB-affiliated organizations around the world – especially those involved directly in terrorist activities – has come from oil rich countries in the Middle East. However, Hamas, the MB Palestinian branch, designated as a terrorist organization by the E.U. and U.S., seems to derive large sums of money from the EU, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), of which the U.S. is the largest contributor. Individual countries also donate directly to the PA and Gaza (i.e. Hamas). The U.S. also aids the PA and Gaza through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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The UN lists only the Taliban and al Qaeda as terrorists. The May 2009 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report includes UNRWA's admission that it does not screen prospective staff or aid recipients for ties to Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Jihad (IJG), or other local terrorist groups.
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However this did not seem to disturb UNRWA’s former Commissioner Peter Hansen, who in October 2004 told the Canadian Broadcasting Cooperation “I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll, and I don't see that as a crime."
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Britain’s willful blindness to the MB’s subversive agenda, and its acquiescence to its vitriolic propaganda is not merely a local disease. MB’s vast reach extends to other countries as well. Unfortunately the U.S. seems to be following in the footsteps of England, unwisely ignoring the growing influence of the MB in its borders.
Despite renewed attention in recent years on MB-affiliated groups operating in the U.S. radical Islamic organizations disguised as “mainstream Muslims” are now presenting their Islamic agenda to the government and appear on a regular basis in the media. These groups include the Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), the Muslim American Society (MAS), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA).
CAIR’s terror ties have been confirmed in numerous court cases, the most recent of which is the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) case of 2009, which exposed HLF as a Hamas fundraising front.
During the HLF trial, the FBI identified CAIR as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian Committee, which was tasked with funneling financial support to Hamas, and obstruction.