posted by Christopher W. Holton Zakat Foundation of America has been conducting a PR campaign promoting its work associated with the Wuhan virus pandemic. What they don’t want the world to know as much about is the organization’s disturbing ties to terror…as a terrific investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism and the Middle East […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton The Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission has 19 active investigations under way into terrorism financing according to the Australian Associated Press. The Commission has previously conducted and completed 34 such investigations. Seven charities have been “deregistered” as a result of those investigations. Long-time readers of SFW will recall that terrorism […]
Jihadi Charities Expand in Indonesia
posted by Christopher W. Holton East Asia Forum has an important article posted on the proliferation of charities supporting Jihadist groups in Indonesia. This has been a problem for well over a decade now as Indonesian security and intelligence services battle terrorists both kinetically and in the financial realm. Here are the highlights of the […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the jihadist terrorist group that launched an attack on an Indian army outpost in Kashmir that has put India and Pakistan on the brink of full-scale war, has a long history of waging violent jihad. It turns out it also has a history of acquiring and running seemingly […]
A leaked report allegedly produced by the Tunisian Commission for Financial Analysis (CTAF) reveals an investigation into a prominent leader of Islamic Relief – the international Islamist charitable network founded in the U.K. and named by the United Arab Emirates as a terrorist organization – over concerns that monies given to Islamic Relief’s Tunisian branch […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton A religious group found to have illegally cleared and developed a rural block north-west of Sydney has been stripped of its charity status following an investigation by the national charities regulator. Mustapha Kara-Ali is the imam of Diwan Al Dawla, an Islamic-influenced guild which runs a religious retreat on a […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Questions are being raised about possible irregularities regarding charitable organizations associated with the controversial, anti-Jewish activist Linda Sarsour. Writing for the Israellycool.com blog site, journalist Hen Mazzig has produced a detailed, exhaustive analysis of those charities’ handling of donations, particularly those which were meant to signal interfaith aid to Jewish […]
The Times: Controversial Muslim charity sets up branch in Ireland
Posted by Christopher W. Holton lslamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), a Muslim charity that has been branded a terrorist organisation by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has established a registered branch in Ireland. The international charity, founded in 1984 in the United Kingdom, insists it has no links to terrorism, but it was banned in 2014 […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton The United Kingdom’s Charity Commission, which regulates charitable organizations in the UK, has released a statement condemning the former management of Muslim Aid for failing to safeguard against funding “illegal groups.” Curiously, Muslim Aid folded not long ago and his been replaced by a new organization of the same name. […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton The Times of London has broken the story that the Amazon Smiles charitable giving program funneled donations to an Islamic charity with ties to Jihad. Under the Amazon Smiles program, Amazon donates 0.5% of transactions to designated charities. Two of the charities listed in the Amazon Smiles program were Muslim […]
Disinformation from the Voice of America About Zakat
by Christopher W. Holton I was very sad to have to write this article. During much of the 1980s, the Voice of America, via its shortwave radio broadcasts, provided a valuable service to America by beaming powerful messaging behind the Iron Curtain, giving hope to millions of people enslaved by communism. Today the VOA is […]
posted by Christopher Holton Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain accuse Qatar of financing “extremist” groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. The four nations sent Qatar a list of 59 individuals and 12 institutions that allegedly finance terrorism and receive support from Qatar. Among the most prominent names on the list is Abdul […]
posted by Christopher Holton Regular readers of SFW know that one of the chief concerns surrounding Shariah-compliant finance is the issue of Islamic charities funding jihad. We have posted dozens of articles on the subject over the years. This posting is but the latest example. A Briton named Umar Haque has been sentenced to prison […]
posted by Christopher Holton Here we have yet another example of an Islamic charity that has come under scrutiny due to improprieties. While there is certainly no indication that there is a terror nexus this time, the nature of the impropriety is in fact legal… The CRA characterized those shortcomings as “serious.” It said the […]
posted by Christopher Holton Bloomberg News has an article posted about the situation in Pakistan that has mostly escaped the attention of the West in general and Americans in particular. Under pressure from the Trump administration, Pakistan has made a great show of cracking down on “extremism.” But the persistent presence of jihadis in Pakistani […]
Why It’s a Bad Idea for Western Financial Firms to Get Involved in Zakat
by Christopher W Holton The issue of zakat is one that is central to the concerns about Shariah-compliant finance, but concerns about zakat should extend far beyond Shariah finance alone. Zakat is a real threat because it is doctrinal in Islam and no figure, organization or body in Islam has the authority to change it. […]
Saudi Arabia Criticized for Funding Salafist Islam in Southeast Asia
posted by Christopher W Holton It has been a well-established fact that Saudi Arabia has spent tens of billions of dollars over the past 30-40 years or so proselytizing its brand of Sunni Islam, known as Wahhabism, but properly categorized as Salafism. It is also a well-established fact that Salafi Islam has given rise to […]
An Example of Disinformation on “Islamic Banking”
posted by Christopher W. Holton Linked below is a rather typical example of the taqiyya that is used to promote Shariah-compliant finance, in this case Islamic banking. Practitioners of Shariah-finance are fond of defining it simply as “interest free.” There is much more to Shariah finance besides the interest-free aspect. First of all, the term […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Islamic Relief Worldwide, or IRW, a United Kingdom-based humanitarian relief agency with a U.S. chapter, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. federal grants in recent years, including $370,000 for the fiscal years 2015 and 2016. Quite naturally, IRW wants to keep the spigot of federal dollars flowing, […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Charities in the United Kingdom are regulated by a governmental agency known as the Charity Commission. Over the years, the Charity Commission has found itself investigating multiple Islamic charities for a variety of irregularities, including supporting jihad. Now we have another example. The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton A New York jury has ruled that the U.S. government can seize a Manhattan skyscraper worth as much as $1 billion from an Iranian-American charitable foundation accused of violating sanctions against Iran. The U.S. federal court on June 29 ruled that Alavi Foundation, the majority owner of the 36-story office […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton US insurers are suing two Saudi banks, companies affiliated with Osama bin Laden’s family, and several charities for at least $4.2 billion over 9/11 attacks, as compensation for damages. This is not a frivolous suit that the oil-rich Saudi interests will be able to stymie easily as it is being […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton More and more online outlets are waking up to the fact that Islamic charities fund jihad… Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) was in November 2014 designated a terrorist group by the UAE, the second Middle Eastern country to do so. In June 2014, Israel declared IRW a financial conduit to Hamas, […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Authorities in Dubai are concerned about the ultimate destination of charity donations. Who would know better? A British-Australian dual national living in Dubai who wanted to raise money for Afghans who fled their country’s long war has been detained for weeks over promoting a charity, his supporters said Friday. Scott […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton The Islamic charity Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD) has been cited for ties through the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to HAMAS, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization… http://drrichswier.com/2016/08/14/florida-muslim-charity-helping-hands-for-relief-developments-terrorist-ties/
by Christopher W. Holton Long-time readers of SFW know that the subject of Islamic charities funding Jihadist terrorism is one of the topics we have covered most closely and frequently over the years. Scores of Islamic charities worldwide, including right here in the USA, have been implicated in funding jihad. You can read all about […]
by Christopher W. Holton Here is a report that vividly illustrates the profound differences between charities in the West and “charities” in the Islamic world. Not only do Islamic charities routinely fund Jihad, they also operate Shariah courts. In the case linked below, we have Jamat ud Dawa, a Pakistani charity that has already been […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton An official investigation of British prisons has revealed that the senior level of the British prison service approved having Muslim prisoners fundraise for an organization which is funding the jihadist terrorist organization HAMAS. Muslims jailed in at least four prisons were encouraged by Muslim chaplains to take part in sponsored fundraising activities for the […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton There could scarcely ever be a more glaring example of treacherous U.S. policy than what we see here. Earlier this week, the Jihadist terrorist group HAMAS, which dominates the Palestinian movement, attacked an Israeli transit bus in an Islamikaze attack eerily reminiscent of such attacks in the 1990s when HAMAS […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton In a significant and stunning development, banking and financial services giant HSBC, which in the past has been cited for violating sanctions against Iran, has taken the bold, admirable move of cutting ties to one of the world’s largest Islamic charities, Islamic Relief, due to fears that funds controlled by […]
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