Jihadi Charities Expand in Indonesia
On March 17, 2020 · In Indonesia, ISIS, Islamic charities, Islamic State (IS), Terror Funding, Uncategorized
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 […]
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
On June 14, 2018 · In ICNA, Islamic charities, Islamic Relief, Terror Funding, Voice of America, 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 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 […]
An Example of Disinformation on “Islamic Banking”
On December 4, 2017 · In Interest, Islamic Banking, Islamic charities, Jihad, Kashmir, Lashkar e Taiba, Taqiyya, Zakat
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 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 […]
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 […]
Linked below is an analysis of how Boko Haram raises money to finance its operations. The only disagreement we would have about this article is the reference to “fake” charities. The concept of charity in Shariah is quite different from what the rest of the world is used to. The charities are not fake, but […]
The British government has officially asked the UK Charity Commission for a detailed report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s possible charitable work in the United Kingdom as well as overseas. Back on April 1st, British Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned an investigation of the Brotherhood’s philosophy, activities and impact on British interests at home and abroad. The investigation, which will also review […]
Mo Farah, a British Olympic gold medalist, who resides in Portland, Oregon, has a charitable foundation that has been linked to a controversial Islamic cleric who has urged British Muslims to wage holy war. Farah, who was born in Somalia, set up the Mo Farah Foundation in 2011 to help people affected by drought in the Horn of […]
Chairman of Charity Commission says it will come down hard on charities found funnelling cash to extremist groups. William Shawcross, who took on the role at the Charity Commission in October 2012, said it was “ludicrous” that people with convictions for terrorism or money laundering were not automatically disqualified from setting up charities or becoming […]
Michael Curtis, author of Jews, Anti-Semitism and the Middle East, recently posted an important article on American Thinker about a subject which we have covered extensively on SFW for years…the role of Islamic charities in terrorism financing… http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/telling_the_truth_about_terrorism_and_islamic_charities.html
Yet another Islamic charity in Great Britain is being investigated for ties to an Islamic “hate preacher” named Sheikh Yasser al-Habib is known as the “Mullah of Fulmer.” Al-Habib set up Fadak TV – which he uses to broadcast his message around the world – after raising £2million to buy a spacious hall on the outskirts of the […]
An investment fund called the Mashreq Arab Tigers Fund has announced that it will convert to becoming a Shariah-compliant fund and change its name to the Mashreq-Al-Islami Arab Tigers Fund. This isn’t particularly newsworthy, but the article linked below affords us a teaching moment. That’s because the operators of the fund recognize ahead of time that, in […]
Recently, Chris Taylor of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, gave a half-hour lecture on zakat and Islamic charity, with a focus on India. But as part of his lecture, Taylor gave background on the system of zakat. Sadly–and probably predictably given the Center’s funding […]
Police have made eight arrests as part of an investigation into whether funds donated to help people in Syria is being stolen and used to finance terrorism. The money, which came from four UK-based charities, was taken by police who believed it could be used for criminal or terrorist activities instead of paying for food […]
The military web site Strategy Page has an interesting synopsis of the largely successful efforts to counter jihad in Bangladesh. In that synopsis, the folks at Strategy Page detail the role of Islamic charities in supporting and spreading jihad: JMB (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh) survived largely through the efforts of local and foreign Islamic charities, including al […]
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