July 29, 2004

How Islamic "Charity" Funds Terror

Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, has a lot more background info on the Dallas-based Muslim "charity" that has been indicted for being the American fundraising arm of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization. McCarthy explores the Islamic concept of zakat (charitable giving), one of the "five pillars of Islam," and how it it leads to funding terrorism.

Because of our national chariness about critically examining anything that touches on how Islam is interpreted and practiced in the United States, the abettors of terrorism, witting and unwitting, are thus given a capacious license for mischief. The Islamists simply assert that they are "practicing their religion" by "contributing to charity"; the mainstream media, academia, and even swaths of government take these assertions at face value, as though they were consonant with Western notions; and anyone who dares question the arrangement is immediately scalded by an alphabet soup of Muslim interest groups as a baleful Islamophobe.

It's a suicidal mindset. As Tuesday's indictment demonstrates, "charitable giving" includes paying for the afore-described indoctrination in madrassas, mosques and summer camps - schooling the people who will one day kill us that they should be killing us. More importantly, these "alms" subsidize the families of suicide bombers (encouraging ever more shaheeds) and go to direct purchases of military arsenals and equipment - or, because money is fungible, free up funds that are then available for belligerent purposes.

But ... Islamic charity also funds the sucide bombings by Hamas.

Give, and Allah won't harm you - but his self-professed agents will use your money to recruit your kids into a death cult and send them off to die while murdering Jews and other infidels. I'm sorry. I just don't understand the "Religion of Peace".