U.S. Tax Dollars Go
Towards Charity with Terrorist Ties, 12/11/15, by Natalie
Myers : Guest writer
An
aid organization funded by U.S. tax dollars has been accused of having plans to
give $100,000 to an Islamic charity with alleged ties to terrorism. The U.S.
Agency for International Development, known as USAID, recently announced plans
to award a federal grant of $100,000 to the Islamic Relief Worldwide charity in
2016 to go towards various foreign projects, although no further detail was
provided.
The
announcement raised outrage among some who criticized USAID for financing an
organization that was tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hamas terror
group. In fact, the Islamic Relief
Worldwide charity has been banned by countries such as Israel and the United
Arab Emirates after ties to these extremist groups were discovered.
According
to the Israel National News, investigations revealed in 2014 that the Islamic
Relief Worldwide was using donations to pay terrorists and provide funding for
attacks.
Samuel
Westrop, a terrorism analyst, conducted research and uncovered more extremist
ties branching from this US-funded charity. Westrop stated according to reviews
of the charity’s accounts, thousands of dollars have been donated to a charity
founded by a leading al-Qaeda terrorist.
Why
is the U.S allowing taxpayers’ dollars to go towards a charity that most likely
has connections to jihadists and terrorist groups overseas and when will it
stop? “Until we act decisively to cut off the financial pipeline to these
terrorist groups by putting more of these people in prison, they are going to
continue to raise money that goes into the hands of killers,” according to one
U.S. law enforcement official who spoke to terrorism analyst, Patrick Poole in
2011.
Even
more shocking is the fact that in Washington, Congress is seeking to officially
label the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, while at the same time
allowing our tax dollars to go towards keeping it alive.
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