Ohio Terror Charity Threatens Legal Action After Exposé
“Group admits funding Hamas terror labs, but is upset we dared to report it.” Shouldn’t the IRS lift the group 501c.3 tax exemption?
by Patrick Poole, Pajamas Media, Jan. 28, 2009
Hamas Kassam rocket
In response to our reporting, the Columbus Dispatch published an article two weeks ago by reporter Dean Narciso quoting ASAI director Ishaq Y. Al-Qutub that they are considering taking legal action against their detractors — namely, Pajamas Media:
“There has been a serious misunderstanding and misinterpretation of what we do,” he [Al-Qutub] said, adding that they eventually will consider legal action.
Is it likely that ASAI will follow through on their legal threats? Not really.
For one, Al-Qutub confirms virtually every component to our story. He admits that his organization did fund the labs destroyed by the IDF and cites a figure that $425,000 was used to build the IUG facilities. And in my initial reporting I linked to ASAI’s own website, which cites the construction of the IUG labs as one of their group’s “achievements.” And IUG’s website notes Arab Student Aid’s contributions to the school, specifically mentioning the labs named after Prince Turki. Thus, any attempt to deny the substance of our initial story is contradicted by their own stated admissions.
And it would be hard for ASAI and Al-Qutub to claim that IUG has no connection to Hamas, as IUG officials aren’t bashful about their relationship to the terrorist group. In 2006, IUG professor Jameela El Shanty told the Baltimore Sun: “Hamas built this institution. The university presents the philosophy of Hamas. If you want to know what Hamas is, you can know it from the university.” (Continue Reading this Article)
The IRS should but won’t. America is not serious about fighting today’s enemy of the Open Society.
Comment by NormanF — January 28, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
Why do we allow this vermin into our country? And to fund terrorism with impunity to boot.
Comment by Laura — January 28, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
Just what does a professor of islamic law teach? Does he give instructions on beheading, flogging, stoning and amputations?
Comment by Laura — January 28, 2009 @ 4:40 pm
We read time and again of how the Saudis are funding the spread of fundamentalist Islam throughout the world and pushing the fundamentalist Muslim and Islamist agenda on the West by:
1. funding the construction of mosques in the West, influencing choice of imam hired and what Islamist literature is available to congregants for use in the Mosque and educational purposes. Time and again we read reports of racist imams demonizing Westerners, Christians and especially Jews and the literature available does the same thing;
2. Funding Western universities to provide Islamic studies programs which as Dr. D. Pipe’s Campus Watch has discovered time and again, choose Muslim professors who engage brainwashing young minds in revisionist histories so as to see the Saudi and Muslim view of Middle Eastern history and issues involving Israel;
3. Funding various anti-Israel/pro-Muslim/Arab/Palestinian propaganda and advocacy groups that divide their time between demonizing the West and Israel and skillfully or brutishly demanding that the West accommodate their Islamic needs and wants;
4. Funding powerful lobbies in America and the EU to twist arms and use oil as a lever, a threat and a weapon to “persuade” Western leaders to the Saudi led Arab/Muslim point of view;
5. etc.
P. Poole’s article reveals that:
All these reports read over the years where the Saudis (and likely all OPEC nations) had some role to play in promoting or supporting Islamism against the West and pushing the West to accommodate Islam are for most readers a blur that leaves them with at best a general sense of Saudi complicity in anti-Western Islamist activities.
It seems it would be a worthwhile exercise if Mr. Poole or others recorded each and every instance of where the Saudis have had their hands in furthering the interests of anti-Western fundamentalist Islam and which activities have prejudiced the West in varying degrees.
Comment by Bill Narvey — January 28, 2009 @ 6:09 pm
Don’t forget misogyny, female genital mutilation, the jizya tax on dhimmis, slavery, and mindless hatred of infidels. All are part of “Islamic” law.
Comment by Bill Levinson — January 29, 2009 @ 4:32 pm