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U.S. Continues to Fund
Hamas-Linked Charities
It seems
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is handing out tax
dollars like the money is growing on Islamic terrorist-designated trees.
The Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) – banned by both Israel and the UAC
for funding Hamas -- was recently awarded a $270,000 grant by the Obama
Administration for their “relief” work in Kenya. This is
outrageous.
To make matters worse, our government is vetting organizations they award
grants to in the same manner in which they vet refugees coming into the
United States from ISIS-supporting countries.
Feel safe yet?
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Feds Give $270K Grant to Islamic
Charity with Alleged Ties to Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood
Chuck Ross, The Daily Caller
 The Obama administration recently gave a $270,000 grant to
an Islamic charity that has been banned by Israel and the United Arab
Emirates because of alleged financial ties to the terrorist group Hamas
and to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided the funds last
month to the U.K.-based Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) for its work in
Kenya, according to the federal spending database USASpending.gov.
The funds are earmarked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
global health security partner engagement initiative.
The program is aimed at fighting infectious diseases and promoting
“global health security as an international priority,” according to the
CDC website.
But IRW has been at the center of other security concerns.
In 2014, Israel and United Arab Emirates banned IRW, which is
headquartered in Birmingham, England, from operating within its borders
alleging that the group supports and funds Hamas, the Muslim
Brotherhood’s military arm in Palestine.
Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon alleged in July 2014 that IRW’s
chapters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were being run by members of
Hamas.
“The IRW is one of the sources of Hamas’s funding and a means for raising
funds from various countries in the world,” Israeli defense minister
Moshe Yaalon said in a July 2014 statement. “We do not intend to allow it
to function and abet terrorist activity against Israel.”
In 2006, the Israeli Security Agency arrested Iyaz Ali, a Pakistani-born
British national who worked as project director of IRW’s operations in
the West Bank.
“He worked to transfer funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions
and organizations, including the Al Wafa and Al Tzalah associations,
which have been outlawed in Israel,” reads a 2006 statement from Israel’s
defense ministry. Ali also admitted that he had worked and cooperated
with Hamas operatives in Jordan.
“The IRW provides support and assistance to Hamas’s infrastructure,” the
statement continued, alleging that IRW’s operations are “controlled and
staffed by Hamas operatives.”
“The intensive activities of these associations are designed to further
Hamas’s ideology among the Palestinian population.”
In Nov. 2014, United Arab Emirates added IRW to its list of designated terrorist
organizations. HSBC, the London-based bank, also severed its relationship
with IRW, citing the alleged terror ties.
IRW has strongly denied any associations with Hamas or terrorist
activities. The Obama administration has favorably cited the group’s work
on international relief issues. IRW is also allied with numerous other
foreign governments and large philanthropies.
But Ryan Mauro, who tracks terror-linked group as a national security
analyst for the Clarion Project, says that IRW’s links to Hamas and
Muslim Brotherhood should, at the very least, disqualify it from
receiving any federal funding.
“IRW’s Muslim Brotherhood ties should rule it out of the running for
government grants. This is simply common sense,” Mauro told The Daily
Caller.
The CDC grant isn’t the first federal grant IRW has received this year.
As the Washington Free Beacon reported in December, U.S. Agency for
International Development gave IRW a $100,000 stipend, also for work in
Kenya.
Mauro also noted that more than 50 members of Congress support new
legislation labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. One
supporter of the measure if Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
“Don’t taxpayers deserve to have their money go to a humanitarian group
without such risks?” Mauro wondered. “If you want to give it to a Muslim
group, then give it to one without an Islamist history so we can build up
better alternatives.”
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