ACTION ALERT: Urge Congress to Block Federal Funds to
Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW)
News from the Middle East Forum
September 7, 2017
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Dear Supporters,
At some point in
the next few hours, Congress will be voting on Congressman's DeSantis
Amendment (115-31), which will ban Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW)
from receiving federal funds. IRW is an Islamist charity with
links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. It has a long history of
promoting extremist ideology across both America and Europe. IRW claims
to have already received $704,662 of taxpayers' money.
Please call your
US Representative now. Ask him or her to support Rep. DeSantis's
Amendment #115-31 to the State & Foreign Operations Appropriations
Act (H.R. 3354).
Please share the
graphic at right via social media to spread the word.
Islamic
Relief Talking Points
1. Islamic Relief
Worldwide (IRW) is one of the most important Islamist institutions in the
world. Established in England in 1984, IRW now serves as the headquarters
for the Islamic Relief franchise, managing dozens of branches across the
world and hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. For its entire
history, IRW has been managed by Islamist operatives connected to
extremist networks in Europe, America and the Middle East.
2. In 2014, Israel banned IRW and the United Arab Emirates, a key ally of the
United States, designated IRW as a terrorist organization because of its
links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. These moves followed similar
accusations leveled against the charity in Egypt.
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Swiss banking giant UBS closed down Islamic Relief's
accounts.
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3. In 2012, the
Swiss banking giant UBS closed down Islamic Relief's accounts
and "blocked donations coming from its customers to the
charity." In 2016, it emerged that the international bank
HSBC had also closed down Islamic Relief's accounts. Both interdictions
were reportedly over terror financing fears.
4. IRW has
financial ties with a number of groups accused of terror financing. In
2004, 2007, 2009, IRW accounts revealed donations of tens of thousands of
pounds from the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, a charity founded by the Al Qaeda terrorist and
"Bin Laden loyalist" Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani, whom the Treasury
Department has named a Specially Designated Global
Terrorist. IRW's other financial partners include the Arab Medical Union
and the International Islamic Charitable Organization Kuwait, both of
which finance Hamas.[1]
5. In Gaza,
Islamic Relief has funded the Al Falah Benevolent Society, which is described by the Meir Amit Intelligence
and Terrorism Information Centre as one of "Hamas's charitable
societies." It is run by Ramadan Tamboura, whom the
newspaper Ha'aretz describes as a "well-known Hamas figure."
6. IRW Directors
have included:
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Islamic Relief
hall of shame (clockwise from top left): Ahmed Al-Rawi, Mohamed
Ashmawey, Essam El Haddad, and Issam Al-Bashir.
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Ahmed Al-Rawi, who signed a declaration in 2004 in support
of jihad against American forces in Iraq
Mohamed Ashmawey, who also served as President of the Muslim Arab Youth
Association when it organized a conference in 1995 featuring the Hamas
military leader, Sheikh Muhammad Siyam, who told the conference: "Finish off
the Israelis. Kill them all. Exterminate them. No peace ever."
Essam El Haddad, who has been since jailed in Egypt for his role in the
short-lived Muslim Brotherhood regime. The prosecution found him guilty
of passing "defense secrets" to "elements of the Iranian
revolutionary guard," and collaborating with the terrorist groups,
Hamas and Hezbollah, to "create a state of chaos" in order to
seize power in Egypt.[2]
Issam Al-Bashir, an ally of wanted war criminal, President Omar Al Bashir
(no relation). Issam Al-Bashir even served as a Minister in the Sudanese
regime during its campaign of genocide in the Darfur region.
7. IRW founder
Hany El Banna also established an umbrella organization for Islamist
charities, named the Muslim Charities Forum (MCF). The MCF is controlled
by key IRW officials. In 2015, the British government cancelled all
government grants to the Muslim Charities Forum after finding that it
"supports or is linked to individuals who fuel hatred, division and
violence."
8. Abdel Sattar
Al Melejji, a former senior member of the international Muslim
Brotherhood's Shura Council [Advisory Council], claims: "Hany El
Banna's organizations in particular are relief organizations well-known
in Europe who do real aid work. ... But ultimately the management and the
governing ideology is that of the Brotherhood."
9. IRW's Muslim
Brotherhood links disqualify it from government support. In 2015, British
Prime Minister David Cameron old Parliament: "Aspects of the Muslim
Brotherhood's ideology and activities therefore run counter to British
values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, equality and
the mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs."
10. IRW regularly
gives platforms to some of most extreme preachers from across Europe and
the Middle East. In April 2017, The Times reported that
Britain's Charity Commission – the government's regulator of non-profits
– had opened an investigation into Islamic Relief's decision to organize
a tour with Yasir Qadhi, an extremist preacher who told audiences that
killing homosexuals was part of his religion.
The Middle East Forum promotes American
interests through activist, intellectual, and philanthropic efforts.
For immediate
release
For more information, contact:
Gregg Roman, Director
Roman@MEForum.org
215-546-5406
[1] Re
IICO: Matthew Levitt, Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the
Service of Jihad (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007). Page 145.
The Canadian government has claimed the Arab Medical Union funds Hamas:
"Appendix G: International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy
(Canada)," Canada Revenue Agency, https://www.scribd.com/document/221397643/IRFAN-Canada-links-to-Hamas.
[2] "Court announces reasons behind lifetime sentence
against Morsi and death sentences against 16 MB leaders," Egypt's
State Information Service. July 2, 2015
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