Thursday, January 15, 2009
A press release from Citizens for Peace and Tolerance:
Concerns raised about potential Hamas fundraising event in Boston
Boston, Mass - 01/15/2009
Dennis Hale, President of the Boston based Citizens for Peace and Tolerance (CPT) - an interfaith group of Christians, Muslims and Jews - warned today that an upcoming Muslim American Society of Boston (MAS Boston) fundraising event advertised to donors as humanitarian aid to Gaza may instead channel funds to the terror group, Hamas.
"The January 17th fundraiser is collecting money for the Gaza operations of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), a group previously accused of transferring funds to Hamas," Hale said.
Hamas is an Islamic supremacist organization that belongs to the Palestine branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is considered to be the origin for most of the modern jihad movements. Hamas is dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state and uses terrorism and murder to achieve its goals. It is an openly genocidal organization that has explicitly and continuously called for the murder of all Jews worldwide. The founding charter of Hamas proclaims that peace will come to Earth only when all the Jews are killed:
" ... as long as Islam does not take its rightful place on the world arena everything will continue to change for the worst...The Last Hour [redemption] won't come until the Muslims fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them..."
"Virtually the entire civilized world, from Barack Obama to the government of Egypt, agrees that Hamas's refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist and renounce terrorism against Israeli civilians is the root cause of the horrible violence in Gaza and Israel," said Hale. "For the Muslim American Society to raise funds for a Hamas-linked charity in the heart of Boston is an affront to the traditions of liberty and tolerance on which this city was built."
Hale pointed to two clear financial connections between the IRW charity and Hamas:
- Islamic Relief Worldwide is a founding member of the Union of Good - designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as a terrorist entity. The Union of Good functions as an umbrella coalition for a network of Islamic charities led by the radical cleric Yusuf al Qaradawi. Treasury documents state: "The leadership of Hamas created the Union of Good in 2000 in order to facilitate the transfer of funds to Hamas."
- In 2006, IRW's Project Director in Gaza, Iyaz Ali, was arrested by the Israeli Security Agency and confessed to providing material support for Hamas as part of his work with IRW. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office asserts that "The IRW's activities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip are carried out by social welfare organizations controlled and staffed by Hamas operatives."
"This is not the first time that MAS Boston, which has become the public face of the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), has generated controversy over its ties to Hamas fundraising," said Hale. Several MAS/ISB leaders, past and present, helped raise funds for the Holy Land Foundation - a recently convicted Hamas charity founded in the U.S. by Hamas second-in-command Mousa Abou Marzouq.
- MAS National founder Jamal Badawi, who is also a Trustee of the controversial Roxbury mosque, is an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against the Holy Land Foundation. Joining him on the co-conspirator list is Abdurrahman Alamoudi, founder of the ISB, presently in jail on terrorism charges.
- The current president of MAS Boston, Hossam al Jabri, is listed in FBI trial evidence as a large donor to the HLF.
- Since 2000, ISB/MAS have transferred thousands of dollars to the Holy Land Foundation and at least $168,000 to Islamic Relief Worldwide.
Citizens for Peace and Tolerance first raised concerns about the ISB and MAS in 2004, predicting that the organization's massive new building in Roxbury would be used to radicalize Boston's historically moderate Muslim community and to give aid to radical causes worldwide. "It gives us no pleasure to be proven correct in this matter," said Hale.
PRESS RELEASE 01/15/2009 Boston, Mass.
For Immediate Release
Citizens for Peace and Tolerance (CPT)
Contact: Dennis Hale
(781) 799-7245
cpt@hatefreeamerica.org
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And allah will help the muslims. HA HA HA HA
Few things to say;
The fundraiser “as you mentioned” was done by interfaith groups of Jews, Christians and Muslims, to fund humanitarian aid to the Gazans. Too bad you don’t believe that
Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinian civilians get killed, thousands are bleeding
to death, tens of thousands are uprooted and wandering in vain in search of some
shelter to protect them. The Israeli army bombs hospitals and UNRWA relief
centers, and, defying international convention, it uses white phosphorus bombs
against civilians.
People, Go to www.irw.org and www.masboston.org and find out who they are, contact them, ask questions, and pay a visit. Find the truth; you don’t want someone like the journalist to feed your brain false information.
When will you clean your heart from hate and ignorance Mr. Hale? Why don’t you try to get a life, talk about education, real peace, the environment….
Good luck to all.
Find a charity and a Muslim group not associated with Hamas. That's a start. It's not hard.
We will never have real peace as long as people like you spread the lies you do in your second paragraph.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7838618.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gEBO-6VRjs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
The naked truth...
If you want to help, you must keep your distance from Hamas. Simple. If you want to help make sure scenes of civilian suffering do not repeat, you must not assist Hamas in their cynical use of civilians as a weapon of war and propaganda. Difficult for you.
Mary, please direct us to a Muslim Peace group.
A Muslim counterpart to Israeli "Peace Now", a "Salaam Now".
A Muslim group that is against the racist, dehumanizing, genocidal Hamas Charter of 1988, the same year as the bombing of Pan Am 103.
A "Muslims for Peace and Justice" that demonstrates against hamas, that demonstrates against hizbullah.
A Muslim Peace group that is against the firing of rockets and mortars into Israel.
Will hamas or hizbullah or al qada permit such a Muslim Peace group to exist, or would the Islamofascists declare the Muslim Peace group to be "Zionists" and kill them?
For the fifth consecutive year, Islamic Relief USA has been awarded with a 4-star rating by Charity Navigator, the largest charity evaluator in the United States.
“Islamic Relief, the aid group, has done a wonderful job in Darfur”
- New York Times, April 17, 2005
“[Islamic Relief ] is vital to the strength of the Gulf Coast communities you serve and essential to making them whole once more [after Hurricane Katrina].”
-Senator Edward Kennedy, Mar. 9, 2006
“Islamic Relief outperforms most charities in America.”
-Charity Navigator, January 30, 2007
“Some 10,000 aid workers have come to Darfur, from dozens of agencies. One of the earliest was Islamic Relief. It is funded largely by Muslims in the West. And because many staff are called as much by faith as professional skill, Islamic Relief works in places many secular groups find too dangerous.”
-PBS, May 13, 2005
“I have nothing but the greatest admiration for the way in which Islamic Relief responds to these dreadful disasters. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Islamic Relief and other organizations like them.”
-Prince Charles of Wales, Oct. 11, 2005
“Islamic Relief also benefits from a reputation of trustworthiness, said mainstream aid workers, as well as other Muslim ones. Islamic Relief has helped victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami in addition to people in the Middle East.”
-Chicago Tribune, August 29, 2006
Since Muslims in Muslim Darfur ENSLAVE NON-MUSLIMS (Christian and animists) "Islamic Relief" went to Muslims Sudan to AID MUSLIMS who ENSLAVE non-Muslims.
Thanks for quoting the prime dhimmi in the UK, Prince (let me be your tampon) Charles, as celebrating "Islamic Relief". The Prince seems to forget who bombed London on 7/7/05, forgets who bombed Pan Am 103, who attacked airports in explosive packed SUVs, who celebrates "The Magnificent 19" in the Finsbury Park mosque.