Islamic Help: Aiding Hamas
On Thursday evening Islamic Help, a charity based in Birmingham, will hold a fundraising event for Gaza in London.
Guess who’s coming to dinner: George Galloway.
Here he is handing cash to Hamas in Gaza in March 2009.
Yvonne Ridley is coming too. Here she is calling for “victory to Hamas” in the Gaza war at a London demonstration in January 2009.
Although it does not appear to be have been confirmed yet, Azzam “Kaboom” Tamimi, one of London’s prominent Islamists and an open supporter of Hamas, may come as well.
Islamic Help’s work with Galloway and Ridley is nothing new. The charity took part in Galloway’s convoy to Gaza, which ended in the celebration of Hamas shown above.
Here is a cheery video of the send-off in London, where one Islamic Help man standing next to Galloway makes his annihilationist view clear: “From the river to the sea, Palestine inshallah will be free”. Yvonne Ridley’s convoy blog posts were published on the charity’s website.
In Gaza, Islamic Help is backing the reconstruction of Darul Fadilah, a facility in Rafah owned by the Islamic Society of Gaza. This is an important project for the charity. Mohammad Masood Alam Khan, Islamic Help’s chairman, has visited the facility, with Galloway.
The Society is closely linked to Hamas. Ahmad Bahr, a Hamas leader, was its secretary general from 1985 to 2004. He too is an annihilationist, as you can see from this sermon message he delivered at a mosque in Sudan in 2007:
Ahmad Bahr began: “‘You will be victorious’ on the face of this planet. You are the masters of the world on the face of this planet. Yes, [the Koran says that] ‘you will be victorious,’ but only ‘if you are believers.’ Allah willing, ‘you will be victorious,’ while America and Israel will be annihilated. I guarantee you that the power of belief and faith is greater than the power of America and Israel. They are cowards who are eager for life, while we are eager for death for the sake of Allah. That is why America’s nose was rubbed in the mud in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and everywhere.”
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The Hamas spokesperson concluded with a prayer, saying: “Oh Allah, vanquish the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them all, down to the very last one. Oh Allah, show them a day of darkness. Oh Allah, who sent down His Book, the mover of the clouds, who defeated the enemies of the Prophet, defeat the Jews and the Americans, and bring us victory over them.”
Israel bombed the Darul Fadilah site during the Gaza war, because, it said, Hamas had used it as both a firing position and a weapons depot.
Unsurprisingly, the construction of the bombed facility was partly financed by the Union of Good, an alliance of Islamic charities that has been banned by the United States on these grounds:
The leadership of Hamas created the Union of Good in late-2000, shortly after the start of the second Intifada, in order to facilitate the transfer of funds to Hamas. The Union of Good acts as a broker for Hamas by facilitating financial transfers between a web of charitable organizations–including several organizations previously designated under E.O. 13224 for providing support to Hamas–and Hamas-controlled organizations in the West Bank and Gaza. The primary purpose of this activity is to strengthen Hamas’ political and military position in the West Bank and Gaza, including by: (i) diverting charitable donations to support Hamas members and the families of terrorist operatives; and (ii) dispensing social welfare and other charitable services on behalf of Hamas.
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Funds raised by the Union of Good affiliates have been transferred to Hamas-managed organizations in the West Bank and Gaza. In addition to providing cover for Hamas financial transfers, some of the funds transferred by the Union of Good have compensated Hamas terrorists by providing payments to the families of suicide bombers. One of them, the Al-Salah Society, previously identified as a key support node for Hamas, was designated in August 2007 under E.O. 13224. The Society employed a number of members of the Hamas military wing and supported Hamas-affiliated combatants during the first Intifada.The Union of Good’s executive leadership and board of directors includes Hamas leaders, Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), and other terrorist supporters. The secretary general of the Union of Good, for example, also acts as the vice-chairman of the United Kingdom-based Interpal, which was designated in 2003 for providing financial support to Hamas under the cover of charitable activity. As of mid-2007, this official served on the Hamas executive committee under Hamas leader Khaled Misha’al.
Now Islamic Help is stepping in for the Islamic Society of Gaza. This is the kind of activity its donors are funding: a Society-run kindergarten “graduation” ceremony where little boys are dressed as terrorists.
Here’s another one, this time from al Manar, Hezbollah’s TV channel.
The aim of the Society is the perpetuation of jihadi hatred and conflict, for generations.
British charities can help to fuel this hatred, openly, and almost always without any legal or even political consequences, when it is a crime to fund Hamas from the UK.
That should change.
Comments
| 16 August 2009, 9:59 pm |
Prosecution policy and the governance of charities needs an overhaul.
Is Keir Starmer prepared to take the lead?
| 16 August 2009, 10:17 pm |
As I said in another thread earlier today
any organisation with the word Allah, Muslim, Jihad or Islam in it, is almost guaranteed to be something nasty.
| 16 August 2009, 10:22 pm |
You should be ashamed of yourselves for showing these videos. It is a cheap trick to poke fun at the mentally handicapped.
| 16 August 2009, 11:00 pm |
‘British charities can help to fuel this hatred, openly, and almost always without any legal or even political consequences, when it is a crime to fund Hamas from the UK.’
It certainly should. But with the current dilatory and spineless state of the Charity Commission it probably won’t.
| 16 August 2009, 11:22 pm |
Galloway: “…one day we can drive them (the Jews) away”
What a revolting video clip, and what a revolting little man.
| 17 August 2009, 12:11 am |
“As I said in another thread earlier today
any organisation with the word Allah, Muslim, Jihad or Islam in it, is almost guaranteed to be something nasty.”
Funny, that’s what the anti-Zionists and antisemites say about the word “Zionist”. As always with your comments, NfSA, you keep the best company.
| 17 August 2009, 12:45 am |
Can you at least protest this nonsense in person? Or will that get you arrested in Britain now? Because if it does then perhaps you’re as much as 2 years, no more, from Yellow Stars. I also have to wonder what’s stopping England’s neo Nazis from openly embracing Galloway? They may as well, as no one really seems eager to stop them, let alone point out the fact that Galloway is Goebbels or something quite like it.
| 17 August 2009, 3:20 am |
then perhaps you’re as much as 2 years, no more, from Yellow Stars.
Empress Trudy, your comments are neither witty, nor incisive: Whether you are calling for all of Iran to be used for nerve gas experiments in another thread, calling on another blog for the assassination of former MERIP, but still antizionist HRW report writer Joe Stork, or predicting here that Jews will be forced to wear yellow stars in two years if you can’t protest Hamas charities in person in the UK, which obviously anyone can, you don’t come across, as much as I’m sure you’d like to believe, as a shrewd and cutting edge commenter, but rather as an unhinged hyperbole dispenser in desperate need of some self-restraint.
If you are unable on your own to practice self restraint, and heaven knows we all can benefit from a second opinion sometimes, especially one that can forewarn us from pissing into an electric fan so to speak, show your comments to another individual whose opinion you respect before posting. Perhaps they can advise you to refrain from posting comments that reflect poorly on you.
| 17 August 2009, 5:20 am |
The Seattle Times reports that one of Hamas’ most senior members Khaled Mashaal has said “We [Hamas] are definitely not worried about the relationship with Iran or the support that Iran offers us.” He certainly hopes so, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been supplying Hamas with weapons and $150 million a year, and staunchly defends it, more so than any other country in the Middle East. All of this to a group which has carried out over a decade’s worth of suicide attacks on Israeli civilians. Mashaal has also stated that Hamas will “never recognise Israel” and seems firmly against negotiations and a peace process.
Along with the annual donation of $200m to Hezbollah, and various gifts given to other terrorists, sorry, “freedom fighters”, the government of the Islamic Republic is giving quite a hefty amount of Iran’s income to foreign groups. Still, it’s not as if the Iranian people need it, only a third of them live below the poverty line and it’s not like Iran has an opium addiction problem that affects four million people or anything…the Islamic Republic’s leaders obviously figured that $350 million dollars wouldn’t help overcome Iran’s societal ills at all…
http://observingiran.blogspot.com/2009/08/arab-iranian-and-neo-nazi-all-go-into.html
| 17 August 2009, 6:10 am |
The comments about Galloway being prosecuted should be taken seriously as should questions as to why the Jew baiting racist Abdul Rahman al Sudais was allowed into Britain when his comments are clearly in breach of several pieces of legislation.
Louis Farrakhan is quite rightly banned but maybe this is because he is not a major oil exporter and investor in Britain. Maybe some of the legal eagles out there should get their heads around how private prosecutions could be brought against both men as well the MCB and IFE for inciting racial hatred and murder.
| 17 August 2009, 8:13 am |
Galloway, I expect, is also an ardent annihilationist. When he says he wants to ‘drive them away’, he has a destination or two in mind: gas chambers, the bottom of ravines. If a BNP or National Front member honestly voiced what sentiments festered in the cesspit of his or her own heart, a hate crime would be the result. A bit of verbal economy, of course, is a sign both of Galloway’s craftiness and his cowardice.
| 17 August 2009, 8:44 am |
the last two videos are from the documentary;
Seven Palestinian Children: The true behind-the-scenes story of what Palestinian Children are actually being taught today.
| 17 August 2009, 11:43 am |
It’s a busy week for PSC inclined foodies, here is another fundraising dinner in London on Saturday 22nd Aug. Note that it is “black tie”.
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index9b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&l2_id=62&Content_ID=766
| 17 August 2009, 12:10 pm |
The last video is hilarious! All those little kids dressed up and role-playing as mullahs and soldiers of Allah. Here is another one of my favourites, The miraculous and blessed child imam, holding forth from some parallel dimension, Jannah perhaps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGc5CFwlBGU
Of course, he is preaching peace and brotherhood to all mankind, in line with true Islamic teaching (not the perverted corrupted version promulgated by those nasty Islamists).
| 17 August 2009, 1:44 pm |
So duly noted Lbnaz. I would add that when you are done apologizing to your overlords, that you contact my attorneys Sturm, Drang, Nacht, Nebel and associates to see if they can expedite a visa out of paradise for you. There’s an old Jewish proverb; “Always keep a packed bag by the door”.
| 17 August 2009, 3:36 pm |
Whatever one’s opinion on George Galloway (an elected MP it should be remembered) he certainly has not been responsible, directly or indirectly, the deaths of civilians, a charge which can be brought against many israeli politicians.
And of course George Galloway is not responsible for the collective punishment of the Palestinians.
And considering that all Israelis serve in the army, an army of occupation, it’s a bit rich to criticise Palestinians who behave in a martial way. Especially when Israel is essentially a military / nationalist state.
| 17 August 2009, 4:35 pm |
Isaac -this article is about funding Hamas, which is an illegal act in the UK despite what your political opinions may be. The fact that it goes on quite openly under the nose of the law and the politicians who made the law in the first place should be a source of shame to any law abiding person. The fact that a member of parliament -an elected MP -colludes with law breakers should upset every decent citizen. Today this flying in the face of the law may coincide with your personal opinions; tomorrow a different case may come to light which you find more objectionable.
The funding raised in the UK for Hamas most certainly has cost civilian lives in Israel, so I for one hold people like Galloway responsible for those deaths, as I do anyone who donates money or assists in its transfer to terrorist groups, including the EU.
You may also care to take note of the fact that Hamas rules the Gaza strip and that the Israeli occupation there ended four whole years ago.
| 17 August 2009, 5:50 pm |
“Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-muslim-charities-fund-the-jihad/2/
| 17 August 2009, 8:10 pm |
Can you at least protest this nonsense in person? Or will that get you arrested in Britain now? Because if it does then perhaps you’re as much as 2 years, no more, from Yellow Stars. I also have to wonder what’s stopping England’s neo Nazis from openly embracing Galloway? They may as well, as no one really seems eager to stop them, let alone point out the fact that Galloway is Goebbels or something quite like it.
One suspects that if the BNP or their Nazi fringes did get aroused it would be against the likes of Galloway for his close support of Muslims rather than his (alleged and perhaps indirect) incitement against Jews in Israel.
Let us suppose a fantasy that the BNP and their ilk were aroused into action. I believe it would be against Islamists and Muslims who would bear the brunt. The Government would have to step in and both sides in that conflict would take a hit.
Jews and Israel would be unscathed by it, certainly the BNP et al would have its hands too full.
We know that Griffin has an apparent softening towards Israel and Jews for his own political expediency and because it winds-up the Islamists and their supporters.
The tragedy is that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better and before they attract the attention that demands it gets fixed.
What puzzles me is why these fund-raisers for a terrorist organisation don’t get arrested.
| 17 August 2009, 11:33 pm |
And of course George Galloway is not responsible for the collective punishment of the Palestinians.
He’s been there, ‘Palestine’ (by which I mean the Gaza Strip, no place called Palestine actully existing), on at least one occasion. That – having that angry little Marxist turd in one’s vicinity – sounds like the worst kind of punishment I can think of.
In April, after Galloway’s return from Gaza, I asked when he would be arrested for his clear violation of the law. What’s the delay?