Tag: zakat

You bet it is.

“I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat”

Muselputz Hussein Obama, in his Cairo Speech 2009

Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood are among the charity’s affiliations.

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Are all charities as innocent as they seem, or are some actually fronts for more sinister activities — even jihad? That is the questionbeing raised by FrontPage Magazine about one Muslim charity, the Zakat Foundation, that reportedly has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

According to FrontPage, there are three ways you can tell if a Muslim charity is a front for jihad, and the first one lies in the identity of the Muslim thinkers the foundation promotes. For Zakat, that profound thinker is allegedly Yusuf al-Qardawi, a spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

FrontPage reports that in 2009 al-Qardawi announced his greatest wish — that before dying, even if “wheelchair-bound,” he would “shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus, I will seal my life with martyrdom.”

If an organization’s “spiritual leader” vowing his ultimate desire for martyrdom were not enough, FrontPage asserts there is yet another way to tell Zakat is a front for jihadists. Reportedly, that answer can be found in the organizations with which Zakat is associated.

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Muslim Groups Urge Obama to “Remove Legal Hurdles” that Prevent Funding…Jihad

Thanks to Creeping Sharia

It’s been almost a year since Obama committed to, and Muslims requested, making the Islamic pillar of zakat easier for Muslims in the U.S. And Obama’s Muslim constituency is losing patience.

Now that they got their man in the White House, Muslims demand that he delivers:

Zakat, as we’ve documented numerous times already, is intended to fund jihad, and Islamic charities have been proven to fund jihad. In fact, the duty of jihad is linked to zakat – or what Obama and Muslim groups in America call charitable giving.

Zakat, however, is not charitable giving in the Western sense. If it were, there are thousands of charities that accept donations and no special exemptions or change in law ordered by the president would be required. Yet, as Raymond Ibrahim pointed out in Why Muslim Charities Fund Jihad, “There is scholarly consensus (ijma`) that zakat cannot be given to non-Muslims.”

Anti-American groups in the U.S. like Viva Palestina openly raise money on U.S. college campuses for terrorist, Hamas-controlled Gaza. Code Pink has done the same in Massachusetts. Muslim groups in the U.S. advertise that they are collecting money via Paypal, and through online fundraisers. Non-U.S. websites, terrorists included, do the same.

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