by Sam Westrop
Many foundations failed to respond or refused to stop their donations.
Make sure to read the Daily Caller's lead feature piece from Friday
about an MEF campaign to identify and challenge millions of dollars of
donations from major American corporate, community and independent
foundations to prominent Islamist groups with long histories of links to
terror and extremism.
In
a nutshell: since 2000, 51 corporate foundations, 8 community
foundations, 1 donor-advised fund, and 9 private foundations have given
an astounding $5.6 million to seven Islamist groups:
Islamic Relief USA, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the
Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of North America
(ICNA), ICNA Relief (the latter's charitable wing), the Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR).
MEF
sent the foundations evidence of these Islamist groups' extremism,
which included examples of anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-Western and
pro-terror hate preachers given platforms by the seven organizations.
But
as the featured article notes, many foundations failed to respond or
refused to stop their donations. In fact, most of the foundations that
did reply told us that recipients need only possess an active 501c3
status to qualify for a donation.
As
Islamist Watch coordinator David Swindle explains: "The side effect of
this is that foundations end up funding all sorts of racist and
anti-Semitic hate groups. Under these foundations' standards, for
example, an eligible 501c3 would be the New Century Foundation, a
notorious white supremacist group. Islamist groups like the Council on
American-Islamic Relations and Islamic Relief fall into this same
category of utilizing charitable status to obscure long histories of
promoting and funding extremism and hate."
By
funding these seven Islamist groups, some of America's most important
companies are helping extremists cement their grip over American Islam,
to the detriment of moderate Muslims everywhere.
We're
continuing to campaign against funding for these Islamist groups. You
can help us by also reaching out to these foundations and urging them to
stop funding hate. And please sign our petition against the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which, since 2008, has given $330,524 to CAIR and Islamic Relief.
Sam Westrop
Source: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2017/11/now-revealed-millions-of-foundation-dollars
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