From Creeping Sharia:
Canadian Muslim youth group tied to al-Qaeda stripped of charitable status
Posted on March 8, 2012 by creeping
via the National Post
A Canadian Muslim youth organization has been stripped of its charitable status after a Canada Revenue Agency investigation linked it to a Saudi-based group that allegedly financed Islamist terror campaigns.
An audit of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth revealed the charity had developed ties to a number of organizations that allegedly helped fund al-Qaeda operations around the world and failed to comply with a number of standards required for charities to maintain their status.
In a warning letter to the Toronto-area organization last summer, CRA director-general Cathy Hawara said “our analysis of the Organization’s operations has led the CRA to believe…[it] was established to support the goals and operations of its parent organization, located in Saudi Arabia, which has been alleged to support terrorism.”
WAMY, known in Canada for running Islamic camps and pilgrimages for youth, was stripped of its status on Feb. 11. It failed to keep proper books and records, maintain a specific charitable purpose and distinguish itself from parent organization WAMY (Saudi Arabia), which had been alleged to support terrorist activity, the CRA audit said.
“The audit findings did not reveal any apparent separation between the activities of WAMY (Saudi Arabia) and WAMY, with all related financial and operating positions being made by WAMY (Saudi Arabia),” it reads. “This leads to a reasonable inference that WAMY has little or no independent function; therefore it cannot be concluded that it is carrying out its own charitable activities for which it is registered.”
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Information about WAMY’s alleged terrorist funding and extremist education materials has been around for years.
In 2003 testimony submitted to the 9/11 Commission, Investigative Project on Terrorism Executive Director Steven Emerson said that WAMY actively linked itself to several jihadi fronts through educational programs, funding, and other forms of material support.
The group’s American branch incorporated in Falls Church, Virginia in 1992 by Osama bin Laden’s brother, Abdullah bin Laden. FBI agents raided that office in 2004.
WAMY invited Hamas political head Khaled Mishaal as a featured guest for its 2002 “Muslim Youth and Globalization” conference in Riyadh, and provided the organization with millions in funding during the last intifada. The Pakistani branch offered training and fighters for the jihads against Soviet Afghanistan, as well as Kashmir, a province disputed by India and Pakistan. Members were also trained to fight in Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, and the southern Philippines.
It also produced educational materials extolling jihad and preaching violence against Jews and other infidels, which were used by branches across 6 continents. Another WAMY document, “Military Lessons in the Jihad Against the Tyrants,” was found in the possession of a participant in the first World Trade Center bombings and in the London apartment of embassy bomber Khalid al-Fawwaz. The document states that an Islamic global state will not be formed through peaceful means, but “through the written words and the gun, through the word and the bullet.”
As noted here just the other day, the Saudi’s fund everything.
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