The article below reveals the extent of the stealth jihadist global network, which utilizes Islamic charities to aid in the spread of jihadist views.
It is also important to note the propaganda cover of “Islamophobia” charges used by Pakistan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) against India and the West. They portray themselves as victims while engaging in jihad plotting. The stealth jihad network expands in the West by crushing Western discussion of the jihad threat Islam, using the same “Islamophobia” victimology subterfuge that it employs against India. Stealth jihadis manipulate Western guilt about colonialism, knowing full well that Westerners are largely ignorant regarding Islam’s 1400 years of conquest, which began long before colonialism.
Jihad-enabling Islamic charities such as Muslim Aid present themselves as innocent victims and do-gooders. They shield their objectives in manner that is similar manner to the tactics of organized crime groups that use front organizations. One need only look at the exhaustive list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case. These Muslim lobbies are almost invariably tied to what appear to be charitable works.
Radical Islamism makes use of international networks of support, and relies on infrastructure closely intertwined with civil society. Today, western Islamist charities, funded by western governments and linked to international Islamist movements such as Jamaat-e-Islami, operate throughout India.
And it doesn’t stop there:
These charities have long histories of subsidising terrorism and enabling extremism. One of the most egregious examples is Muslim Aid…. Founded in London in 1985, Muslim Aid has grown into one of the largest Islamic charities in the world, boasting revenue of tens of millions of pounds each year. Outside of its headquarters in the UK, it operates branches, offices and various affiliate entities in a dozen countries across Africa and Asia, with prominent fundraising offices in Sweden and the United States as well.
Stealth jihadists routinely court politicians who are looking for the Muslim vote. They been quite successful.
“Zakir Naik, Jamaat-e-Islami and the looming threat of western Islamist charities spreading fundamentalism – India News,” by Sam Westrop, Firstpost, August 26, 2020:
Indian security services, politicians and media have recently paid particularly close attention to the danger of Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan and Kashmir, and their branches and proxies’ links to terrorist plots against Indian troops and civilians.
But radical Islamism makes use of international networks of support, and relies on infrastructure closely intertwined with civil society. Today, western Islamist charities, funded by western governments and linked to international Islamist movements such as Jamaat-e-Islami, operate throughout India.
These charities have long histories of subsidising terrorism and enabling extremism. One of the most egregious examples is Muslim Aid.
Radical management
Founded in London in 1985, Muslim Aid has grown into one of the largest Islamic charities in the world, boasting revenue of tens of millions of pounds each year. Outside of its headquarters in the UK, it operates branches, offices and various affiliate entities in a dozen countries across Africa and Asia, with prominent fundraising offices in Sweden and the United States as well.
From the beginning, Muslim Aid’s officials have been tied closely to Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). In 2013, a Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal sentenced to death in absentia one of the charity’s early leaders, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, for his role leading a JI killing squad that abducted and murdered 18 people during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.
Muslim Aid board chairmen have included Manazir Ahsan, a leading British Islamist who helped to coordinate Islamist riots in the UK against novelist Salman Rushdie over his book, The Satanic Verses; and Iqbal Sacranie, another infamous British Islamist who said of Rushdie: “Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him.”
Other Muslim Aid officials have included Manzair Ahsan, who is also closely involved with the Islamic Foundation, JI’s UK-based thinktank. His colleagues there have included former Muslim Aid official Farooq Murad, the son of Khurram Murad, who has led both the Bangladeshi and Pakistani branches of JI. In 2003, The Times reported that two Islamic Foundation trustees were on the UN sanctions list of people associated with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Terror ties
With this violence-tied management, it comes as little surprise that Muslim Aid has repeatedly been found involved with a number of terror networks. In 2010, following investigative work by British media and an inquiry by Britain’s charity regulator, Muslim Aid was found (and admitted) to have been funding a number of front organizations for the terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Muslim Aid’s terror links are not limited just to the Palestinian territories. Counter-terrorism analyst Chris Blackburn notes that Muslim Aid’s Australian branch has supported jihadist-funding organizations in Indonesia; government agencies in Bangladesh included Muslim Aid in a list of ten Islamic charities supporting Islamist terrorism; and Spanish police have declared that Muslim Aid financed jihadists in Bosnia in the 1990s.
In the United States, documents acquired by the Middle East Forum show that in 2015, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (which is tasked with stopping the flow of monies to terrorist groups) looked into Muslim Aid as a potential terror financer.
In Pakistan, meanwhile, both the UK and Pakistani branches of Muslim Aid partner openly with Al Khidmat, the “charitable” arm of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Pakistani arm. Al Khidmat publicly works with Hizbul Mujahideen, the Kashmiri militant wing of Jamaat-e-Islami and a designated terrorist group in both India and the United States.
This Pakistan branch is particularly shadowy. In 2009, it appointed a senior official of Pakistan’s infamous, terror-connected Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as chairman of its board of trustees.
Other terrorist operatives have made use of Muslim Aid’s infrastructure. In 2012, three terrorist operatives used Muslim Aid identities to raise money for a series of suicide bombings. Although Muslim Aid was apparently unaware of this scheme, Britain’s charity regulator later censured the organization for having “insufficient measures in place to monitor its spending” and activities, leading British officials to fear, among other things, that it might be “inadvertently funding a proscribed terrorist organisation.” Concerns over the charity’s management have continued to surface over the past few years.
Muslim Aid India
Despite this extraordinary array of terror links and overt extremism, Muslim Aid is active on both sides of the Line of Control in Kashmir, and well as throughout India. Although it claims to have operated a field office in the country since 2005, this was not its first appearance: a British Islamist publication from 1992 features a call for donations to “Muslim Aid – India” in the wake of the notorious destruction of the Babri Mosque in Uttar Pradesh.
Today, Muslim Aid India appears to operate primarily out of Hyderabad. But management of the charity is not exactly local. Its two leading officials, Mirza Feroz Baig and Jafer Hussain Qureshi, are involved with a string of companies and charities registered in the United Kingdom. Several of these organizations have declared addresses on incorporation paperwork registered to a single house in the English city of Birmingham, which property records obtained by the Middle East Forum show to be owned by Qureshi.
Muslim Aid’s Qureshi, it seems, has been helping for years to manage the affairs of the terror-connected international Islamist operative Zakir Naik. One of the companies previously registered to Qureshi’s address is Universal Broadcasting Corporation Limited, a key component of Zakir Naik’s network, and which serves as the umbrella organisation for Naik’s infamous Peace TV media outlets and various companies….a
It is also important to note the propaganda cover of “Islamophobia” charges used by Pakistan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) against India and the West. They portray themselves as victims while engaging in jihad plotting. The stealth jihad network expands in the West by crushing Western discussion of the jihad threat Islam, using the same “Islamophobia” victimology subterfuge that it employs against India. Stealth jihadis manipulate Western guilt about colonialism, knowing full well that Westerners are largely ignorant regarding Islam’s 1400 years of conquest, which began long before colonialism.
Jihad-enabling Islamic charities such as Muslim Aid present themselves as innocent victims and do-gooders. They shield their objectives in manner that is similar manner to the tactics of organized crime groups that use front organizations. One need only look at the exhaustive list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case. These Muslim lobbies are almost invariably tied to what appear to be charitable works.
Radical Islamism makes use of international networks of support, and relies on infrastructure closely intertwined with civil society. Today, western Islamist charities, funded by western governments and linked to international Islamist movements such as Jamaat-e-Islami, operate throughout India.
And it doesn’t stop there:
These charities have long histories of subsidising terrorism and enabling extremism. One of the most egregious examples is Muslim Aid…. Founded in London in 1985, Muslim Aid has grown into one of the largest Islamic charities in the world, boasting revenue of tens of millions of pounds each year. Outside of its headquarters in the UK, it operates branches, offices and various affiliate entities in a dozen countries across Africa and Asia, with prominent fundraising offices in Sweden and the United States as well.
Stealth jihadists routinely court politicians who are looking for the Muslim vote. They been quite successful.
“Zakir Naik, Jamaat-e-Islami and the looming threat of western Islamist charities spreading fundamentalism – India News,” by Sam Westrop, Firstpost, August 26, 2020:
Indian security services, politicians and media have recently paid particularly close attention to the danger of Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan and Kashmir, and their branches and proxies’ links to terrorist plots against Indian troops and civilians.
But radical Islamism makes use of international networks of support, and relies on infrastructure closely intertwined with civil society. Today, western Islamist charities, funded by western governments and linked to international Islamist movements such as Jamaat-e-Islami, operate throughout India.
These charities have long histories of subsidising terrorism and enabling extremism. One of the most egregious examples is Muslim Aid.
Radical management
Founded in London in 1985, Muslim Aid has grown into one of the largest Islamic charities in the world, boasting revenue of tens of millions of pounds each year. Outside of its headquarters in the UK, it operates branches, offices and various affiliate entities in a dozen countries across Africa and Asia, with prominent fundraising offices in Sweden and the United States as well.
From the beginning, Muslim Aid’s officials have been tied closely to Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). In 2013, a Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal sentenced to death in absentia one of the charity’s early leaders, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, for his role leading a JI killing squad that abducted and murdered 18 people during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.
Muslim Aid board chairmen have included Manazir Ahsan, a leading British Islamist who helped to coordinate Islamist riots in the UK against novelist Salman Rushdie over his book, The Satanic Verses; and Iqbal Sacranie, another infamous British Islamist who said of Rushdie: “Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him.”
Other Muslim Aid officials have included Manzair Ahsan, who is also closely involved with the Islamic Foundation, JI’s UK-based thinktank. His colleagues there have included former Muslim Aid official Farooq Murad, the son of Khurram Murad, who has led both the Bangladeshi and Pakistani branches of JI. In 2003, The Times reported that two Islamic Foundation trustees were on the UN sanctions list of people associated with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Terror ties
With this violence-tied management, it comes as little surprise that Muslim Aid has repeatedly been found involved with a number of terror networks. In 2010, following investigative work by British media and an inquiry by Britain’s charity regulator, Muslim Aid was found (and admitted) to have been funding a number of front organizations for the terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Muslim Aid’s terror links are not limited just to the Palestinian territories. Counter-terrorism analyst Chris Blackburn notes that Muslim Aid’s Australian branch has supported jihadist-funding organizations in Indonesia; government agencies in Bangladesh included Muslim Aid in a list of ten Islamic charities supporting Islamist terrorism; and Spanish police have declared that Muslim Aid financed jihadists in Bosnia in the 1990s.
In the United States, documents acquired by the Middle East Forum show that in 2015, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (which is tasked with stopping the flow of monies to terrorist groups) looked into Muslim Aid as a potential terror financer.
In Pakistan, meanwhile, both the UK and Pakistani branches of Muslim Aid partner openly with Al Khidmat, the “charitable” arm of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Pakistani arm. Al Khidmat publicly works with Hizbul Mujahideen, the Kashmiri militant wing of Jamaat-e-Islami and a designated terrorist group in both India and the United States.
This Pakistan branch is particularly shadowy. In 2009, it appointed a senior official of Pakistan’s infamous, terror-connected Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as chairman of its board of trustees.
Other terrorist operatives have made use of Muslim Aid’s infrastructure. In 2012, three terrorist operatives used Muslim Aid identities to raise money for a series of suicide bombings. Although Muslim Aid was apparently unaware of this scheme, Britain’s charity regulator later censured the organization for having “insufficient measures in place to monitor its spending” and activities, leading British officials to fear, among other things, that it might be “inadvertently funding a proscribed terrorist organisation.” Concerns over the charity’s management have continued to surface over the past few years.
Muslim Aid India
Despite this extraordinary array of terror links and overt extremism, Muslim Aid is active on both sides of the Line of Control in Kashmir, and well as throughout India. Although it claims to have operated a field office in the country since 2005, this was not its first appearance: a British Islamist publication from 1992 features a call for donations to “Muslim Aid – India” in the wake of the notorious destruction of the Babri Mosque in Uttar Pradesh.
Today, Muslim Aid India appears to operate primarily out of Hyderabad. But management of the charity is not exactly local. Its two leading officials, Mirza Feroz Baig and Jafer Hussain Qureshi, are involved with a string of companies and charities registered in the United Kingdom. Several of these organizations have declared addresses on incorporation paperwork registered to a single house in the English city of Birmingham, which property records obtained by the Middle East Forum show to be owned by Qureshi.
Muslim Aid’s Qureshi, it seems, has been helping for years to manage the affairs of the terror-connected international Islamist operative Zakir Naik. One of the companies previously registered to Qureshi’s address is Universal Broadcasting Corporation Limited, a key component of Zakir Naik’s network, and which serves as the umbrella organisation for Naik’s infamous Peace TV media outlets and various companies….a
