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June 29, 2011
Questions Asked about the Muslim Brotherhood in North America
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report
Congressman Frank Wolf, 10th District of Virginia.
The office of U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) has announced that he has written a letter to the head of the Internal Revenue Service asking that the agency to investigate whether the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has illegally received or solicited funds from foreign governments or agents. According to the press release:
Washington, D.C. – In response to recent information released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ tax-exempt status has been terminated for repeated failure to file required tax forms, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) today asked the IRS to also investigate whether CAIR has illegally received or solicited funds from foreign governments or agents.
In a letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, Wolf applauded the agency for revoking CAIR’s tax-exempt status for its failure to file the annual disclosure report, Form 990, for at least the last three years. He said that compliance with this law is the only assurance the public has that an organization claiming tax-exempt status is not abusing this privilege.
Wolf provided Shulman a copy of a recently disclosed letter from CAIR executive director Nihad Awad to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in which he appears to solicit money for a CAIR project.
“I am concerned that Awad and CAIR may be soliciting — and receiving — funds from other unsavory foreign governments and organizations, including some that may be sponsors of terror,” Wolf wrote, citing reports that indicate Awad and other CAIR representatives may have traveled to Sudan to solicit funds from Sudanese President Omar Hassan Bashir.
“I request that the IRS investigate whether Awad and CAIR may have violated U.S. law in soliciting or accepting money from foreign governments or agents during the period that CAIR failed to file Form 990,” wrote Wolf.
A copy of Wolf’s letter to Commissioner Shulman is available below and on his Web site at wolf.house.gov.
Read the rest here.
An earlier post documents obtained from a law enforcement source detailing a plan to pass money from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to Georgetown University through the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Documents released in the Holy Land Trial have revealed that the founders and current leaders of CAIR were part of the Palestine Committee of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as identifying the organization itself as being part of the US. Brotherhood. A recent post discussed an interview with the Deputy leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in which he confirms a relationship between his organization and CAIR. Investigative research posted on GMBDR had determined that CAIR had it origins in the U.S. Hamas infrastructure and CAIR and it leaders have a long history of defending almost all individuals accused of terrorism by the US. government, frequently calling such prosecutions a “war on Islam.”
In 2009, a US federal judge ruled “The Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF, the Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), and with Hamas.”
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) along with CAIR are part of the US Muslim Brotherhood.
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- Congressmen Ask IRS To Investigate CAIR For Lobbying Violations
- CAIR Charges U.S. Congressman With Seeking Political Payback Over Letter To FBI
- CAIR Wants U.S. Congressman To Help Get Organization Off List
- UK Asks Israel For Mandate To Investigate Palestinian Return Center
- CAIR Asks IRS To Examine Investigative Project’s Tax Structure
Jamal Badawi.
Canadian media is reporting that a new Halifax mosque associated with U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leader Jamal Badawi appears to be experiencing financial difficulties. Acording to the report:
A Halifax architecture firm has put a lien on the city’s new mosque.
Kassner/Goodspeed Architects Ltd. has launched a lawsuit against the Maritime Muslim Academy over an unpaid $36,194 bill for its work on the Ummah Mosque and Community Centre.
The architecture firm registered a lien against lands at 2510 St. Matthias St. and 6225 Chebucto Rd.
The last work the architecture firm did on the project was on April 1, according to the statement of claim made public Wednesday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
“Any applicable period of credit for payment has expired,” said the lawsuit.
Kassner/Goodspeed is looking for the Maritime Muslim Academy to make good on the unpaid bill, plus the cost of the legal action.
“In the event of a default of payment,” the architecture firm wants a judge to order the property sold to cover the academy’s bill, according to the lawsuit.
Andrew Wolfson, a Dartmouth lawyer who represents the architecture firm, admitted it was odd to place a lien on a mosque.
“Yeah, it’s different,” Wolfson said. “I’ve never had to do that before.” Dan Goodspeed, who designed the project, refused to comment Wednesday.
Hadi Salah, principal of the Maritime Muslim Academy, said Wednesday he couldn’t speak about the matter.
“I really don’t have the time now,” Salah said.
Last year, he told The Chronicle Herald that the $6-million project would be completed without borrowing a penny.
Salah said in an April 2010 interview that the mosque was being constructed without the traditional sort of North American mortgage obtained by most businesses, institutions and individuals undertaking big construction jobs.
“In Islamic tradition, it is prohibited to deal with interest,” Salah said at the time. “This project is built mostly by fundraising and the community has been quite generous.”
But Imam Jamal Badawi, professor emeritus of religious studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, said Wednesday that the unpaid architect’s bill has nothing to do with that tradition.
“It’s something much more complex than that,” said Badawi, who refused to elaborate.
“It has nothing to do with the question of interest. It is a matter before the court of law and it would not be appropriate ethically or legally to make any comment at this point.”
The mosque is slated to take up about one-third of the 25,000-square-foot complex, which includes a gymnasium, library and cafeteria. The province contributed $767,000 toward the construction cost of the gym.
Donations for the construction project are still being solicited on the mosque’s website.
“The envelope is completed and we are getting closer to the final stage,” according to www.ummahmasjid.ca. “To date, approximately 70 per cent of the needed work toward the project completion has been done.”
An overview updated this month indicates that $5,263,640 in donations have been promised for the project, with $4,238,858 collected.
Dr. Badawi is a leader in many of the most important organizations of the global Muslim Brotherhood including the Islamic Society of North America, the Council on American Islamic Relations (Canada), the Fiqh Council of North America, the Muslim American Society, and the European Council for Fatwa and Research. He recently retired from an academic position at St. Mary’s University in Halifax and continues to be one of the most widely traveled North American Muslim Brotherhood leaders. An earlier post discussed his role in the top leadership structures of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.
Related posts:
- Canadian Muslim Brotherhood To Run Large Mosque In Downtown Montreal
- Possible Muslim Brotherhood Mosque To Be Built In Sweden’s Second Largest City
- US/Canadian Muslim Brotherhoods Fund Islamic Chair At Canadian University
- MP From Quebec Takes Trip To UAE Sponsored By Canadian Muslim Brotherhood
- Quasi-Public Foundation Established In France To Finance Mosque Construction, Muslim Brotherhood Leader Involved
Reprinted with permission from the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report.
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