Germany: Politicians demand probe into Islamic charity’s funding and ties to Muslim Brotherhood

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Germany’s efforts to probe Islamic Relief funding and ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are encouraging move. Security officials in Germany warn that Islamic Relief’s activity in the country poses “a bigger long term threat to Germany than Al Qaeda or ISIS.” So now Germany’s Free Democratic Party is “demanding an inquiry into the government’s funding of charity Islamic Relief and its links to the Muslim Brotherhood.” In addition to this, Germany also recently banned Iran-backed Hizballah’s activity on its soil and designated it a terrorist organisation.

Muslim Brotherhood groups are designated as terrorist groups by Bahrain, Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Despite this, they maintain broad influence in Western countries. It’s all because of the irrational fear of being deemed “Islamophobic” and “racist.” For a list of groups and individuals linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and specifically to Hamas), click HERE.

In 2011, Canada’s Revenue Agency wrote a notice to IRFAN under the subject heading Notice of Intention to Revoke International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy — Canada:

"Our analysis of the audit information has led the CRA to believe that IRFAN-Canada provides support to Hamas, a listed terrorist organization. Our findings indicate that IRFAN-Canada provided over $14.6 million in resources to operating partners that were run by officials of Hamas, openly supported and provided funding to Hamas, or have been listed by various jurisdictions because of their support for Hamas or other terrorist entities."

This led to the Conservative Harper government’s revocation of IRFAN’s charity status and the labeling of it as a terrorist organization. The Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, however, brought Islamic Relief right back into the mainstream. Islamic Relief, along with the National Council of Canadian Muslims (originally CAIR-CAN), was included in a Liberal government 23-million-dollar initiative to “monitor citizens for compliance” to make sure they adhered to “anti-Islamophobia” motion M-103, and which designated money for the training of law enforcement officers to recognize online and offline “hate.” In the name of “diversity” and “inclusion,” Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups are expanding in Western countries.

Every country for the sake of its freedom needs to investigate and designate all Muslim Brotherhood-connected groups as terrorist organizations. Any moneys transferred to such groups should be deemed an act of funding, aiding and abetting terrorist activities.

At the end of August, the new Islamic Relief Worldwide chairman Ihab Saad — who is based in the U.S. — celebrated the Muslim Brotherhood on social media, and expressed sympathies for former Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi.

Lorenzo Vidino, director of the programme on extremism at George Washington University, and an adviser on extremism to European governments, stated of Islamic Relief Worldwide:

“My research clearly shows a pattern in which prominent trustees and upper-level management embrace material that is strongly anti-Semitic, and supports Hamas and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.”

 

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Germany’s FDP urges probe into Islamic Relief funding and ties to Muslim Brotherhood,” by Nicky Harley, The National, October 7, 2020:

Politicians in Germany are demanding urgent answers over the government’s funding of charity Islamic Relief and its links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) is demanding an inquiry into the Muslim Brotherhood’s ties in the nation.

It follows previous warnings by security officials in Saxony that the group’s activities were a “bigger long-term threat” to Germany than Al Qaeda or ISIS.

In a list of 19 questions submitted to the Bundestag on Tuesday, the FDP is calling for the government to reveal the extent of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence and its ties to Islamic Relief Germany, which has received millions in funding from taxpayers.

The party wants to know if background checks were carried out prior to the government issuing grants to Islamic Relief.

The FDP wants answers in relation to allegations Islamic Relief has helped to finance Hamas and what monitoring processes the government has in place – and it claims the German government has previous knowledge of the charity’s “significant personal connections” to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Islamic Relief Worldwide was designated by the UAE in 2014 as a terrorist organisation, because of its links to the global Muslim Brotherhood.

Burkhart Frier, who heads Germany’s domestic intelligence agency the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz in North Rhine Westphalia, told The Focus magazine last year that the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities were a bigger long-term threat to German democracy than Al Qaeda or ISIS.

It followed warnings from his colleague Gordian Meyer-Plath in 2017 that the Muslim Brotherhood was working to subvert democracy in his country.

A report published last week by leading British think tank the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, titled The Islamic Movement in Britain, named Islamic Relief among a list of networks linked to the bankrolling of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.

In July, the charity’s board was forced to step down after it emerged one of its trustees, Heshmat Khalifa, had written anti-Semitic messages on Facebook in a tirade that lasted from 2014 to 2015.

The National revealed a further three senior employees of Islamic Relief Worldwide published social media posts showing support for Hamas and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

German aid alliance group Aktion Deutschland Hilft has suspended Islamic Relief Germany’s membership until December 2021, with the charity’s funding frozen….