Shocker: British Investigation Finds Record Number of 'Charities' Are In Fact Terror-Front Groups
We didn't see this coming.
1.2.2017
Britain is just catching on to the obvious fact that a record number of so-called "charitable organizations" are in fact terror front groups. A new in-depth report by the Charity Commission reveals that U.K.-based charities linked to terrorism have reached a record high.
According to the Telegraph, the number of so-called charities the Commission has reported to law enforcement has practically trebled in the last three years, rising from 234 to 630. In addition, the outlet reports that eight compliance cases and four formal inquiries have been opened into "allegations of abuse of charities for terrorist or extremist purposes" in the last year.
Commission chairman William Shawcross said that Islamic extremism is "the most dangerous and potentially deadly" issue facing U.K. charities today.
"It is the most dangerous because of the threat of Islamist extremism," he told the Telegraph.
"It is the most potentially deadly threat."
Of course Shawcross has received pushback from local Muslim communities -- a scenario that underscores why the demographic is at times looked at collectively with suspicion. The Left balks when people "lump all Muslims together" (and in reality, few people really do that) -- but consider the response Shawcross received from local Muslim communities:
“A group of Muslim charity leaders came in to complain when I said this the first time and I said, 'Look we are here to protect you if there were another atrocity on the streets of London, like the murder of Lee Rigby. And, if an atrocity like the murder of Lee Rigby were in any way associated with your charity it would be catastrophic for you. We are trying to protect you and protect Muslim charities from that kind of abuse’.”
The Telegraph provides the following glaring example of U.K. charities that funded a "human rights group" which in fact turned out to be an organization dedicated to sabotaging the government's anti-terror programs. Oh, and it is run by a former Gitmo detainee:
Earlier this year the Commission stepped in to stop the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Anita Roddick Foundation funding Cage because it did not match their “charitable objectives”.Mr Shawcross said that Cage, a controversial human rights group, “was not a charity and there is no way in which Cage could represent any charitable purpose under British law”.Last year, it emerged that Cage had used meetings on university campuses to encourage the “sabotage” of the Government’s official anti-extremism programme, Prevent.Moazzam Begg, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee who is director of Cage, told students “any right-minded person” would oppose the Prevent strategy, likening it to the methods of the Stasi secret police in the former East Germany.Raising concerns on issues pertaining to the erosion of civil liberties in the war on terror, he also said: “It is widely acknowledged amongst both academic and community groups that Prevent is ineffectual at stopping radicalisation, thus preventing Prevent in no way enables radicalisation.”
According to the Telegraph, Cage describes itself as an "independent advocacy organisation working to empower communities impacted by the War on Terror" -- meaning its focus is supposedly to help Muslims "victims." Sound familiar? CAIR and others of its ilk are out daily defending so-called victims of Islamophobia (the "hate crimes" in almost all cases turn out to be hoaxes) and people "wrongfully accused" of engaging in terror activities.
In fact, recently on social media a defender of CAIR tried to claim that the largest terror funding trial in U.S. history -- the Holy Land Foundation trial (for which CAIR is named an unindicted co-conspirator) -- was a right-wing witch-hunt to destroy a charitable foundation that merely helped Muslim "victims of terror and bigotry."
Right.
Those with eyes to see have known the score for quite some time. Hopefully under the new administration similar front groups will be monitored vigilantly and brought down swiftly.
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