The Federal Bureau of Investigation is severing its ties with the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), amid evidence that the organization ha slinks to a support network for Hamas. All local chapters of CAIR have been shunned in the wake of a 15-year investigation that culminated with the December…
The Muslim Executive has received an increased subsidy from 150,000 Euros to 200,000 Euros. Parliament member Ben Weyts has asked Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck to explain why the subsidy increase was made “while the operation of the Executive is still faulty.” Minster De Clerck admitted that there have been problems in the past few…
The leaders of what was once the largest Muslim charity in the United States were found guilty of acting as a front for Palestinian militants, in what was the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history. The now-defunct Holy Land Foundation is charged with funneling $12 million to Hamas. The Holy Land Foundation is one…
This video piece by Katrin Bennhold of the International Herald Tribune reports on the possible closing of La Reussite Islamic School in Aubervilliers because of its difficulty in self-financing. Yvonne Fazilleau, the school’s principal, claims that without any state subsidies the school may close in February 2009. The school’s yearly tuition is approximately €5000; the…
Mohammed Moussaoui, current president of the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Faith), noted at the beginning of Ramadan that hundreds of religious leaders, largely from Morrocco but also from Algeria and Turkey, arrived to assist in prayers in France’s 1800 mosques. Their training, along with the financing of Islam in France, remain the primary…
