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Sam Westrop

Islamic Relief’s willingness to embrace one of the world’s most notoriously hardline, anti-Jewish clerics throws doubt on the charity’s claims that it has sought to stamp out the much-discussed anti-Semitism of its board members and senior staff.
Signing on to a bipartisan effort to underwrite nonprofit work offers the overseas charitable arm of America’s Jamaat-e-Islami Islamist network congressional both legitimacy and the chance for a future government subsidy.
The incident in Pennsylvania’s largest city was not an unforeseeable, one-off mistake; for once, the Muslim American Society, whose officials and branches have a history of engaging in bigotry, simply got caught.
One of Europe’s most important Jewish institutions handed tens of thousands of dollars to a charity that backs not just anti-Jewish hatred, but also supports the very terror group that turns such hatred into deadly acts of terrible violence.
CAIR Minnesota is a worrying candidate to control a taskforce against anti-Semitism. Along with its parent organization’s long history of ties to terror and the overt anti-Semitism of its officials, it also regularly invites anti-Jewish speakers to address its events.