Steven Emerson Quotes
After 9-11, we found that there were organizations throughout the country who under the guise of Islamic charities have raised tens of millions of dollars for Islamic terrorist organizations. They use the non-profit status to shield themselves from prosecution.
There are legitimate Islamic charities as well as those who are fronts for terrorist organizations. Some of the terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah blur the distinctions by actually having a charitable and/or political role in addition to their terrorist activities. Hezbollah, for example, in addition to their terrorist activities, has won some seats in the Lebanese Parliament and finances some legitimate charitable activities. So, often donors, including American donors, think they are funding the charitable activities but the money goes into terrorist activities. Even in the case where money goes to legitimate charities, very often those charities are complicit with the terrorists in many ways ranging from allowing terrorists to use their facilities (including hospitals and mosques) for the hiding of terrorists, planning of terrorists, and in some cases the storage and hiding of weapons and explosives. In some cases, so called legitimate charities actually paid the families of suicide bombers who had deliberately killed innocent civilians including Americans.
Steven Emerson, Investigative Journalist & Investigator for the Foreign Relations Committee, Founder and executive director of The Investigative Project, one of the world's largest intelligence archives on Islamist groups., Interview, C-SPAN, Book TV, January 21, 2007
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Tunisia, although it has a large majority Muslim population, became a secular republic after its Arab Spring revolution.
Some of the Prophet’s followers by modern standards were very violent and urged attacks on innocent people in order to intimidate others. He was expelled from his Egyptian university and arrested, tried and found guilty of “holding religion in contempt”. Which is a crime in most Islamic countries. He also “insulted” the President. He is the first blogger to have been jailed in Egypt for the contents of his blog. See {585058}.
The Prime Minister was stating a widely held, but erroneous view of the West, history and geopolitics. The Crusades were traumatic for Muslims as the Europeans were not only military threats to the Muslim holy places, but the Christians were particularly brutal even to Richard the Lionhearted butchering unarmed prisoners of war who had surrendered. This aggression by some countries in Europe under the Christian “banner” is associated, to this day with Christianity and any primarily Christian nation is therefore just poised to attack and expel Islam from the Middle East. Mahathir therefore saw the American attack on Afghanistan and later Iraq as just an extension of the Crusader zeal whose object is to destroy Islam. Malaysia has a large population of Muslims—much larger than any of the Middle Eastern Islamic states. Yet, religiously oriented Islamic political leaders make common cause with other Muslim nations which have almost no other interest in common other than their religion.
Steven Emerson is an American journalist, author, and pundit on national security, terrorism, and Islamic extremism.
