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| Britain |
| Theresa May on Terror Charities |
| 2013-03-05 |
| Last Wednesday Home Secretary Theresa May had this to say in a speech (emphases added): Speaking at the Community Security Trust annual dinner in central London on Wednesday evening, Mrs May said more would be done to stop extremists “masquerading as charities” in order to raise funds. Mrs May praised the Charity Commission’s efforts to take a “more effective and aggressive line in seeking out and ejecting” such organisations. “Too often organisations whose purposes have been the opposite of charitable – and which have even been involved in sending money to straightforwardly terrorist organisations – have been allowed to flourish as charities,” said the Home Secretary. These are welcome words. But they will be worthless if action does not follow. Few abusers of charity are as blatant as Interpal, the biggest political and material supporter of Hamas among British charities. Here is Interpal Vice Chairman and Managing Trustee Essam Mustafa embracing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza just a month ago. Mustafa was in Gaza for one of a score of Interpal’s “Miles of Smiles” solidarity visits to the terrorist group over recent years. |
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