In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are so many jihad-linked charities.
“Mosque charity investigated for encouraging children into terrorism,” by David Ainsworth, Civil Society, June 29, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Charity Commission has frozen bank accounts at a mosque after an imam was convicted of six counts of encouraging terrorism in sermons and classes to children.
Trustees of the Fazal Ellahi Charitable Trust were also told that their charity must stop working with children.
The charity, which exists to advance Islam and teach Urdu, was removed from the Commission register in 2009 after it failed to engage with the regulator or submit accounts, but it continued to run a mosque in Birmingham.
The Commission stepped in last year after being made aware of offences committed by the Imam at the mosque operated by the charity. The offences resulted in a conviction of six counts of encouragement of terrorism and two counts of encouraging support for a proscribed organisation in relation to a series of sermons and classes for children he gave at the mosque.
“The Commission engaged with the charity in 2017 after being made aware of offences committed by the imam at the mosque operated by the charity,” the regulator said in a statement.
“The offences resulted in a conviction of six counts of encouragement of terrorism and two counts of encouraging support for a proscribed organisation in relation to a series of sermons and classes for children he gave at the mosque.”…