The Holy Land Foundation, once the largest Islamic charity in the United States, did the same thing. In both cases, the perpetrators likely really believed that giving money to Hamas was in line with the requirements of Islamic charity. Zakat money can be used for jihad, so why shouldn’t Muslims be able to make charitable donations to Hamas? To non-Muslims, this reasoning is monstrous, as it amounts to financing the murders of innocent civilians, but if one believes that Hamas is waging a legitimate jihad against hated infidels, then giving money to it is meritorious.
“San Diego man accused of raising hundreds of thousands for Hamas under pretense of Gaza charity,” by Jessica Russak-Hoffman, JNS, June 17, 2026:
(June 17, 2026 / JNS) Reda Mazen Rida Sabassi, 38, of San Diego, was arrested on fives [sic] charges for allegedly transferring $116,000 to a Hamas member in Turkey and trying to convert $382,000 into cryptocurrency to deliver to people connected to the terror group, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Sabassi faces charges of terrorism, sanctions-evasion, wire fraud, money laundering and false statement, and up to 85 years in prison, the department said….
The Justice Department alleges that all in all, Sabassi used online, crowd-sourced charity drives to raise about $600,000 ostensibly for humanitarian aid in Gaza but in fact funneled money to Hamas-related groups and used some of the monies for his personal expenses, including rent and credit card payments.
According to the complaint, Sabassi promoted Hamas online openly, created and shared an hour-long compilation video of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel and maintained close contact with Gaza Now, a Hamas-linked fundraising organization sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department….
Tony says
This is everyday life with Islam’s Muslims where Muslims lie, deceive, and steal to engage in jihad, war with Non-Muslims using money and Muslim lives for ultimate Muslim conquest as taught in Islamic Law and by Allah in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Billy says
Rule of Thumb: Never give any Money to a Muslim organization or a Muslim cause of any type. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law to ultimately conquer the Non-Muslims with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
ploome says
just like islamist IS muslim
Gaza IS hamas
when the arabs are killing, they are all hamas
when the arabs are losing they were never hamas/they hate hamas
the distinction is created by ignorant people who don’t want to understand t
he reality of islsm
consider post war Germany….people denied they supported the NAZIs, it was their neighbor, or someone they barely knew
Rick Gordon says
Promoting a terrorist organization sounds to me like treason – no question about it.
OLD GUY says
Sure does.
gravenimage says
San Diego: Muslim accused of raising hundreds of thousands for Hamas under pretense of Gaza charity
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Will they be prosecuted for this?