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Muslim Aid’s International Network

By Cross Post | Published: February 28, 2011

This is a cross-post by Chris Blackburn originally published in e-Bangladesh

Muslim Aid UK and its affiliates such as the UK Islamic Mission have close ties to Pakistan’s largest Islamic fundamentalist party- the Jamaat-i-Islami. I have previously written a series of articles on Muslim Aid and the Muslim Council of Britain’s ties to Jamaat for David Horowitz’s frontpagemag.com in 2005.[1] As a result we were threatened with legal action by the trustees of both organisations.[2]

My investigations were originally centred on Jamaat’s links to Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and a charity front called KOMPAK which is based in Indonesia. Some of the al-Qaeda hijackers attended a final planning session for the 9/11 attacks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2000. Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali), a senior KOMPAK leader attended the conference. Intelligence officials now believe that the al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in Yemen was also planned at the meeting. The core leadership of KOMPAK have been arrested for having ties to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah, a radical jihadi group which is believed to be behind the Bali bombings and other atrocities. KOMPAK was funded by Muslim Aid UK.

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Muslim Aid Makes Lawfare Attack on Chris Blackburn

By Effendi | Published: February 27, 2011

In December 2005 Frontpage Magazine published an article by Chris Blackburn called Bangladesh: Osama’s New Haven, which claimed that a Bangladesh foundation was a conduit for funds to terrorists. Last week, Frontpage posted a statement on their website with information about a letter they had received from Carter Ruck, solicitor for Trustees of the UK-based charity Muslim Aid, contesting claims made by Chris Blackburn in his article. In accordance with FrontPage Mag’s policy, they posted the solicitor’s letter and also the response from Chris.

Solicitor from Muslim Aid:

Dear Sir,

We write on behalf of our clients the Trustees of the UK-based charity Muslim Aid in order to record their concerns at the article entitled: “Bangladesh: Osama’s New Haven” published on Frontpagemag.com’s homepage from December 29 2005.

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Simon Singh delighted as BCA drop case

By Faisal | Published: April 15, 2010

The BCA have dropped their case against Simon Singh! A delighted Simon says:

It still staggers me that the British Chiropractic Association and half the chiropractors in the UK were making unsubstantiated claims. It still baffles me that the BCA then dared to sue me for libel and put me through two years of hell before I was vindicated.  And it still makes me angry that our libel laws not only tolerate but also encourage such ludicrous libel suits. My victory does not mean that our libel laws are okay, because I won despite the libel laws. We still have the most notoriously anti-free speech libel laws in the free world.

Read more here.

And here is Simon’s original article about the British Chiropractic Association which kicked off their libel action, now legally republished on the Guardian.

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would it kill me to go along with dawkins and hitchens for once?

By bananabrain | Published: April 12, 2010

as you have probably heard, the hierarchy of the catholic church is coping with plenty of more-than-usually-unpleasant scandal involving the usual suspects: priests, paedophiles, children, cover-ups, pay-offs, not-quite-apologies, denials, denouncings and defrockings which have, for the first time i can remember, started to take on a somewhat apocalyptic tone, that’s apocalyptic in terms of the catholic church if not the rest of us. even the commentariat at the times smell blood:

“A pope with no moral authority simply cannot function as a pope. Yes, he has ecclesiastical power. But ecclesiastical power without moral authority merely exposes the hollowness of an unaccountable, self-perpetuating clerisy. Does he think we don’t know? Does he understand that any parent of any child will be unable to imagine themselves in the same moral universe as this man?”

and some of them are even sort-of-default-catholics for whom this is the final straw:

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Muslim Aid Under Investigation

By Effendi | Published: April 6, 2010

Muslim Aid, the international UK-based charity, is under investigation by the Charity Commission for paying specific Hamas-linked groups and other designated sponsors of terrorism in the Gaza Strip with hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations by British Muslims.

According to its own accounts, Muslim Aid paid £325,000 to the Islamic University of Gaza, where leading Hamas figures teach, and £13,998 to the al-Ihsan Charitable Society, designated by the US government as a “sponsor of terrorism” and a front for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.

Security sources also claim that Muslim Aid has helped channel a further £210,600 to six other organisations in the Gaza Strip since July 2009, all of which they say are also linked to Hamas.

Despite repeated approaches for comment over more than a week, Muslim Aid has refused to deny these claims.

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Defend David T

By Guest | Published: March 19, 2010

This is a cross-post by Rumbold

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David T of Harry’s Place is being sued by George Galloway and one of Mr. Galloway’s collegues, Kevin Ovenden. They are demanding £50,000 for a comment left on another blog. The comment he made wasn’t nice or correct, but as Richard Bartholomew put it:

The legal threat seems to me to be badly conceived. I’m sure that Galloway and Overden are against the anti-Jewish hadith in Hamas Covenant, but while it’s there anyone who meets a Hamas governmental official risks being tarnished by association. Blame Hamas for that. And of course it’s annoying when a political opponent extrapolates a supposedly logical chain from one’s activities or position to the conclusion that in some deeper “objective” sense one is in fact supporting something else, but that’s life and to be allowed to do it is essential to public debate.

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