Obama let slide huge terror-funding case

If you follow what's going on in the world of Islamic terrorism, you're probably aware of the Holy Land Foundation case--the largest terrorism-financing case in U.S. history. This one with the Obama administration was potentially bigger.
And, if it resulted in prosecutions, there would likely be an incredible domino effect  that would impact a whole host of other Islamist organizations in America and around the world.

But then, near the end of Obama Administration in 2016, the Justice Department declined to prosecute.

Federal agents were stunned and no real reason was given. The investigation into Islamic Relief continued, but the criminal case presented by the three government agencies would not move forward.

Did the administration lack the political will to take on the case, or is there something more sinister involved?

The proverbial fan being hit by excrement from the blowback would have had a huge impact at home and abroad had the case resulted in prosecutions.

Islamic Relief Worldwide, with headquarters in the U.K., has 16 branches including Islamic Relief USA and 26 field offices. 

Islamic Relief Worldwide boasted a $156 million budget in 2016 and its U.S. arm listed $115 million in total revenue. Evidence implies it has gotten even stronger financially and has all the resources it would need to fight back in the press, in the courts, and, to influence voters. Federal investigators would likely have been labeled as Islamophobic.

One of Islamic Relief’s senior officials admitted his organization was founded by Muslim Brotherhood ideologues. Extensive ties to Islamist extremists remain, including those linked to terrorism. The U.S. wing of Islamic Relief overlaps with organizations that the Justice Department has identified as affiliated not only with the Muslim Brotherhood but also Hamas, which is listed by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization, and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Islamic Relief has received tens of millions of taxpayer dollars from the West, including more than $700,000 from the U.S. government. The State Department even cheered Islamic Relief as a partner in a July 2017 announcement. The charity was advising the U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department at the very same time that Israel banned the group for funding Hamas, saying that Islamic Relief "funnels millions of dollars a year to Hamas institutions.” 

The United Arab Emirates has also banned the self-described charity as a terrorist entity, but here in the U.S., not a single charity has been blacklisted for having links to terrorism since the earliest days of the Obama Administration.

A DHS whistleblower has finally come forward with his story about the purging of important intelligence records, including those related to this Islamist network. We have learned about how the Obama administration allowed Hezbollah’s drug trafficking operation in America “off the hook” for the sake of the nuclear deal with Iran.

Finally, last year, then-Rep. Ron DeSantis wrote legislation to forbid the sending of taxpayer money to Islamic Relief Worldwide. 

DeSantis argued that,  broadly speaking, taxpayer money shouldn’t go to any groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The fact that he had to try putting something like that into law should wake us all up to the depths at which Islamic terror-funding organizations have their claws buried into us and we look the other way.

Congress should investigate Islamic Relief, even if the DOJ won't, to uncover why it received taxpayer money despite its well-documented history of involvement with terrorist groups, and to find out why the Justice Department dropped a criminal case that could have been one of the biggest terrorism-related prosecutions in our history.


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