Another terrorist charity's day in court
Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation -- based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and with branches around the world -- purports to be an innocuous charity which collects funds to help Muslims in poor countries. But this façade is a cover for its real purpose: to spread extremist Wahhabi doctrine internationally, to provide funding for Al Qaeda, and to finance specific terror plots. So explains Zombie, in a detailed report on the foundation's appeal pending in the United States Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit. Like the Holy Land Foundation prosecution, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation case raises the question whether the United States is capable of defending itself against terrorist front groups adept at exploiting our freedoms. The Ninth Circuit is predictably receptive to the arguments of the terrorist charity. While the appeal is pending before the Court, Zombie's report is must reading.
