February 09, 2005

Hakeem Olajuwon Named in al Qaeda Funding Probe

AP:

A mosque established and funded by basketball star Hakeem Olajuwon gave more than $80,000 to charities the government later determined to be fronts for the terror groups al-Qaida and Hamas, according to financial records obtained by The Associated Press.

Olajuwon told the AP he had not known of any links to terrorism when the donations were made, prior to the government's crackdown on the groups, and would not have given the money if he had known

h/t: Venom

Moral of the story: Don't give to an Islamic charity, you never know where it's going to end up.

Tamar Tesler has some more thoughts at the Counterterrorism blog.

Others: Blogs of War, TBTN

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 07:31 PM | |