It was only last month when the Director of the International resource sector at the International Islamic Relief Organisation, Heshmat Khalifa stepped down from his position after he was found to be spreading hatred and supporting terror groups.
He
expressed his ideas in social networking site facebook where he posted a lot of
extremist content and several writings that asked for patronage. This report
was covered extensively by the west especially the British publications like
the Daily Mail and the Guardian who highlighted the derogatory statements that
Khalifa had posted on facebook. He had started making personal statements on
particular communities. For an example, he called the Jews "grandchildren
of monkeys and pigs” and in a similar hurtful post, he described Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a "Zionist pimp." When the report
came out, people wanted to see his outrageous posts but by the time facebook
had already removed his page.
He
has been a part of charity ‘business’ for over 20 years. 63-year-old Khalifa
had held many senior roles and responsibilities in the organisation especially
the past five years. Islamic Relief made into one of the biggest Muslim
charities of the world after the Times revealed its annual income ot be over £
570 million. The idea behind starting this charity was to respond quickly to
disasters and fight poverty through its Islamic values, experience, and global
reach, affirms the group on its website. Acting as one set mentality, Khalifa’s
link to the terrorist movements of the Muslim Brotherhood is very much
eveident. He strongly opposes Al-Sisi's government in Egypt.
Islamic
Relief is based out of Birmingham, which confirmed that Hesmat Khalifa had
resigned from the board of trustees of IRW with immediate effect and added that
the organisation does not second the views and principles of Khalifa
The
organisation is accused of supporting Hamas, a terrorist organisation based out
of Palestenian territories. It opened one of its offices in Gaza city in 1998.
The
link to the terror group can be identified by the previous incidents that
involved people from the organisation being involved in such activities. In
2006, Gaza coordinator, Iyaz Ali, a Pakistani-born British national, was
arrested and charged with transferring funds and assistance to Hamas
institutions and organizations, including the Al Wafa and Al Tzalah
associations, outlawed in Israel. And on top of it, he even admitted to being
involved in local Hamas operatives form Jordan. The Israeli government had also
found certain documents proving the involvement of the organisation in terror
funding.
There
are several reports that suggest that the charity is nothing but a gimmick to
hide funding that the organisation gives in recruiting fighters, financing
terrorist and subversive activities like building mosques and radical
campaigns. Because of all these reasons and many more, the United Arab Emirates
had proscribed the organisation due to concerns of links to the Muslim
brotehrhood.
The
organisation has been using funds and money to preach Islam among people. The
Bangladeshi government barred IR charity and aid which they were giving to
Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar, alleging these funds were used to preach Islam,
encourage radicalsim and find militants. Last year, the German government also
confirmed that there were links between IRW members and Muslim Brotehrhood.
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