Muslim Brotherhood Raising Funds for Hamas Branch
Charles Johnson
Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 4:38 pm PST • Views: 269
Muslim Brotherhood Raising Funds for Hamas.
Well, of course they are. Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood.
CAIRO, Egypt - Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood called for Muslims on Monday to give money to a Hamas-led Palestinian government, disregarding the U.S. campaign to stop the flow of cash to the militant group. …
Two of Hamas’ strongest allies tried Monday to rally support.
“Annual financial assistance to Palestine is one way that Muslim nations can share the responsibility of Palestine,” Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in talks with Hamas’ political chief Khaled Mashaal.
Mashaal was leading a Hamas delegation on a three-day visit to Iran — the latest stop of their tour of the region aimed at ensuring financial and political support.
The Muslim Brotherhood — the region’s largest fundamentalist political movement, with branches and affiliated groups in 86 countries — announced its own funding drive.
“We will appeal to each and every Muslim to help the Palestinians in the face of this unjust and fierce campaign (against Hamas),” the Brotherhood’s supreme leader, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, told the Associated Press in Cairo.
The group will ask supporters to donate one-quarter of their income, Brotherhood official Mohammed Hilal told the Cairo-based Al-Masry Al-Yawm newspaper.
The Muslim Brotherhood has wealthy private backers, and the group has close ties to Hamas, which originally grew out of the Egypt-based Brotherhood.
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