Islamic charities connected to terrorism

From Times Dispatch

A phrase that is getting a lot of attention these days is "connecting the dots".

Branch in Alexandria says charges against volunteer unfounded

BY MATTHEW BARAKAT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jun 3, 2004


ALEXANDRIA - The U.S. branch of a controversial Saudi-based charity said yesterday that the arrest of one of its volunteers last week on immigration charges is unfounded.

Federal agents on Friday raided the offices of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth in Alexandria as part of its investigation into immigration charges against Ibrahim Abdullah, an Alexandria resident and Saudi citizen who last month earned his doctorate from George Mason University.

So, just who is the World Assembly of Muslim Youth?

From
Wikipedia

The World Assembly of Muslim Youth is an Islamic organization who's stated purpose is to establish a platform where Muslim youth can get together in an Islamic environment. In addition to Football Tournaments WAMY organizes European Muslim Scouts camps for Muslim youth in Europe.

"We need thousands of these organizations all over the world. According to the Americans themselves, there are more than 1.5 million organizations in the US. When you look at the Muslim world, there are no more than 50,000. It is not fair that the West has so many organizations, while we are denied even the existence of a few organizations like WAMY, the Muslim World League, Al-Haramain Charitable Organization and others."--Dr. Al-Wohaibi

And who is this Al-Haramain Charitable Orgnaization that Dr. Al-Wohaibi admires so much?

From International Herald Tribune

Group was linked to terror financing

WASHINGTON The Saudi government said Wednesday that it was dissolving a large Riyadh-based charity, the Al Haramain Foundation, that has raised as much as $50 million a year and has been linked to the financing of terrorist organizations.
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The move has been sought for several years by American officials, and it represents a major step by the Saudi government to assert control over a flow of money that has made the country a major source of financing for terrorist groups.

Dr. Al-Wohaibi seems eager to praise the Muslim World League who are:

From The New York Post

Saudi Arabia in this period also created its large Muslim international charities, such as the Muslim World League, which exported the kingdom's Wahhabi version of Islam. These charities were not nongovernmental entities or international organizations like the International Red Cross.

But the Saudi charities also facilitated the growth of Islamic militancy, subsidizing, for example, the flow of men and material to conflict areas. After the death of Abdullah Azzam in 1989, his successor, Osama bin Laden, used the charities to pay the salaries of his al Qaeda operatives around the world.

Dots connected; get the picture?