More Madrasses's for downtown Manhattan,YEAH!
THREE years ago, an Islamic charity in Saudi Arabia
gave 10m riyals ($2.7m) to an Afghan religious scholar to build a mosque,
two football-fields and a school in a rural area just outside Quetta, a
city in Pakistan close to the border with Afghanistan. When the charity
checked the project recently, says Nawaf Obaid, a Saudi analyst, it found
that nothing had been bought except a piece of barren land with rubbish
on it. Most of the money had disappeared, along with the Afghan scholar.
The charity fears that it found its way to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda
terrorists.
People trying to track down al-Qaeda's money believe that charities are
terrorists' biggest source of money. The problem arises, says David
Aufhauser, general counsel of America's Treasury Department, partly
because charities have outposts in areas of conflict: their networks
reach out to what he calls the world's �breeding-grounds for terrorists�.
MORE ON...
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632610
and breeding grounds?
http://www.mediatransparency.org/faithbased_watch.htm
