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UK: When charities fund Muslim fundamentalists
7 November 2010, by siawi2Source: The Telegraph (UK), 6 Nov 2010
Top charities give £200,000 to group which supported al-Qaeda cleric
The radical cleric accused of inspiring the cargo bomb plot has been backed by a prominent British campaign group which has financial (...) -
Feminism, Gender Politics and Resistance in Indian Democracy
14 April 2019, by siawi3Drawing out some of the implications of these processes of NGOisation and transnationalisation for activism and for activists on the ground.
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Comment le Qatar finance l’OPA des « Frères musulmans » sur les musulmans de France et d’Europe.
8 mai 2019, par siawi3La sournoise OPA des Frères musulmans sur l’ensemble des musulmans vivant en France, à terme plus dangereuse pour la République que le terrorisme, doit être mise au jour et dénoncée. « L’organisation d’un islam de France » voulue à tout prix par le gouvernement pourrait bien lui ouvrir un boulevard ! Un danger encore trop largement sous estimé.
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Turkey: When EU money goes into migrants’ repression
30 March 2018, by siawi3The European Union is funding military equipment used by Turkey to stop refugees from fleeing the Syrian Civil War and entering the EU
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Israël suspend les actions ayant conduit les Eglises à fermer le Saint-Sépulcre
27 février 2018, par siawi3Les chefs des Églises grecque orthodoxe, arménienne et catholique, qui partagent la garde du site, ont fait fermer dimanche l’église construite sur les lieux présumés de la crucifixion et du tombeau du Christ.
Le geste suffira-t-il à apaiser la situation ? Le gouvernement israélien a annoncé, mardi 27 février, la suspension des actions fiscales et législatives ayant conduit les Eglises à la décision exceptionnelle de fermer le Saint-Sépulcre, lieu le plus saint du christianisme à Jérusalem. -
Women’s movements in a changing world
7 March 2018, by siawi3Donors and CSO leaders encourage the depoliticisation and marginalisation of women’s political struggles. Donor pressures reshape the feminist movement as a social work project of service delivery to the most vulnerable.
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USA: Financing ISIS
15 December 2017, by siawi3A five-count indictment was unsealed earlier today in federal court in Central Islip, New York, charging Zoobia Shahnaz with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and three substantive counts of money laundering. As alleged in the indictment and court filings, the defendant defrauded numerous financial institutions and obtained over $85,000 in illicit proceeds, which she converted to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. She then laundered and transferred the funds out of the country to support the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS”), which has been designated by the U.S. Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organization.
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UK: One of the Islamic State terror group’s key financier was director of a Muslim faith school in Birmingham
9 September 2014, by siawi3Said Khalid Mahmood, MP: ’For too long this country has tolerated in its midst people who are actively working to destroy us and everything we stand for’. ’With the rise in the threat level, we can simply no longer allow it.’
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USA: Supreme Court to Take Up Case Involving Tax Credits That Help Religious Schools
30 June 2019, by siawi3The government was really just rewarding people for giving money to a religious school even if the law was theoretically secular. “The (tax credit) permits the Legislature to subsidize tuition payments at religiously-affiliated private schools,” Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote for the majority. “That type of government subsidy in aid of sectarian schools is precisely what the (constitutional) delegates intended (the constitution) to prohibit.”
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USA-Europe: Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian ‘fundamentalists’ pour millions of ‘dark money’ into Europe, boosting the far right
29 March 2019, by siawi3US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that have poured at least $50 million of ‘dark money’ into Europe over the last decade. Between them, these groups have backed ‘armies’ of ultra-conservative lawyers and political activists, as well as ‘family values’ campaigns against LGBT rights, sex education and abortion – and a number appear to have increasing links with Europe’s far right. They are spending money on a scale “not previously imagined”. “It took the Christian right 30 years to get to where they are now in the White House. We knew a similar effort was happening in Europe, but this should be a wake-up call that this is happening even faster and on a grander scale than many experts could have ever imagined.”