One of the largest Islamic charities in the United States, LIFE for Relief and Development, has used the ongoing crisis in Haiti to fund mosque expansion in Haiti.
Haiti has almost no Muslims. Even Islamic sources, which are notorious for wildly overestimating Muslim population levels, put the figure at 3,000 Muslims in the Caribbean nation out of nearly 9.9 million people. Reports indicate that as much as $3 million will be used to “renovate” 5 mosques.
You can rest assured that “renovate” in this case does not mean fix the roof, replace the broken windows and slap a coat of paint on the walls. Renovate almost always means enlarge and it was just this type of activity that some observers warned about when Islamic charities began to move in to Haiti following the disastrous earthquake. Islamic charities have historically used such disasters to conduct missionary work and the long-term mess in Haiti seems ripe for Saudi Wahhabi money…and everything that accompanies that money…
LIFE for Relief and Development’s past is not comforting at all.
The organization was founded in 1992 to send relief to Iraq, which was then under international sanctions for its illegal invasion of Kuwait and support for terrorism, among other things.
The organization operated in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and its operations there were raided by U.S. forces. Two years later the organization’s offices in the U.S. were raided by the FBI. Complete details and more are available at the excellent Investigative Project web site:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/626/another-ex-cair-official-in-legal-trouble
And here is the news story announcing LIFE’s mosque expansion operations in Haiti…
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX-89WSLT?OpenDocument
