A key financial backer of the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero has, in the past, donated funds to a US-based Hamas-linked group. Egyptian-born businessman Hisham Elzanaty is believed to have made “a significant investment” in the controversial Ground Zero mosque project.
According to FoxNews, in 1999, Elzanaty donated over $6,000 to the “Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development,” also known as HLF. In 2001, the US federal government shut down the organization and designated it a terror group.
HLF was the largest Islamic charity in the US in the 1990s, raising millions of dollars and telling donors the money would fund schools, orphanages and social welfare programs.
Elzanaty’s attorney said that his client believed at the time that he was donating to an orphanage.
When the foundation’s leaders were indicted, Attorney General John Ashcroft said, the case was not “a reflection on the well-meaning people who may have donated funds to the foundation.”
In 2008, a federal court found five HLF leaders guilty of providing support to Hamas.
{Ynet/Matzav.com}
why did matzav print a decptive headline which leads it leaders to believe that when the donor donated money in the 1990’s to the charity HLF he knew he was donating to a charity that had certain ties to hamas ( though the money didnt largely i nany way go to terror)
why does matzav want it readers to conclude false things about the world?
To #1 G.O.
WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS DEFENDING MUSLIM TERRORISTS?!?!?!!
(I wonder what your genuine name is ! MOHAMED?!?!)