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President Bush widened the “war on terrorism” Tuesday, freezing the assets of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a Texas-based Muslim charity he claims is part of the Hamas terrorist financial network...
Last year, the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) and the Society of Arab Students (SAS) organized a dinner to raise relief funds for Palestinians. The student organizations had considered donating a portion of the proceeds to HLF, the largest Muslim charity in the U.S.—an organization now accused of financing Hamas. A Palestinian militant group, Hamas claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings in Israel last weekend that killed 25 people...
...dinner, held at the end of Islamic Awareness Week in November, raised $1,758 for the Red Crescent, the Palestinian branch of the International Red Cross. Shah Mohammed said that for at least the last three years HIS has not donated money to HLF, and said he does not know whether HIS gave money to the group before that...
...Anti-Defamation League, an organization committed to “fighting anti-Semitism, bigotry and extremism,” has criticized both HLF and the Red Crescent in the past...
Yasin took issue with the State Department position on the HLF...