August 14, 2008, - 11:46 am
Meet the New Terrorism Apologists, er “Charity Investigators” . . . The Better Business Bureau?
By Debbie Schlussel
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Extremist Muslim charities throughout America are upset their donations are down. They’re not upset that most Americans believe they finance terrorism abroad–as they usually do. They’re just upset that Muslims are starting to give them less because of it. Oh, and by the way, it’s not that American Muslims are against financing terrorism–in fact, they support it wholeheartedly. It’s just that they don’t want to get implicated in the legal crossfire and want to protect their own butts.
So, now, some Muslim charities–through some BS PR outfit, called Muslim Advocates–are partnering up with the Better Business Bureau, in an effort to get that kosher seal of approval. The BBB is apparently going to “vet” the charities and make sure they don’t give money to the wrong places. Riiiight.
Absurd.
According to Wall Street Journal Palestinian reporter and Islamist apologist Tamara Audi, the Better Business Bureau will insist that boards of Islamic charities meet more often and provide a “detailed accounting of how the money collected by the charity is spent.”
Yes, forcing jihadists on American soil to meet more often will ensure that they don’t spend their charity’s money on terrorism. Uh-huh. That’ll work. Ditto for the “detailed accounting.”
Puh-leeze. The Better Business Bureau personnel are not terrorist investigators. They don’t trek to Afghanistan to see whether $60,000 that HAMAS/Al-Qaeda charity LIFE For Relief and Development raised in the name of “wheelchairs for the handicapped,” is not really going to Taliban mujahideen who make people handicapped and put them in wheelchairs. Are they gonna travel to Jalalabad and visit each alleged wheelchair recipient? Hello . . .?
I, myself, am no fan of the Better Business Bureau. I know from first-hand experience that their certification and approval process is a fraud and doesn’t mean a whit. And I don’t trust them.
Several years ago, I hired a mover who got the Better Business Bureau’s seal of approval. The guy held my clothes and property hostage for over a week, demanding a much-increased price from what was agreed upon. He called my parents’ home and told me he was wearing my dresses and underwear, then made graphic disgusting sexual comments about how he’d rape me. He also called and impersonated several different individuals.
When we tried to determine his address, we discovered the one he used was a fake. We also discovered that the address to which his truck was licensed by the Department of Transportation was an apartment occupied by someone who hadn’t a clue about any of this–another fake address.
Yet, the Better Business Bureau sang this sleazebag nutjob’s praises. And to date, he uses their seal, with their full endorsement, despite my complaints. My experience taught me that the name, “Better Business Bureau,” is phony. In my case the mover I used was not a “better” business, not even an “okay” business. He was a horror story.
If the Better Business Bureau can’t do even a basic investigation to track a phony address of a local mover, they ain’t gonna catch the many irregularities and scams engaged in by many Islamic charities in America who spend their money overseas on nefarious causes.
I never thought I’d say this, but the BBB is even more incompetent than the FBI. And that’s really saying something. Just ask Steven Hatfill.
Don’t trust the Better Business Bureau’s approval of Muslim charities. It’s probably worth less than stacks of S&H green stamps (remember those?) and a couple of BetaMax tapes.
**** UPDATE: A friend of mine who is very familiar with a lot of the Islamic charities talks send me this e-mail about this ruse, with regard to Islamic Relief-Worldwide, a HAMAS/Muslim Brotherhood charity about which I’ve written a great deal (and about its biggest funder–Mitt Romney’s church):
I am sure you are familiar with Charity Navigator. This organization judges charities and gives them a one, two, three or four star rating. Islamic Relief (which for some strange reason partners with the Mormon church) often makes a point of their four star rating, and Mormon leaders often point to that fact when they appear at IRW events.
It is very tempting to want to remind these otherwise good people that Charity Navigator’s judgement is not based on the final destination of the monies received. It is based on such considerations as: is the overhead unreasonably high; does the chair of the charity take a unreasonably high salary, etc. The Muslims who run the charities would die of starvation before they would take a dime of the charity’s money to buy food; But they would hand over the money to Hamas.
BBB = Building Bigger Bombs
BBB = Better Bomb Belts
BBB = Bringing Back Barbarism
Thee_Bruno on August 14, 2008 at 1:04 pm