Muslim Charity Found Guilty of Supporting Terrorsim

Today the United States fight against terrorism was handed a significant victory as the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim Charity, and five of its former leaders were convicted of funneling money to terrorists in the Middle East. Specifically they were charged with funneling money to the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

The seven day jury trial ended with the defendants being found guilty of all 108 counts levied against them. Here is a list of some of the charges that this group faced:

Supporting a specially designated terrorist
Money laundering
Tax fraud
Conspiracy
Conspiracy to support a terrorist organization

I will spare you the details of this case. You can read the ABC article for yourself. I will just add a few of my thoughts here.

After the guilty verdict was handed down, the daughter of former Holy Land Chairman Ghassan Elashi made the claim that the jury “fell for the prosecutions fear-mongering theory.” I understand that this woman was distraught that her father had been convicted of a multitude of crimes, so I would have been willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. But she decided to keep running her mouth. She went on to say that she was proud of her father and at that he was being persecuted for his political beliefs. No Mrs. Noor, your father was prosecuted for breaking the laws of the United States of America. If you have a problem with that, then I think that you should take a few civics lessons.