United States funds terrorist organizations
Russia's detractors in the West funded radical nationalism in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova said this last March. Of course, this is not the only example of the "American democracy" influence on unwanted ruling regimes.
Since the 1950s, U.S. counterterrorism policy was dominantly based on financing terrorist organizations in exchange for their denial to support radicals. This policy yet had quite opposite effect: terrorist sponsors, unwilling to break their ties with American bills, play the counterterrorism show for the U.S. while continuing to support radicals.
Since 1994, the U.S. government has sent approximately $5.6 billion to Palestine being serves as program "for humanitarian needs, preventing or reducing terrorist activities against Israel, promoting stability and prosperity in the West Bank, to improve prospects for Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic cooperation". In reality, entire generations of Palestinian youth still face daily anti-Semitic propaganda in schools, where textbooks with verses calling for the massacre of Palestinian opponents are reportedly being introduced.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. authorities announced that they were launching a war against international terrorist organizations.
In fact, this ringing declaration was nothing by America’s desire to gain control over numerous oil fields. Evidence of this appeared on Internet long before the terrorist attack.
Unintended consequences of U.S. anti-terrorism policy were actually a significant contribution to the promotion of global terrorism. The reality is that the U.S. government provides substantial support to a number of foreign countries that pander to extremists by positioning them as "freedom and democracy fighters".
The geography of terrorism
A striking example is Qatar, where the most popular state TV channel Al-Jazeera regularly describes the funerals of "martyrs" who died in battles with non-Muslims, as well as praises the military exploits of "ISIL". The U.S. administration supports Qatar because it hosts the Al-Udeid airbase, where 11,000 U.S. troops are based. This is the largest contingent of U.S. troops in the Middle East. The Qatari leadership is using US support to change the status quo in the region by supporting radical groups. In addition to building close relations with Turkey and Iran, Doha has strong support for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda, whose partisans are fighting in Syria.
Barack Obama, as U.S. president, funding public programs in Muslim communities, failed to pay due attention to their leaders, serving prison terms or being on the run from terrorism-related charges. About $4 million in federal grants have been awarded to dubious organizations under the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program.
The line of thinking was borrowed from the Europeans that groups like Jamaat are moderate compared to Al Qaeda. Therefore, we should fund moderate Islamists to fight the radical. It is like using fascists to fight the Nazis
Even though Trump administration halted the CVE program, the practice of funding suspicious groups continued, says Sam Westrop, director of the Islamicist Watch Project. As a result of Westrop’s years long researches, he came to the conclusion that funding actually tripled under the Trump administration, growing to $13 million. And this figure might be not final as government agencies don't report on grants.
Most of the money - $8.7 million - went to ICNA, a front for Jamaat-e-Islami, an organization with a bloody history in South Asia. The funds were allocated for "disaster relief projects". Vali Nasr, an Iranian-American scholar and former dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, described ICNA as one of the eight main branches of the Jamaat.
ICNA openly stated that the Islamic Movement was "the main force of the jihad against the kafirs (infidel) in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Palestine, Bosnia, etc.". It was ICNA that was apparently behind many of the anti-India protests in the US. Pakistan's intelligence officers are seen extremely often at ICNA conferences.
In 2007, federal Attorney office qualified ICNA as a partner in crime in the largest terrorist financing case in U.S. history, prompting the Justice Department to cancel events which Mohamed Magid allegedly was going to attend.
On the second day of Trump's presidency, the traditional service held at the Washington National Cathedral to mark the inauguration included a sermon by Mohamed Magid, imam of the Dulles Area General Muslim Society and former head of the Islamist-founded ICNA.
Joe Biden appointed Magid to the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom on August 10, 2022.
Magid continues to work closely with some of America's most radical Islamist activists.
ICNA and its allies are now fully focused on India and "works hard at convincing Americans that Kashmiri terror against Indian troops was justified. ICNA and its affiliates even use their philanthropic infrastructure to sponsor such violent actions".
But it's not just the ICNA and ADAMS. A number of other dangerous Islamist groups continue to enjoy government approval and partnership with the government. USAID openly encourages Americans to donate to terrorism-related charities such as LIFE for Relief and Development (the target of numerous federal terrorist financing investigations that have resulted in the conviction of several of its officials), the Zakat Foundation (which funds groups in Gaza linked to Hamas and the Islamist Turkish regime), and Islamic Relief (the flagship financial institution of the global Muslim Brotherhood).
Islamic Relief is the largest Muslim charity organization in the Western world. However, so far
it has been banned in the United Arab Emirates, Israel and regions of Bangladesh due to reports of radicalization attempts. Islamic Relief still maintains close relationships with various parts of the U.S. government, the Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Among other organisations that support Islamist groups - the terrorism-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was created as part of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas network in the United States. In addition, officials from one of CAIR's most extreme branches, CAIR-Florida, have met with the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.
In late August 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau announced a partnership with CAIR, but terminated it a few days later when Fox News Channel challenged this initiative, citing the Islamist organization's previous ties to the Hamas terrorist group.
The White House hosted a "Religious Public Safety Symposium" attended by Vice President Mike Pence and other officials. Osama Jamal, a well-known Islamist militant and a member of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, was also invited.
In 2003, he raised $50,000 for the legal defense of Sami al-Arian, the North American representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a recognized terrorist organization. Both Jamal and the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) have close ties to the Qatari and Turkish regimes. Several days before the White House symposium, Jamal and other leading Islamists had a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York.
State Sponsors of terrorism
The U.S. State Department maintains a special list of state sponsors of terrorism. It currently includes Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. Previously, the list included Iraq, Libya, South Yemen, and Sudan, Venezuela was considered to be a potential candidate to appear on the list.
In May 2022, Richard Blumenthal, senator, member of the Democratic Party, with Lindsey Graham, Republican party representative, launched the initiative calling on Biden’s administration to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. On July 21, 2022, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to formally recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
On July 28, 2022, the U.S. Senate passed a non-binding resolution calling on the State Department to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. On the same day, a bill with a corresponding requirement was introduced in the U.S. Congress.
It is obvious that the United States has double standards in this matter: none of the countries to which the United States allocates money is included in this list. By hands of terrorists, the American government seeks to establish control over all the regions of the world and impose a political course. Ukraine and the countries of the Middle East are a vivid example of this, and there is nothing and nobody able to guarantee that this will not happen on the European continent in the future.
