Muslim Aid Australia (MAA) is collecting funds for supplies that are being distributed in Gaza and Lebanon.(see http://www.muslimaid.org.au/)
MAA’s partner , in Gaza at least , is the Al-Huda Development Association[ see http://www.alhoda-pal.org/famillies.htm] as well as photos at ( http://www.muslimaid.org.au/Article.aspx?Id=39) ]
The Al-Hoda logo is clearly visible on the banner seen in 3 of the 4 photos.
The Al-Huda Development Association appears to have been reported to be affiliated with HAMAS.
The organisation listed at number 22 in the list provided at http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/finance/bank_ap6.htm, appears to be the same as the Al-Huda Development Association.
Al-Huda Association’s funds at the Arab Bank were frozen by Israeli authorities for terrorism related activities. (see report at http://www.intelligence.org.il/Eng/finance/img/july_12_04.pdf )
MAA is affiliated with Muslim Aid UK, which has been reported to have funded jihadist activities in Bosnia,and to have links to Al-Qaeda.
Muslim Aid has raised funds in Australia for other jihadist organisations.
MAA’s partners in Pakistan include the Al-Khidmat Foundation , an organization run under the auspices of fundamentalist Jamaat e Islami (see http://www.jamaat.org/)
A description of the JEI’s policies by B.Raman can be found at http://www.saag.org/papers/paper76.html.
These policies may be described as fundamentalist and/or jihadists, given their objectives of Muslim rule in all parts of the world and subjugation of non-Muslims under the sharia.
Raman has also described and analyzed links between the JEI and Al-Qaeda ; his article located at www.saag.org/papers7/paper699.html
The JEI’s branch in Bangladesh has been linked to acts of terrorism in that country.
(see http://www.india-defence.com/reports/959 )
More recently the JEI offered a bounty for the murder of the Danish illustrators who drew cartoons of Muhammad for the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
( see http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/540/print)
On Thursday, March 2 , 2006, Liaqat Balooch , president of the Al-Khidmat Foundation, and vice- president of the JEI visited the MAA’s offices in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaqat_Baloch AND http://www.muslimaid.org.au/Article.aspx?Id=31)
During meetings at the MAA office in Lakemba , Balooch is reported to have discussed the urgent need for funding the Kashmir earthquake relief effort; MAA says that it has already contributed AUD 120,000 to this effort.
(see http://www.muslimaid.org.au/Article.aspx?Id=31 )
In 2002, Pakistan’s Daily Times reported:
Vice president of the Jamaat-e-Islamic Liaquat Baloch stunned the world when he went on the record telling Daily Times shortly after the elections that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal(the Pakistani alliance of Islamist parties) would seek the release of amongst others Hafiz Saeed , leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
On Wednesday , 23 June 2006, Australia's SBS Dateline’s Ginny Stein reported that the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has assumed the name Jamaat-ud-Dawa since it was designated a terrorist organisation, has taken over a significant portion of the aid and relief work in the earthquake hit areas.This work includes the setting-up of orphanages cum schools where even English lessons are centered around the theme of dying for Allah.
(http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=archive&daysum=2006-06-21)
It is difficult to see how funds from Australia are not ultimately getting into the hands of the Jamaatud-Dawa,or if in fact the MMA/Al-Khidmat are the sole recepients, that their schools would be any different from those run by the Jamaat ud-Dawa.
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