[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 122 (Friday, July 27, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H8814]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
U.S. CHARITIES HELP HAMAS
(Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute.)
Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, it seems the terrorist group Hamas may have
been receiving money from a U.S.-based fake charity organization that
funds Hamas's reigns of terror in the Middle East, all under the
hypocritical name of compassion and goodwill. A Dallas, Texas, Muslim
charity has been charged with pouring millions of dollars into a
terrorist slush fund that is bent on destroying Israel and the United
States.
While the charity denies any wrongdoing, of course, prosecutors say
money went straight to Hamas and some of the money went to aid families
of suicide bombers. But this self-righteous ``charity'' says they are
innocent.
The charity claims they were sending money for humanitarian efforts
in Palestine. Madam Speaker, the fanatical terrorist group Hamas is not
a humanitarian organization. They kill humanitarians.
If nonprofit organizations in the United States are aiding terrorist
organizations in their devastation, destruction, and death, they should
be held accountable. If this charity is a fraud, then the money should
be confiscated and given to victims of terrorism. And then the charity
organizers ought to go to jail.
And that's just the way it is.
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