[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21154]
[From the U.S. 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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