 From CAN: The Muslims of the Americas group, accused of being a radical Islamic paramilitary group by the Christian Action Network, is said by a law enforcement source to be engaging in systematic tax fraud, reported the My Pet Jawa blog on January 4. Members of MOA follow a Pakistan-based cleric named Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who they believe speaks on behalf of Allah.
MOA is said to be a front for a Pakistani group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra. The source told the blog that most of the male residents of MOA’s headquarters in New York, called Islamberg, have left the compound to be educated in how to engage in tax fraud. According to the report, mosques around New York City, specifically in Brooklyn and the Bronx, are complicit in the plan by recruiting followers for the operation.
“Using information from these mosque attendees, the tax fraud operation will then use that information to file false tax returns (probably without the knowledge of the tax filer) and collect 24 hour rapid returns,” the blog says. “A referral fee is given to the imam and the remainder of the money will then be forwarded overseas to accounts controlled by Gilani. The filer is then on the hook for the fraud if it is discovered.” The report follows the release of a new videotape by the Christian Action Network that shows female members of the Islamberg site learning guerilla warfare tactics. The tape shows members simulating ambushes and firing guns into a lake, learning hand-to-hand combat techniques, scaling fabricated walls, practicing fighting with swords and slitting throats, and marching in military fatigue. The video substantiated the main allegations in the Christian Action Network’s documentary, “Homegrown Jihad,” released in February 2009, regarding the threat posed by the Muslims of the Americas group. The Northeast Intelligence Network recently released a report on the activities on Jamaat ul-Fuqra/Muslims of the Americas.
NEIN found that members of the group had moved paramilitary training to national forests and mosques and Islamic centers in New York. World Threats 
 Two civil lawsuits filed by Muslims alleging criminal fraud were served today against the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a self-described Muslim civil-rights group that has been named an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator by the Justice Department. The cases filed in federal court in the nation's capital assert the D.C.-based CAIR was aware that its "resident attorney" and "manager for civil rights" at its now-defunct Maryland-Virginia chapter, Morris Days, was not an attorney and failed to provide legal services for Muslims who came to CAIR for help. The complaint alleges CAIR purposefully conspired with Days to keep the clients from discovering that their legal matters were being mishandled or not handled at all, according to attorney David Yerushalmi, who is representing the five plaintiffs, three of whom are Muslims. "CAIR has engaged in a massive criminal fraud in which literally hundreds of CAIR clients have been victimized, and because of the CAIR cover-up, they still don't realize it," Yerushalmi said. "The fact that CAIR has victimized Muslims and non-Muslims alike demonstrates that CAIR is only looking out for CAIR and its ongoing effort to bilk donors out of millions of dollars of charitable donations thinking they are supporting a legitimate organization." Meanwhile, CAIR is engaged in a lawsuit it filed against a father and son who carried out a six-month undercover investigation of the Muslim group's terrorist ties. CAIR is suing P. David Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, who posed as a Muslim in an internship with CAIR's national office in Washington.
During that period, the younger Gaubatz made audio and video recordings and took some 12,000 pages of documents destined for a shredder in an attempt, he said, to expose the group's ties to Islamic jihad and terrorism. Key evidence has been published in the book "Muslim Mafia," published by WND Books. His father is a former Air Force special agent with extensive Middle East experience who researches the spread of radical Islam in the U.S. and its threat to national security. The two new lawsuits follow a previous suit centered on Days that alleged CAIR's fraudulent conduct amounted to racketeering, under federal RICO statutes. A court dismissed the RICO counts, concluding CAIR's conduct as alleged was fraudulent but not a technical violation of RICO. The plaintiffs in that case have appealed and are awaiting the circuit court's briefing schedule, Yerushalmi said. The two new federal civil complaints were filed Jan. 6 in the federal district court for the District of Columbia. The complaints say that according to CAIR internal documents, there were hundreds of victims of the fraud scheme. The suits contend CAIR knew or should have known Days was not a lawyer when it hired him. Further, when CAIR officials were confronted with evidence of Days' fraudulent conduct, the complaints say, they conspired to conceal the fraud. CAIR, the complaints assert, suggested Days was never actually employed by CAIR and concealed the fact CAIR had fired him once some of the victims began threatening to sue. More at WND
 Underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip are the only way for millions of dollars worth of essential supplies to get past Israel's siege of the coastal territory. But it has now emerged that at least 40,000 Gazans have lost their life savings in a scheme that promised up to 50 per cent profits in return for an investment in tunnel trading. Hamas, which has de facto control of Gaza, returned a fraction of the $100m that disappeared through the scheme, and has said that is investigating the fraud. However, with hundreds of middlemen as yet unpunished and many of them rumoured to have had links to Hamas, the duped Gazans say that more should be done. Al Jazeera's Zeina Awad reports from Gaza. Al Jazeera
 Climategate, a non-story to ABC warmists, could now derail the Copenhagen summit, claims one of the negotiators: Saudi Arabia’s lead climate negotiator… Mohammad Al-Sabban told BBC News that the issue will have a “huge impact” on next week’s UN climate summit, with countries unwilling to cut emissions… Mr Al-Sabban made clear that he expects it to derail the single biggest objective of the summit - to agree limitations on greenhouse gas emissions. ”It appears from the details of the scandal that there is no relationship whatsoever between human activities and climate change,” he told BBC News. “Climate is changing for thousands of years, but for natural and not human-induced reasons. So, whatever the international community does to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have no effect on the climate’s natural variability.” Some other countries shared this view, he said; and as a result, governments would not be prepared to countenance agreeing anything that would affect economic growth for many years, until “new evidence” settled the scientific picture… Mr Al-Sabban said the UN summit should encourage a “full investigation” of the CRU e-mails affair. Andrew Bolt
 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas talks
during the Fatah party convention in Bethlehem THE ruling faction of the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, appeared to be in chaos yesterday amid reports of mass resignations and claims this week's election was fraudulent. The allegation of fraud in the election of Fatah's new central committee was made by Ahmed Qurei, a former prime minister in the Palestinian Authority, who suggested the election was rigged to ensure that candidates who were close to Israel were elected. In an interview in the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, Mr Qurei, who was an unsuccessful candidate this week for the central committee, said: "There are many big question marks about the election, the way it was conducted and the way the votes were counted. There were behind-the-scenes arrangements that removed some names and added others to the list." He described three successful candidates who he said were close to Israel as "rubber stamps" -- Mohammed Dahlan, Jibril Rajoub and Tawfik Tirawi. "Was it by coincidence that these men won?" he said. The claim of fraud came amid reports of large-scale resignations in protest at the outcome of elections held at this week's conference. The Jerusalem Post reported that every member of Fatah's higher committee in the Gaza Strip had submitted their resignations in protest at what one of them described as "massive fraud" in the election for the central committee. It said the resignations were seen as a serious embarrassment for Fatah and its leader Mahmoud Abbas. Read more here ... Source: The Australian
By Charles Krauthammer | June 19 Millions of Iranians take to the streets to defy a theocratic dictatorship that, among its other finer qualities, is a self-declared enemy of America and the tolerance and liberties it represents. The demonstrators are fighting on their own, but they await just a word that America is on their side. And what do they hear from the president of the United States? Silence. Then, worse. Three days in, the president makes clear his policy: continued "dialogue" with their clerical masters. Dialogue with a regime that is breaking heads, shooting demonstrators, expelling journalists, arresting activists. Engagement with -- which inevitably confers legitimacy upon -- leaders elected in a process that begins as a sham (only four handpicked candidates permitted out of 476) and ends in overt rigging. Then, after treating this popular revolution as an inconvenience to the real business of Obama-Khamenei negotiations, the president speaks favorably of "some initial reaction from the Supreme Leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election." Where to begin? "Supreme Leader"? Note the abject solicitousness with which the American president confers this honorific on a clerical dictator who, even as his minions attack demonstrators, offers to examine some returns in some electoral districts -- a farcical fix that will do nothing to alter the fraudulence of the election. Moreover, this incipient revolution is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for the eruption of anti-regime fervor that has been simmering for years and awaiting its moment. But people aren't dying in the street because they want a recount of hanging chads in suburban Isfahan. They want to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy that has imposed itself with the very baton-wielding goons that today attack the demonstrators. This started out about election fraud. But like all revolutions, it has far outgrown its origins. What's at stake now is the very legitimacy of this regime -- and the future of the entire Middle East. This revolution will end either as a Tiananmen (a hot Tiananmen with massive and bloody repression or a cold Tiananmen with a finer mix of brutality and co-optation) or as a true revolution that brings down the Islamic Republic. The latter is improbable but, for the first time in 30 years, not impossible. Imagine the repercussions. It would mark a decisive blow to Islamist radicalism, of which Iran today is not just standard-bearer and model, but financier and arms supplier. It would do to Islamism what the collapse of the Soviet Union did to communism -- leave it forever spent and discredited. In the region, it would launch a second Arab spring. The first in 2005 -- the expulsion of Syria from Lebanon, the first elections in Iraq and early liberalization in the Gulf states and Egypt -- was aborted by a fierce counterattack from the forces of repression and reaction, led and funded by Iran. Now, with Hezbollah having lost elections in Lebanon and with Iraq establishing the institutions of a young democracy, the fall of the Islamist dictatorship in Iran would have an electric and contagious effect. The exception -- Iraq and Lebanon -- becomes the rule. Democracy becomes the wave. Syria becomes isolated; Hezbollah and Hamas, patronless. The entire trajectory of the region is reversed. All hangs in the balance. The Khamenei regime is deciding whether to do a Tiananmen. And what side is the Obama administration taking? None. Except for the desire that this "vigorous debate" (press secretary Robert Gibbs's disgraceful euphemism) over election "irregularities" not stand in the way of U.S.-Iranian engagement on nuclear weapons. Even from the narrow perspective of the nuclear issue, the administration's geopolitical calculus is absurd. There is zero chance that any such talks will denuclearize Iran. On Monday, President Ahmadinejad declared yet again that the nuclear "file is shut, forever." The only hope for a resolution of the nuclear question is regime change, which (if the successor regime were as moderate as pre-Khomeini Iran) might either stop the program, or make it manageable and nonthreatening. That's our fundamental interest. And our fundamental values demand that America stand with demonstrators opposing a regime that is the antithesis of all we believe. And where is our president? Afraid of "meddling." Afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of terror -- and the people in the street yearning to breathe free. This from a president who fancies himself the restorer of America's moral standing in the world. Source: Washington Post
 An Iranian woman holds up a picture of the latest
crackdown by Iranian police on
reformist protesters in TehranJune 17 FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has branded Iran's election result a fraud as the international outcry over the security forces' crackdown on the opposition in Tehran intensifies. Governments from Asia to Europe and the Americas voiced concern about the violence that erupted on Monday during rallies protesting the hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election with US President Barack Obama saying he had “deep concerns” but did not want to meddle in Iran's affairs.
Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith expressed his disquiet over “images of serious human rights abuses that we've seen on camera and in photos”.
In Japan, Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said his country was “extremely concerned” about the situation.
Sarkozy said the unrest was a direct result of Ahmadinejad's failings in his first term.
“The extent of the fraud is proportional to the violent reaction,” the French leader today.
“It is a tragedy, but it is not negative to have a real opinion movement that tries to break its chains,” Sarkozy said.
“If Ahmadinejad has really made progress since the last election and if he really represents two thirds of the electorate ... why has this violence erupted?”
At least seven people were killed on Monday in street battles between the security forces and supporters of Iran's former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi who claim that their man was cheated of victory in Friday's poll.
Protesters took to the streets in capitals across Europe, including in London where hundreds outside the Iranian embassy demanded Tehran authorities “give our vote back” and “stop shooting people in Iran”.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said questions about the validity of the vote's outcome needed to be answered and that the violent scenes threatened Iran's standing.
“The regime must address the serious questions which have been asked about the conduct of the Iranian elections,” said Brown.
“The way the regime responds to legitimate protests will have implications for Iran's relationships with the rest of the world in the future.”
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said there “must be an end to the violence carried out by the security forces on demonstrators” while his Dutch counterpart Maxime Verhagen summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires.
“It cannot be that peaceful demonstrations are broken up violently,” a statement issued by his office said.
Rights groups also denounced the bloody crackdown with the New York-based Human Rights Watch saying the Ahmadinejad government “has a responsibility to stop the use of unlawful force against protesters”.
Despite the welter of criticism, Iran remained defiant and diplomats from Britain and the Czech Republic - the current holders of the EU presidency - were summoned in protest.
“Neither the European Union nor other countries are in a position to have the right to make rude and interfering remarks against Iran, especially about our glorious election,” Czech charge d'affaires Josef Havlas was told.
Obama meanwhile said he would not meddle in internal Iranian politics - reflecting a more widespread reluctance of governments to be sucked into the maelstrom.
“I have said before that I have deep concerns about the election. I think that the world has deep concerns about the election,” Obama said.
“It is not productive, given the history of US-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling - the US president meddling in Iranian elections.”
The government in Russia - Iran's key ally - said it was not up to outsiders to judge what was going on in Iran.
“The issue of the elections in Iran is an internal affair of the Iranian people,” Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, where Ahmadinejad was attending a summit.
In defiant comments there, Ahmadinejad sent a message to the West: “The international capitalist order is retreating ... It is absolutely obvious that the age of empires has ended and its revival will not take place.”
 Mirna Sleiman | March 10
DUBAI'S public prosecutor has indicted several businessmen and former bank executives on charges of bribery and fraud, alleging they defrauded Dubai Islamic Bank of more than 1.84 billion UAE dirhams ($791 million), an official bill of indictment shows.
Amid several government probes in the city-state, a handful of executives at some of Dubai's leading real-estate and financial firms have been detained for questioning.
In the past several years, analysts say, regulation in Dubai has failed to keep up with the pace of growth. In the good times, investors didn't fret much about such shortcomings. Now, as the economy slows, regulators are trying to rein in the offshore boomtown.
The bill of indictment is the latest event in a months-long investigation at DIB. The largest traded Islamic lender in the United Arab Emirates, DIB is a major force in Islamic banking in the Middle East.
The prosecution's bill of indictment - which formally notifies suspects that charges have been brought against them - names seven suspects in the case, two of whom have fled the country, according to the bill of indictment seen by Zawya Dow Jones.
According to the bill of indictment, British businessmen Charles Ridley and Ryan Cornelius, along with Turkish businessman Erin Nil, embezzled $US501 million from DIB through forged invoices and fake deals. The alleged deals were done between 2004 and 2007, according to the bill of indictment.
Former DIB employees Omair Mooraj and Rifat Usmani, both holders of Pakistani passports, are accused of receiving a total of $US1.7 million in alleged bribes to facilitate the financing of the deals, according to the bill of indictment. Zia Usmani, identified as a US businessman, is also accused in the bill of defrauding the bank of $US2 million.
Zia Usmani and Mr Nil have left Dubai, according to the bill of indictment. Zawya Dow Jones was unable to make contact with either man or their representatives. The other men have been detained by Dubai police, according to the bill of indictment.
Dubai police also are holding Arthur Fitzwilliam, the British owner of Dubai-based real-estate developer Plantation Holdings, in connection with the case, according to the bill of indictment.
Habib Al Mulla, a Dubai-based lawyer representing Mr Mooraj, told Zawya Dow Jones on Monday that he will "defend his client in court rigorously by all legal means."
"We believe he has not violated any applicable laws in the country," Mr. Al Mulla said. Mr. Al Mulla confirmed that the case has now been referred to court.
Dubai Public Prosecution officials couldn't be reached for comment. Dubai Islamic Bank officials weren't available for further comment on the case.
DIB shares fell 0.9 per cent on Monday to 2.29 dirhams on the Dubai Financial Market. The stock is down about 75 per cent since the beginning of June. Source: The Australian
By Jamie Glazov FrontPage Interview’s guest today is David Yerushalmi, a litigator specializing in securities law, public policy relating to national security, and public interest law. He has been practicing law for almost 25 years. He serves as general counsel to several policy think tanks including the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. headed up by former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney and the Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies in Potomac, Maryland. Mr. Yerushalmi is the author of an upcoming Utah Law Review article examining in-depth the civil liability and criminal exposure for U.S. financial institutions engaged in Shariah-compliant finance. He is licensed and practices in Washington D.C., New York, California, and Arizona. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was founded by members of Hamas and at least three of its employees were convicted of plotting against the United States while still on its payroll. Yet the self-described public interest law firm continues to operate with impunity in Washington, the capital of the same government it wishes to overthrow. That could soon change, however, and CAIR will have only itself to blame. In a 66-page civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, CAIR has been accused of fraud and racketeering for allegedly hiring a fake attorney to represent local Muslims, and then covering up the fraud by coercing clients who demanded a refund into signing a secrecy agreement in violation of professional ethics. Read more ...Source: Washington Examiner
 THE HAGUE, 14/11/08 - Nearly nine out of 10 Islamic schools in the Netherlands spend government subsidies unlawfully. The education ministry confirmed yesterday following a report in De Telegraaf that 86 percent of the schools make fraudulent use of money.
De Telegraaf obtained a study by State Secretaries Sharon Dijksma and Marja van Bijsterveldt of Education of the 41 primary schools and two secondary schools that provide Islamic education. At half of the schools, the quality of the education is assessed as weak to very weak. At normal schools, this figure is 11 percent.
Additionally, financial mismanagement was established at 86 percent of Islamic school managements. The illegal spending ranges from salaries to 'teachers' who turn out to be the wives of management board members, unlawful payments for transport that is never hired and even, as already made known earlier, trips to Saudi Arabia - the school (Ibn Ghaldoun in Rotterdam) bought plane tickets for Muslims who had nothing to do with the school whatsoever.
The Islamic education "gives ground for great concern," said Dijksma and Van Bijsterveldt yesterday. The education ministry is trying to claim back 4.5 million euros in unlawfully spent subsidies from the schools. This is an increase of 2.5 million from fraud figures previously known.
Due to the constitutional freedom of education - every religion can set up its own school at the expense of the government - the government sees little possibility of intervening. No Islamic school has ever been closed. Virtually nothing can be done against fraudulent school managers either.
Dijksma and Van Bijsterveldt hope that the Islamic schools themselves will introduce reforms. The weak and very weak Islamic schools will come under "intensive supervision" by the Education Inspectorate. And "if the position of the management board becomes insupportable, the ministry will push for the removal of the board," they write to the Lower House. Source: NIS
The imam of the Al Bader mosque in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) was indicted Tuesday for regularly celebrating religious marriage before the civil marriage and for unemployment fraud, and placed under judicial supervision, according to a judicial source. A judicial inquiry was started the same day. The imam, Nourdine Mamoun (33), a French citizen, was banned from meeting husbands and marriage witnesses, and from leaving the country. He is suspected of having celebrated 8 illegal marriages from Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2007 and of having improperly received a monthly allowance of 930 euro from Assedic (the French unemployment agency) from Aug. 2007 till today. Read more ...Source: Le Monde H/T: Islam in Europe
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