Amazon allowed UK users to donate to Islamic group whose leader is “misogynistic, racist and homophobic” and called for a global Islamic caliphate

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Meanwhile, my group the American Freedom Defense Initiative, although it is a registered 501c3 organization, is banned from AmazonSmile. So is Jihad Watch, another 501c3 organization. The Alliance for Defending Freedom has been banned from AmazonSmile as well. Amazon clearly only considers Leftist charitable organizations and — as evidenced by this story, hardline, pro-jihad, pro-sharia Islamic groups — to be charitable organizations at all. This is all part of the ongoing attempt to extend and preserve the dominance of the hard-left, while driving all those who dissent from the far-left agenda entirely out of the public square. It’s unconscionable.

“Amazon sent ‘charity’ donations to group led by ‘hardcore Islamist,’ report says,” by Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, October 8, 2018 (thanks to Mark):

Amazon has allowed its U.K. users to donate money to a group whose key figure has espoused hardline Islamist beliefs described as “misogynistic, racist and homophobic” and called for a global Islamic caliphate, the Times of London reported Monday.

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The Muslim Research and Development Fund (MRDF) is one of several groups that have received donations through Amazon Smile, which launched in the U.K. last year. Under the program, shoppers can select an organization which will receive 0.5 percent of the purchase price of Amazon products.

Haitham al-Haddad, the MRDF’s founder and former chairman, has been called “one of the most dangerous men in Britain” by the counter-extremist Quilliam Foundation due to his adherence to the Salafi movement within Sunni Islam. Terror groups such as Al Qaeda have embraced Salafism’s tenants of jihad across the world.

Amazon has allowed its U.K. users to donate money to the Muslim Research and Development Fund, a group whose key figure has espoused beliefs described as “misogynistic, racist and homophobic,” according to a report.

According to the Times, while Haddad has criticized terrorist attacks against “innocent civilians,” he also has stated that Muslims ultimately will conquer “the enemies of Islam” and establish a regime that will deploy the death penalty for adultery and refusing to follow the Muslim faith.

“I have received so many requests from western women who committed adultery,” the Times quoted Haddad as saying in 2012. “They were begging me to help them to find a way to a Muslim country to be stoned to death.” Spokesmen for Haddad previously have said that his statements were taken out of context.

Sara Khan, the British government’s counter-extremism commissioner, told the paper that Haddad’s views “promote a supremacist ‘us versus them’ worldview that wrongly makes Muslims feel that they can’t be fully British.”

In a statement obtained by Fox News, Amazon said it relied on a regulator, the Charity Commission for England and Wales, to determine which organizations were eligible to take part in Amazon Smile….

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ConnectingDots
ConnectingDots
5 years ago

AmazonSmile DOES allow designation of PragerU as one’s charity of choice.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  ConnectingDots

Really? Wow, I didn’t know that, I picked the Salvation Army and the Research Hospital as my choices in the past.

ConnectingDots
ConnectingDots
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

AmazonSmile lets you pick a different choice (on Amazon’s “allowed” list, unfortunately) at any time.

movingwaters
movingwaters
5 years ago
Reply to  ConnectingDots

probably not for long. I think the best answer to Amazon is to take one’s business elsewhere, even if you pay just a little bit more.

TheTruthBurns
TheTruthBurns
5 years ago

Amazon’s Business Model is to put All other businesses in the World OUT OF BUSINESS! Amazon pays No Taxes, No Shipping Costs & utilizes virtual Slave Labor conditions & LOVES CHINESE COMMUNISM!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  TheTruthBurns

Trump is right again!
We, as taxpayers are subsidizing their USPS mail deliveries.
This is hurting small and medium sized business that have to pay for it like the rest of us.
It allows them to knock out other businesses and be global monopolies.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

They are aided by the dumb , ignorant Left/Liberal loons coming out of colleges/schools run by pro-jihadi left/liberal loons

And by the time they realise their stupidity they get assaulted , gang raped or murdered like this couple its too late for them https://tinyurl.com/yahupccy

Problem is they enable evil while not able to see evil thanks to pro-jihadi left/liberal indoctrination in schools/colleges where real history of islam and America is no longer taught.

TD
TD
5 years ago

“while Haddad has criticized terrorist attacks against “innocent civilians,” he also has stated that Muslims ultimately will conquer”

There’s that TAQIYA maneuver that professional journalists still can’t spot.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  TD

I think the see it and support it.
Their sheer hatred of Judeo Christian principles blinds them.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

So much for big companies not being biased politically.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Jeff Bozos and Mark Suckerberg afraid of Moslems. Want to unite with them. Cowards that worship money and power deserve neither.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Money and power is their god.
They are just tools for evil.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Donating to charity is also a form of freedom of speech.
Today, freedom of speech goes in ONE direction.
They know MONEY is a voice and will not allow it to support an opposing view.

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