Sponsor of National Prayer Breakfast received money from alleged terrorist group

[BurtWorm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101306667.html?wprss=rss_politics


A group of Ohio ministers has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the organization that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast because it received money six years ago from an alleged Islamic terrorist organization trying to finance illicit lobbying.

ClergyVoice, the activist group that wrote to the IRS commissioner Wednesday, complained that the Fellowship Foundation violated its obligation as a tax-exempt organization not to deal with such entities.

The foundation, an Arlington-based religious enterprise associated with a house at 133 C St. SE where several members of the House and Senate have rented rooms, acknowledged Wednesday that it had received two $25,000 checks, in May and June 2004, from the Missouri-based Islamic American Relief Agency.

The charity was included on a Senate Finance Committee list of terrorist financiers in January of that year.

The foundation said the agency's money was neither retained nor used to finance foreign trips it has organized for lawmakers such as Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). The group's vetting of donors has been tightened, President Richard E. Carver said in an interview Wednesday. "Hopefully, we would not see a repeat of this kind of experience," he added.


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[toddwv]

1. The Fellowship Foundation aka "The Family"

Here's hoping the IRS crushes that den of vipers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F3nDIdHcnE

[BurtWorm]

2. Exactly.

:patriot:

The same people I'm sure are complaining about Park 51's funding sources.