Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
A second government official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said U.S. authorities think donations from Islam may have ended up helping to fund blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and Hamas, a Palestinian militant group considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel.
In July 2000, Islam was deported hours after arriving in Jerusalem. A local paper reported then that the government claimed he had delivered tens of thousands of dollars to Hamas during a visit in 1988. Islam denied ever knowingly supporting Islamic terrorists.
Islam has made a number of trips to the United States in recent years, including one in May for a charity event and to promote a DVD of his 1976 MajiKat tour. He donated half the royalties from his most recent boxed set to the Sept. 11 Fund to help victims of the attacks.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ne_diverted_22
The dude's a peace activist. That's the absolute most information I could find about why he was on the list, and that isn't exactly what I would call definitive.
Do you think the United States Government is going to sift through each person to find out if they "accidentally" or "knowingly" supported these places or not? Hell no, and I hope they don't.
They need to look through the documents, see who funded HAMAS and whomever else is a state-designated terrorist organization, and put those who donated to them on the list.
If a person who gets put on the list donated to a different charity, and *that* charity then gave it to the terrorist organization, then maybe that person should be a little more careful with what charity they give their money to, and make sure it's not being sent down the line to terrorist groups.