Canada revokes Daffy Qaddafi’s fake charity

While Muslim American charities associated with the Muslim Brotherhood are hard at work in Libya, Muamar “Daffy” Qaddafi’s own problematic “charity” has had its nontaxable status revoked by the Canada Revenue Agency.

The World Islamic Call Society serves as a sort of Libyan version of the Goethe Institut, but instead of teaching interested foreigners about the German language and culture, WICS established sites around the world, including Canada, to help channel money to Islamic projects including terrorism.

The most famous project funded by the Canadian branch of WICS was the JFK airport bomb plot in New York in 2007.  That constitutes legal use of zakat under Islamic law, but not proper charity work under Canadian tax law.

Here’s the solid reporting from the Ottowa Citizen on May 7, h/t GMBDR:

Gadhafi charity in Canada linked to terrorism

Government revokes status of World Islamic Call Society

By GARY DIMMOCK, The Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA — The Harper government has revoked the registration of a longtime Canadian charity that it says was established as a front by Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi to funnel money to terrorists the world over — including a Muslim militant cell implicated in a 2007 plot to blow up JFK airport in New York City.

According to government documents obtained by the Citizen, the World Islamic Call Society, based in London, Ont., has been transferring money from Gadhafi’s “Jihad fund” to bank accounts of known terrorists.

A payment of $170,814.20 was made to Jamaat al-Muslimeen, a terrorist group known for a campaign of rape, torture and murder, according to the documents. This same group once attempted to overthrow the elected government of Trinidad and Tobago.

Canada Revenue Agency financial documents also show that the Canadian charity transferred $10,000 directly to the terrorist group’s leader, Yasin Abu Bakr.

In Gadhafi’s scheme, according to federal government files, money was wired in U.S. funds to the personal bank account of Assem Fadel, then transferred to the bank account of the World Islamic Call Society’s Canadian branch, only to be distributed to known terrorist organizations.

Fadel, 75, is the president of the Islamic Call Society’s sole Canadian franchise, located on Kent Street in London, Ont.

“The allegations are unbelievable,” Fadel said, when told the society had been linked to the JFK plot.

Asked why money from Gadhafi’s jihad fund would be transferred to his own bank account and then deposited into the charity’s bank account, Fadel told the Citizen that he handled the money personally because the deposits were in U.S. funds.

“The charity doesn’t have a U.S. bank account so the money came to me and I distributed the money as directed by the mother organization in Libya,” Fadel said.

Fadel said he will not appeal the government’s March 26 ruling to revoke the registration of his charity, saying it’s too much of a “hassle.”