Humanitarian Exchange (Number 38, June 2007) In the public mind, Islamic charity organisations have become little more than funding fronts for terrorism and jihad. Yet, despite allegations in television programmes, books and investigative reports in the UK, very little evidence has actually been forthcoming linking agencies or their staff with terrorist activity. Since 1998, the British government’s Charity Commission has conducted only 20 inquiries into suspected links with terrorism, ten of which have been dropped. One has led to the closure of a Tamil organisation linked to the LTTE in Sri Lanka. At the same time, the 1,000-plus Islamic charities and trusts in the UK have been exposed to extraordinary levels of scrutiny under anti-terror legislatio

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Mohammed Kroessin (2007), ‘Islamic charities and the ‘War on Terror’: dispelling the myths’ in Humanitarian Exchange, (Number 38, June 2007) [Online] Available: http://www.odihpn.org/humanitarian-exchange-magazine/issue-38/islamic-charities-and-the-war-on-terror-dispelling-the-myths