Tech-savvy pensioners lead surge in online charity donations, research claims

Tech-savvy pensioners lead surge in online charity donations, research claims | ITProPortal.com: "JustGiving pointed out that the surge in online religious donations was likely to have been boosted partly by Zakat, the Islamic practice that stipulates ongoing donations to charity."

Global e-mail scams

Arab News, Global e-mail scams target the kindhearted, 16 Aug 2010: "One of the latest scams involves people impersonating employees of charitable foundations throughout the world, seeking help for Muslims and orphans following devastating disasters that recently hit Pakistan and China."

Dubai charity websites

Ibarhim Haj Hamad, khaleejtimes.com, Charities on Internet Are Illegal, Say Authorities, 18 Sep 2009 "Even as organising charity proliferates on the internet during the holy month of Ramadan, charity department officials say the modern-day technique is illegal.

"Only 13 charity organisations that fall under the Islamic Affairs and Charity Activities Department are authorised to receive donations within Dubai. Among them are the Red Crescent, Al Shifa Charity Est, the Dubai Charity Association, said Ali Al Mansoori, Director of the Charity Activities Department."

Swat

Muslim Hands International, Exodus of historic proportions: Muslim Hands launches £500,000 appeal for Swat crisis "Muslim Hands (MH) has responded to this emerging crisis by providing food, safe drinking water, medical field clinics and temporary schools for the 50,000 displaced persons in three of the major camps in Swabi and Mardan, 100 km north of Islamabad. MH began food aid programmes in April, for 1050 needy families in Kunji Camp, Dir."

Details: Muslim Hands [other charities are also involved]

Also see Declan Walsh, Guardian, Caught in the crossfire – the Swat valley's fleeing families, 14 May 09

Holy Land Foundation

AP, Holy Land retrial ends in sweeping guilty verdicts, 25 Nov 08 "After 15 years and two trials, the government has finally brought down the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, once the largest Muslim charity in the U.S."

Also see dallasnews.com, Holy Land investigation dates back to 1993, 24 Nov 08

Muslim Observer/New America Media, Pres. Bush Must Apologize to Holy Land Foundation, 7 Nov 07 "The United States, in essence, has just lost its largest and most expensive case against an organization accused of financing terrorism. The mistrial does not prohibit the U.S. government from retrying the Holy Land Foundation. What is apparent, however, is that the HLF had long been under U.S. government scrutiny, years before Pres. Bush announced the organization's shutdown only a few months after Sept. 11, 2001. The recent verdict received relatively muted media coverage."