Islamic Association of Palestine
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Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) was a religious based organization that purported to write articles of a factual nature on issues that "Zionist controlled" westernized media failed to report. It called itself "a not-for-profit, public-awareness, educational, political, social, and civic, national grassroots organization dedicated to advancing a just, comprehensive, and eternal solution to the cause of Palestine and suffrages of the Palestinians." For a time it also used the name American Muslim Society.
Founders include:
- Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, funder and 1989 member of IAP Board of Directors, Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- Sami Al-Arian, supporter of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
It published a magazine, Tareeq Filistine (Road to Palestine), and newspapers Al-Zaytuna and Muslim World Monitor.
It had been accused of issuing anti-Semitic propaganda and having links to terrorists by the ADL.
The U.S. government considers the IAP a front for Hamas in the United States.
In December, 2004, a federal judge in the U.S. city of Chicago ruled that the IAP (along with the Holy Land Foundation) was liable for a $156 million dollar lawsuit for aiding and abetting the terror group Hamas in the death of a 17-year-old American citizen. Though IAP has already had its assets frozen by the U.S. executive branch of the government, this represents the first time a U.S. court officially linked IAP to Hamas.
The organization was the parent organization of Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.
[edit] External links
- iap.org was the IAP domain name until after February 2005.
- Testimony of Steven Emerson Before the United States Senate Committee of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs "Money Laundering and Terror Financing Issues in the Middle East." July 13, 2005
- Site Institute - See also Site institute
- "Jury awards $156M to family of teen in slain in West Bank"
- "Death of a Terror Lobby" by Joe Kaufman, Front Page Magazine, February 3, 2006.
