World Assembly of Muslim Youth

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The World Assembly of Muslim Youth is an Islamic organization whose stated purpose is to establish a platform where Muslim youth can get together in an Islamic environment. In addition to Football Tournaments WAMY organizes European Muslim Scouts camps for Muslim youth in Europe. It receives its major funding and ideological cues that comes from Saudi Arabia.

"We need thousands of these organizations all over the world. According to the Americans themselves, there are more than 1.5 million organizations in the US. When you look at the Muslim world, there are no more than 50,000. It is not fair that the West has so many organizations, while we are denied even the existence of a few organizations like WAMY, the Muslim World League, Al-Haramain Charitable Organization and others."--Dr. Al-Wohaibi^[1]

[edit] American counter-terrorist analysts allege ties to al-Qaeda

The factors favoring the continued detention of Guantanamo detainee Mammar Ameur presented to his Administrative Review Board hearing included:^[2]

"The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) is an NGO operating in Afghanistan and may be associated with Usama bin Laden and/or al-Qaida."

Main article: Charities accused of ties to terrorism

The connections are, according to the official court record, the terrrorists that plotted the 1993 WTC bombing kept literature handed out by WAMY. Here are some samples: "The Jews are enemies of the faithful, God and the angels. Teach our children to love taking revenge on the Jews and the oppressors." Here are some examples of what specifically to teach the children: "In 1989 Abdul-Hadi Nemin carried-out his own heroic operation while on bus # 405 of Tel Aviv-Jerusalem line; he charged at the bus driver, chanting "Allah Akbar," twirled the steering wheel toward the cliff and caused the bus to take a big fall. As a result of his courageous act, 14 Israelis were killed and 27 were injured." It was previously run by the cousin (Omar bin Laden) and nephew (Abdullah bin Laden) of Osama bin Laden. (Greg Palast Armed Madhouse p.23-25)