DALLAS - A group claiming to be the largest U.S. Muslim charity says the millions of dollars it raised was legitimate aid to orphans and others in need in Muslim countries. Prosecutors accuse the group of exploiting "good hearts to secretly fund violence and murder."

They cite new regulations governing charities, banks, informal systems such as hawala and other possible channels for funding attacks and extremist groups.

WASHINGTON - Charities with Saudi Arabian government links may have diverted funds to al-Qaeda, which staged the September 11 attacks on the United States, a national commission probing the strikes said Thursday.

I receive hundreds of e-mails every day, and many contain interesting stories. One that caught my eye last week announced that CAIR would train employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at a "Sensitivity and Diversity Workshop."

New York, Leaders of the Muslim community in the United States have reportedly approached Washington with a proposal that will see them augmenting donations to Islamic institutions...

Two months after U.S. Marines pulled out, residents of Fallujah feel safe again, sleeping on their roofs to escape the heat without fear of the once-constant nighttime gunbattles, and traveling the streets without worrying they could be stopped or detained.

The killing by an Islamist group in early May of Nick Berg, an American civilian working in Iraq, was so barbarous that it put the heat even on those American Islamists. In response, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations launched a petition called “Not in the Name of Islam,” by which it hoped to “disassociate the faith of Islam from the violent acts of a few Muslims.”

Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm has decided all registered foundations, and possibly all associations, will be compelled to disclose their annual accounts as part of the battle to cut funding for terrorism flowing through the Netherlands.

"Hijacking planes, terrorizing innocent people and shedding blood, constitute a form of injustice that cannot be tolerated by Islam, which views them as gross crimes and sinful acts. …

WASHINGTON: The West needs to understand that the anonymity of the donor is integral to the concept of charity in Islam, a meeting held here this week was told.

As chairman and chief executive officer of Minneapolis-based Caribou Coffee, Michael Coles is tackling a difficult challenge - trying to defeat a persistent 2-year-old Internet rumor that the chain of coffee shops is linked to Islamic terrorists.

A Muslim charity has terminated an agreement with a UK cola company because of “misleading” marketing.

The West needs to understand that the anonymity of the donor is integral to the concept of charity in Islam, a meeting held here this week was told.

US federal agents raided an Islamic institute in Northern Virginia on Thursday, July 1, with no reasons cited, a move seen by an American Muslim civil rights group as a "new fishing expedition".

In failing to ban ritual slaughter, ministers aren't respecting Jewish and Muslim wishes, but comforting the reactionaries in their communities.

Federal prosecutors in Miami are weighing whether to indict Jose Padilla - dubbed the dirty bomb suspect - for allegedly providing financial aid to a terrorist group run by an Egyptian convicted of plotting to blow up New York City landmarks, two law enforcement sources said Tuesday.

More than $12 million went from a foundation connected to a Georgia poultry plant to a secret bank account held by a top financial supporter of Osama bin Laden...

Muslim families in New York City face unique problems in addition to those driving up homelessness citywide and beyond.

Our charities, we cannot contribute to [them]. We never know which charities on the list are considered to be supporting terrorism.

In these times of sealed warrants and accusations of unfair targeting of Arabs and Muslims by law enforcement, it certainly helps to know your rights. Do you have to talk to CSIS or the RCMP if they show up at your door? What do you do if airport security pulls you aside?

Al-Qaida has siphoned millions of dollars from Islamic charities that help poor Muslims in Africa and Asia, and U.S. and Saudi government efforts to cut the flow have largely failed...

Jewish groups and terrorism analysts want to know if a pledge by Saudi Arabia to cut funding for terrorist groups includes those that target Israel.

Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation and Al-Waqf Al-Islami Foundation will certainly be dissolved and its folded into the National Commission for Charitable Work Abroad ...

The Saudi government, facing its most significant crisis yet in the surge of al-Qaida terrorism against foreigners and its own subjects, is taking serious and unprecedented steps to confront this threat to its own existence. But as a new report by the Council on Foreign Relations shows...

Last week the Saudi Arabian government reversed years of policy when it promised to swiftly dissolve the operations of Al Haramain, a charity with close ties to the Saudi government the US alleges is one of the "principal" backers of Al Qaeda.

Al-Qaida has siphoned millions of dollars from Islamic charities that help poor Muslims in Africa and Asia, and U.S. and Saudi government efforts to cut the flow have largely failed, western diplomats and former charity workers say.

As a columnist for FrontPage Magazine who gravitates toward controversial subjects, I get my share of responses, sometimes from unexpected quarters. In April of 2003, I received an e-mail from someone calling himself “Ismail Royer.” At the time, I didn’t realize the importance of this correspondence: I had just been contacted by a terrorist.

Saudi Arabia cited charity front groups in five nations for bankrolling terrorists and created a foundation for all future charitable giving, which is required of all Muslims.

Al-Qaida has siphoned millions of dollars from Islamic charities that help poor Muslims in Africa and Asia, and U.S. and Saudi government efforts to cut the flow have largely failed, Western diplomats and former charity workers say.

(Washington, DC) The Friends of Charity Association (FOCA) (http://www.foca.net), composed of leading Islamic charities committed to dialogue with the US government, opinion leaders and the media...