Are Twitter and Facebook Facilitating Terrorist Fundraising?

Shariah Finance Watch ^ | 28 July 2012 | Unattributed

[LSUfan]

A report in Pakistani media indicates that one of the Islamic world’s most notorious charities has been making appeals for zakat funds using Twitter.

Jamaatud Dawa is considered the political arm of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Jihadist terrorist organization that carried out the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. In fact, in 2008, after the Mumbai attack, the United Nations declared Jamaatud Dawa a terrorist entity.

The message on Twitter, which was also posted on its Facebook page, appealed for Zakat in any form.

[Jyotishi]

Social media are the Muslim terrorist’s ally.

[InMemoriam]

I’ve heard that they use telephones and the postal service, too. UPS...FedEx...the airlines...some of the rascals even drive cars!