Your tax dollars at work. This Joel Mowbray Washington Times article was sent to me by a regular Marathon Pundit reader.
Millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid have been given in the past several years to two Palestinian universities -- one of them controlled by Hamas -- that have participated in the advocacy, support or glorification of terrorism.
The funding -- principally in scholarships to individual students -- is being eyed by several members of Congress and their aides, who say it may violate U.S. law.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided more than $140,000 in assistance to the Hamas-controlled Islamic University in Gaza -- including scholarships to 49 of its students -- since Congress changed the law in 2004 to restrict aid to entities or individuals "involved in or advocating terrorist activity."
No U.S. assistance was directed to Islamic University last year, but USAID continues to fund multimillion-dollar programs through American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), which is building a high-tech facility for the school. U.S. law requires that any recipient of U.S. aid have no association with terrorists.
Despite the beliefs of some denizens of the political left, as well as similar sentiments from Muslim apologists for Islamic terror, Hamas, like Hezbollah, is a terrorist organization.
Mowbray also reports that the same agency gave $2.3 million to Al-Quds University. This alleged institution of higher education recently celebrated an undoubtedly jam-packed week of fun--was it Homecoming Week?--to honor the achievement of the barbarian who invented the first suicide belt.
Perhaps an Al-Quds student can dress up like this guy and become the school's mascot. He can dance, and at the end of his performance he can, well you know.....
Thanks for the link: Freedom Folks
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