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Who is funding Alexi Giannoulias?

Obama buddy Alexi Giannoulias is locked in a tight Senate race with strongly pro-Israel Republican Marc Kirk. Here's some interesting data on who is financing Giannoulias' campaign.

Take Mohammed Sahloul for example, who contributed $1,000 to the Giannoulias campaign on June 22.

Sahloul is the former president of the Mosque Foundation, a Bridgeview mosque that has numerous links to terrorist organizations. The Mosque Foundation contributed roughly $400,000 to four Islamic charities that were later shut down by the federal government for links to terrorism. According to the Chicago Tribune, the organizations receiving funds were: the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Benevolence International Foundation, the Islamic American Relief Agency, and Global Relief Foundation.

In 2004, the Chicago Tribune wrote of one instance where Sheik Jamal Said, the mosque’s imam, raised $50,000 from his congregants for the legal defense of Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor who pled guilty in 2006 to raising money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. While soliciting the contributions, Said reportedly called Israel “a foreign, malignant and strange element on the blessed land.”

I hope those of you who vote in Illinois will keep this in mind when you go to the polls and vote for Marc Kirk.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:23 AM