Islamic organizations don't dispute documents that link them to Muslim Brotherhood
The North American Islamic Trust and the Islamic Society of North America are trying to get their names remove as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial. In court papers yesterday their lawyers did not dispute the documents that tied them to Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood but claim because they are dated so it shouldn't be used against them.
The dates of the documents are really irrelevant here because one major document outlines a plan by the Muslim Brotherhood's American group to overthrow our country with decades of work carried out by these organizations:
"Assuming the authenticity of the documents' dates, the most recent documents to mention either ISNA or NAIT are dated 1991," an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing the two groups, Hina Shamsi, wrote in a brief filed in federal court in Dallas yesterday. "Almost all of the numerous exhibits that purport to show financial transactions and that contain any mention of ISNA or NAIT are dated 1988 and 1989 …almost a decade before the majority of the overt acts the government alleged in support of its conspiracy charges." The filing also notes that the American government did not designate Hamas as a terrorist group until 1995.
Last May, prosecutors pursuing a terrorism-support case against the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation and five of its officers filed court documents listing more than 100 groups and individuals as unindicted co-conspirators. NAIT and ISNA were included as groups that are part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is closely related to Hamas.
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