Wednesday, May 27, 2009 By JASON TRAHAN / Order Dallas Stickersjtrahan@dallasnews.com U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis on Wednesday morning handed down sentences that will likely mean two founders of the Holy Land Foundation will spend the rest of their lives…
U.S. INDICTS ISLAMIC CHARITY ON TERROR CHARGES / CNN
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 WASHINGTON (CNN) — A major Islamic charity and seven of its key officials have been indicted on charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism with millions of dollars, federal officials announced Tuesday. A federal grand jury in…
Writing to the HLF 5
Writing to the HLF 5 Send a letter to the Holy Land Five. You can find the most up to date location of where federal prisoners are from this bureau of prisons link. To locate and find inmates, and to write to them…
Witness makes a bizarre argument (Sept. 24, 2008)
All Muslims are terrorists—that’s what prosecutors and a witness insinuated Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 during the third day of the Holy Land Foundation retrial after the jury left for the day. It quickly became more apparent than ever before that…
Who is HLF? The Holy Land Five
The Holy Land Foundation was the largest Muslim charity in the United States. Founded in 1989 in Culver City, Calif. near Los Angeles and based in Richardson, Texas, the foundation provided relief to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and occupied…
Why This Case Affects You
As we’ve shown in our Counterpoints to the Case, the Holy Land Foundation is not being accused of providing funds to HAMAS, nor is HLF being accused of committing or supporting any acts of violence. So, what crime is the government charging HLF with?…
TWO DEFENSE WITNESSES TESTIFY (NOV. 3, 2008)
Jurors listened more intensely than ever before on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, as they got crash courses on Islam and the Palestinian culture. Second Defense Witness Dr. John Esposito, a prominent scholar on Islam and a professor at Georgetown University,…
BLOCKING FAITH, FREEZING CHARITY: CHILLING MUSLIM CHARITABLE GIVING IN THE “WAR ON TERRORISM FINANCING”
This report documents the effect of U.S. government actions on American Muslims’ exercise of their right to profess and practice their religion through charitable giving. The ACLU’s research shows that U.S. terrorism financing policies and practices are seriously undermining American…
Weak case seen in failed trial of charity
DALLAS — While the U.S. Justice Department ponders how it will retry its troubled terrorism finance case against a now- defunct Muslim charity, debris from the recent mistrial here shows signs of piling up at the White House doorstep. The…
U.S. PROSECUTION OF MUSLIM GROUP ENDS IN MISTRIAL
By LESLIE EATON, New York TimesOctober 23, 2007DALLAS — A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government’s flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of…