WHO's FUNDING ILLINOIS SENATE CANDIDATE ALEXI GIANNOULIAS?

Alexi Giannoulias

This was brought to our attention by DOUBLETAPPER (professional soldier, IDF, and friend):

Obama's buddy Illinois Senate candidate 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:

Mohammed Sahloul

Mohammed Sahloul 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 the mosque’s imam, Sheik Jamal Said, 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.”

Source: Carl in Jerusalem

I personally believe that we must not exclude the Muslims, that we must reach out to them, that we must strive to recruit the good Muslims in our struggle against the evil forces of Islamic Fundamentalism. I still say this, but this does not mean that I am a blind idealist; we are seeing more and more where the Muslims are using their mosques as political headquarters to disseminate propaganda sympathetic to terrorist causes, and their charities as funding instruments to finance terrorist organizations.

$1000 may not seem like a significant amount; a quick Internet search reveals that in 2008 Sahloul personally donated more than $10,000 to various political candidates. Those of you who vote in Illinois, please keep this in mind when you go to the polls this November; Alexi Giannoulias shakes hands with the financiers of terrorism.