Anti-sharia experts framed Islamic charity as criminal material support for terror

Evidence

Gaffney: Well, material support for terror is a perennial problem in the form of the tithing known as Zakat, requires that — as one of the eight approved activities under Zakat is directly supportive of jihad. By some people’s count, there are three others that can be used. For example, to support the families of terrorists or jihadists, suicide bombers, that is a permitted activity. That does fall afoul of our laws against material support for terror and has been so demonstrated in the Holy Land Foundation trial. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 408

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ch47’s anti-sharia model bills and ch61’s general theme of Muslims being prosecuted for ordinary religious practice - and to the Holy Land Foundation trial as a real-world precedent for the reader’s broader argument. — connects to: Anti-sharia testimony framed lawful Muslim practice as a seditious, lawless threat; Anti-terror material support laws criminalize religious charity and political solidarity; Charity aid to needy Palestinians was prosecuted as material support for terrorism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 579 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Charity aid to needy Palestinians was prosecuted as material support for terrorism #exemplifies (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 579
• Anti-terror material support laws criminalize religious charity and political solidarity #expands (0.85)
• Opponents framed Muslim proponents of sharia as terrorists through guilt by distant association. #expands (0.85) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 387
• Anti-war activism was prosecuted as material support for terrorism #exemplifies (0.80)