Shuttered Islamic charities funded orphan relief, clinics, and refugee camps

Evidence

Two other Islamic charities shut down were Benevolence International and the Global Relief Fund. Both charities received millions of dollars from American Muslims donating their religiously mandated annual charitable donations, known as zakat. The funds supported Muslim children orphaned by the Serbian and Croatian Christians’ massacre of Bosnians, medical clinics in Palestine, and refugee camps in Muslim-majority Kosovo. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 912

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces zakat, the religiously mandated charitable donation, as a term central to how Muslim charity works.