05 June 2014

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - a charity for would be martyrs?

Not that I know anything about Quakers or Quakers' ways of charity, but this looks extremely curious:

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) is a Quaker grant making trust founded in 1904 by Joseph Rowntree, which claims to support “people who address the root causes of conflict and injustice.”  Despite these high-minded aspirations, however, the JRCT funds a number of extremist organisations:


CagePrisoners (£135,000)
CAGE (formerly CagePrisoners) is a terrorist support group run by confessed terrorist Moazzam Begg, “Britain’s most famous supporter of the Taliban,” who once admitted to visiting terrorist training camps on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he was responsible for “small arms and mountain tactics” training. Begg has recently been charged with terrorism offences following his return from a visit to Syria.
CAGE has promoted the conspiracy theory that “9/11 could be insurance fraud” planned by “Zionist billionaires.”
And more on that exciting list of very suspicious outfits benefiting from the largess of Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

How about IRS getting on that case, instead of harassing some less annoying groups?

Update: The trust in question is a UK affair, so it is up to the British version of IRS. Thanks to Brian Goldfarb for clarification.

9 comments:

Dick Stanley said...

Fat chance. Lefty trusts are sacrosanct to the American Gestapo known as the IRS.

Dick Stanley said...

Heh. Certainly cheaper than hiring a detective. The electronic age bites back.

Lynne T said...

Are you sure that the Rowntree Trust isn't a British foundation, subject to the notoriously toothless Charities Commission inspection along with Cage Prisoners or are both of these "bodies" incorp'd in the US as well?

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Oh... my fault then, I assumed, wrongly as it appears, that it is a US one.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Thanks for clarification, Brian.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yep, true, but apparently this post points to a wrong IRS...

SnoopyTheGoon said...

And no mistake.

Lynne T said...

But the American Quakers are now similarly sympathetic to jihad / violent "resistance" as long as the folks on the receiving end can be painted as "colonizers" or tools of western imperialism.

British Quakers were big in the chocolate industry, including the Fry's and Cadburys. All relied on slaves to work the plantations.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Thanks for the info, Lynne. As I mentioned, Quakers are so far out of my brief... or is it my briefcase?