National Prayer Breakfast Organizer Accepted Money from Terrorist Finance Group

[The Straight Story]

National Prayer Breakfast Organizer Accepted Money from Terrorist Finance Group

Fellowship Foundation, sponsor of the National Prayer Breakfast, should be investigated by the IRS, argues a group of Ohio ministers calling themselves the Clergy VOICE.

The activist group wrote to the IRS commissioner claiming the Fellowship Foundation violated its tax-exempt status by accepting money in 2004 from the Missouri-based Islamic American Relief Agency. The Islamic organization was accused of supporting terrorists, raided by federal agents and eventually shut down.

Richard Carver, president of the Fellowship Foundation, said his group did receive two $25,000 checks and confirmed that the money was sent to former Rep. Mark D. Siljander (R-Michigan) to lobby the Senate to try to remove the Islamic American Relief Agency from the terrorist list.

The Foundation, which has an annual budget of $16 million, first staged the National Prayer Breakfast in 1953. Every president since then as attended the Breakfast at least once during his term of office.

Since 2004, the Foundation has sponsored trips abroad for seven members of Congress: Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama); Rep. Mike Doyle, (D.-Pennsylvania); Joe Pitts, (R-Pennsylvania); John Carter, (R.-Texas), former Rep. Frank Wolf, (R.-Virginia); Sen. Tom Coburn, (R.-Oklahoma), and Sen. John Ensign, (R.-Nevada).

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/National_Prayer_Breakfast_Organizer_Accepted_Money_from_Terrorist_Finance_Group_101020

[Bitwit1234]

1. The IRS has too many Bush appointed scabs

still working there, they won't do a thing. And Holder is so mealy mouthed he is afraid he might offend somebody. The won't do anything to any of the violations filed against any of these religious organizations or preachers.

[valerief]

2. You mean they're not one and the same? nt