Alleged illegal Palestinian contributions to Obama campaign and resignation of Obama’s Muslim Outreach Director
Posted by: Random-American in Crime, Islam, PoliticsWhere’s the mainstream media on this? Nowhere, imagine that. They’re too enamored with the Obamessiah to raise questions about any of this.
From Breitbart:
Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are listed in government election filings as having donated $29,521.54 to Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign, according to WorldNetDaily’s Jerusalem bureau chief, Aaron Klein.
The donations would violate election laws, including prohibitions on receiving donations from foreigners and guidelines against accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single election, Bob Biersack, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission, said in response to a query.
The contributions also raise numerous questions about the Obama campaign’s lax online donation form, which apparently allows for the possibility of foreign contributions.
Last week, the Atlas Shrugs blog outlined a series of donations in 2007 made to Obama’s campaign from two individuals, Monir Edwan and Hosam Edwan. In an online form on Obama’s campaign site, the Edwans listed their street as “Tal Esaltan,” which they wrote was located in “Rafah, GA.”
Rafah is not a city in Georgia. The Atlas blog immediately raised concerns that the money may have been donated from the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
A WND investigation tracked down the Edwans, who are brothers living in the Tal Esaltan neighborhood of Rafah, a large refugee camp in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Speaking to WND, the two brothers praised Obama and admitted giving the money online to his campaign. They said they are not U.S. citizens or green card holders but are citizens of “Palestine.”
One brother reportedly donated $24,000 and the other donated $5000. Not only is it illegal for being over the $2300 limit for individuals, but they’re also not American citizens. (hat tip: Boortz)
And this is on the heels of the sudden resignation of Mazen Asbahi, Obama’s “Muslim Outreach Director” after questions about ties to a radical Imam and the Muslim Brotherhood. (hat tip: MM)
Hmmm.
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