Indiana University philanthropy group allegedly led fundraising training with Hamas-linked 'sham charity'

A Muslim philanthropy radical astatine Indiana University reportedly organized fundraising grooming programs with a Turkish nonprofit that the U.S. authorities precocious sanctioned arsenic a "sham charity" accused of secretly backing Hamas arsenic good arsenic Islamic revivalist Muslim Brotherhood.

The Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, portion of the School of Philanthropy, allegedly co-organized grooming programs alongside Hayat Yolu, according to a LinkedIn station and a section outlet study dating backmost arsenic acold arsenic 7 months ago. 

The Department of the Treasury past Thursday designated Hayat Yolu arsenic a cardinal subordinate successful a covert planetary web that uses the guise of humanitarian assistance to rise wealth overseas. Officials accidental the radical funnels funds to Gaza that straight enactment Hamas and its subject wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and serves arsenic a fiscal hub and office for the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Hamas continues to concern its subject helping by exploiting sham charities to enactment violent operations," Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said successful a connection connected March 12. "The Treasury Department volition not let Hamas to misuse the charitable assemblage for its convulsive aims, and we volition proceed to people these networks wherever they operate."

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Indiana University's Muslim Philanthropy Initiative allegedly organized fundraising grooming events alongside Hayat Yolu, which national officials precocious sanctioned arsenic a Hamas-linked group.  (Getty)

The events, which focused connected fundraising strategies, were chiefly led and presented by Indiana University Assistant Professor Dr. Shariq A. Siddiqui, who said the semipermanent nonsubjective of the acquisition was to make a "domino effect," according to media outlet RRI.

The extremity was to bid attendees with "scientific knowledge" truthful they could instrumentality to their location countries and walk on the precocious fundraising and absorption techniques to others, the outlet added.

The organizations appeared to summation traction implicit the months aft hosting astatine slightest 2 multi-day grooming events successful Istanbul, Turkey, successful July 2025 and successful Jakarta, Indonesia, past January.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced past week that Hamas exploits the charitable assemblage to rise funding.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Their three-day Southeast Asia lawsuit notably drew 86 participants from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and Singapore, RRI reported. The archetypal 2 days were reportedly devoted wholly to fundraising, focusing connected however to rise wealth "systematically, professionally and scientifically."

"The archetypal 2 days ore connected fundraising, peculiarly connected however to rise wealth systematically, professionally, and scientifically," Siddiqui said. "On the 3rd day, we displacement to leadership, task management, and unpaid management."

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The Department of the Treasury's seal extracurricular the Treasury Department gathering successful Washington connected May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Separately, the Istanbul lawsuit past summertime brought unneurotic planetary nonprofit leaders to absorption connected scaling interaction and sustainability, according to a LinkedIn station from an attendee. The training, allegedly led by Siddiqui and Cambridge lecturer Dr. Abed Ayoub, reportedly attracted salient planetary philanthropic figures.

Participants said the university’s grooming helped them amended recognize however to signifier their fundraising efforts and grow their operational networks connected a planetary scale.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Indiana University for much information.