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==Funding==
 
==Funding==
Max Blumenthal has charged that 'the AIC is funded largely by a pool of right-wing donors responsible for bankrolling key players in America’s Islamophobia industry'.<ref>Max Blumenthal, [http://electronicintifada.net/content/weddadys-free-arabs-american-islamic-congress-and-pro-israel-funders-who-helped-them-rise Weddady’s Free Arabs, American Islamic Congress and the pro-Israel funders who helped them rise], ''Electronic Intifada'', 7 May 2013.</ref>
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Writer Max Blumenthal has charged that 'the AIC is funded largely by a pool of right-wing donors responsible for bankrolling key players in America’s Islamophobia industry'.<ref>Max Blumenthal, [http://electronicintifada.net/content/weddadys-free-arabs-american-islamic-congress-and-pro-israel-funders-who-helped-them-rise Weddady’s Free Arabs, American Islamic Congress and the pro-Israel funders who helped them rise], ''Electronic Intifada'', 7 May 2013.</ref>
  
 
Conservative donors such as the [[Klarman Family Foundation]] and the [[Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation‎‎]] are significant funders, the latter donating USD $325,000 <ref> Center for American Progress’s 2011 report Fear Inc </ref>  to the AIC between 2005 and 2011.  
 
Conservative donors such as the [[Klarman Family Foundation]] and the [[Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation‎‎]] are significant funders, the latter donating USD $325,000 <ref> Center for American Progress’s 2011 report Fear Inc </ref>  to the AIC between 2005 and 2011.  

Revision as of 01:19, 17 March 2017

American Islamic Congress logo, circa 2015 Credit: American Islamic Congress

The American Islamic Congress (AIC) describes itself as a ' nonprofit, non-religious, civil society development organization serving Muslims and Non-Muslims by promoting civil and human rights through advocacy, engagement and education.'[1]

Funding

Writer Max Blumenthal has charged that 'the AIC is funded largely by a pool of right-wing donors responsible for bankrolling key players in America’s Islamophobia industry'.[2]

Conservative donors such as the Klarman Family Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation‎‎ are significant funders, the latter donating USD $325,000 [3] to the AIC between 2005 and 2011.

The Klarman Family Foundation has funded American Islamic and Palestinian organisations, with the aim, Max Blumenthal argues, of driving "a wedge through mainstream Muslim-American organising".[4]

AIC has refused to engage with mainstream Muslim civil rights groups and forbade 'members of its student arm, Project Nur, from discussing Palestine-related issues on campus'.


Key grants

Grants received by the American Islamic Congress in $ USD [5]
Organisation 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total 2009-2015
Klarman Family Foundation - 50,000- 50,000- 40,000 40,000 - - 180,000
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation‎‎ - 40,000 35,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 20,000 170,000
TOT

Notes

  1. AIC’s Mission and Principles, American Islamic Congress, accessed 2 April 2014.
  2. Max Blumenthal, Weddady’s Free Arabs, American Islamic Congress and the pro-Israel funders who helped them rise, Electronic Intifada, 7 May 2013.
  3. Center for American Progress’s 2011 report Fear Inc
  4. Max Blumenthal, "American Task Force on Palestine finds funding from anti-Palestinian billionaire and a repressive monarchy," Mondoweiss, 27 Nov 2013
  5. Data compiled from yearly 990 forms