The Moneyman Behind The Ground Zero Mega-Mosque's Developer Is A Financial Supporter Of Terrorist Organizations

From Bare Naked Islam:

The REAL moneyman behind Ground Zero Victory Mosque was a contributor to a terrorist organization


One of the financial backers of developer Sharif El-Gamal’s Ground Zero Islamic mosque and cultural center project is Egyptian born businessman, Hisham Elzanaty, who once contributed to a terror group.

Fox 5 has also uncovered Elzanaty has teamed up with El-Gamal on at least two real estate deals: the controversial mosque site and another deal involving a commercial property in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. In the Chelsea deal, mortgage documents show Elzanaty played a major role signing off as the guarantor on El-Gamal’s $39 million mortgage.



When Fox 5 News reporter Charles Leaf tracked down Elzanaty outside his Long Island home in Roslyn Heights last week Elzanaty avoided the camera and did not answer a single question about his business dealings with El-Gamal.



Fox 5 News has also learned that in 1999 Hisham Elzanaty sent money to an organization that would later be deemed by the U.S. government to be a terrorist group. The organization was the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, also known as HLF. The now defunct group’s 1999 tax records show Elzanaty contributed more than $6,000 to HLF.



Two years later, in 2001, HLF was shut down by the federal government and designated as a global terrorist. In 2008 five HLF leaders were convicted of providing material support to Hamas.



The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a non-profit research group that focuses on radical Islamic terrorist groups. The research group shared its information on HLF with Fox 5 News and IPT’s Managing Director, Ray Locker tells us HLF, “masked what their true purpose was, they funneled money to Hamas which used that money to conduct terrorist operations. In many cases they gave that money to the widows and children of so-called martyrs. ”



Federal investigators say HLF was set up as the largest Muslim charity in the United States based in Richardson, Texas, but from its inception the group existed to support Hamas.