Virtually on the heels of my July NER article, “Zakat and Terrorism,” came this confirmation in a  front page article in today’s  New York Times (NYT), “In Refugee Aid, Pakistan’s War has a New Front: Islamic Radicals Vying With U.S. on Relief. ”   The  NYT article notes that Islamist charities have competed successfully against US Aid, as the latter is funneled via the Pakistani government to the two million internal displaced refugees from Taliban-controlled in the Swat Valley. The Pakistani government will not permit direct shipment of US aid to these refugee centers.  One Pakistani American businessman, Mahboob Mahmood, who was interviewed for this NYT article remarked with regard to US assistance, “They have been almost completely neutered.” Obama Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke has been  appearing  at  these  refugee camps saying that US aid is coming. But how are the refugees to know.

Instead radical Islamist charities are delivering refugees aid along with the message of Jihad against America and the West. 

Witness this from the NYT report:

Last week, a crowd of men, the heads of households uprooted from Swat, gathered in this village in northwestern Pakistan for handouts for their desperate families. But before they could even get a can of cooking oil, the aid director for a staunchly anti-Western Islamic charity took full advantage of having a captive audience, exhorting the men to jihad.

“The Western organizations have spent millions and billions on family planning to destroy the Muslim family system,” said the aid director, Mehmood ul-Hassan, who represented Al Khidmat, a powerful charity of the strongly anti-American political party Jamaat-e-Islami.

The Western effort had failed, he said, but Pakistanis should show their strength by joining the fight against the infidels.

Witness these comments from US refugee advocates and Pakistani local officials:

Yet Islamist and jihadist groups openly work the camps.

“Because of the lack of international agencies, there is a vacuum filled by actors that are Islamist and more than that, jihadist,” said Kristele Younes, a senior advocate with Refugees International, a Washington group established in 1979.

One of the most prominent jihadist charity groups, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, had been barred from the camps, according to Lt. Gen. Nadeem Ahmad, the head of the Pakistani Army’s disaster management group. The group was designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations Security Council in December.

Nonetheless, it set up operations in Mardan under a new name, Falah-e-Insaniyat, according to Himayatullah Mayar, the mayor of Mardan. After the order to leave the area, Falah-e-Insaniyat went underground but still appeared to be operating to some extent, Mr. Mayar said.

In our NER article on “Zakat and Terrorism,” we noted that among the express purposes of Zakat  or Muslim charity was support for the ‘way of Allah” or Jihad.  Thus, it would appear that the Obama Administration outreach to the Muslim ummah, especially in Taliban-racked Pakistan has failed.  We  have been shut out from any Pakistani  delivery of American humanitarian aid that will cost US taxpayers $110 million.  It’s all because Jihad rules.