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Volunteer Police Chaplain Fired Over Ties To Holy Land Foundation Case

By Howard M. Friedman

Last December, the Illinois State Police appointed seven clergy to be volunteer police chaplains. However, according to today's Chicago Tribune, detailed background checks were not carried out at the time. Now one of those appointed as a Muslim chaplain, Sheikh Kifah Mustapha, associate director of the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, has had his appointment revoked. It turns out he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Muslim charity whose founders were convicted of sending funds to Hamas. (See prior posting.) Mustapha helped raise funds in Chicago for the Holy Land Foundation. Today the Council on American Islamic Relations will hold a press conference to object to the State Police action against Mustapha.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).