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Today, former US Congressman (GOP, MI) Marc Deli Siljander was indicted for his role in laundering at least $130,000 to al-Qaeda. For his work as a lobbyist for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), Siljander is said to have received $50,000. Instead of using its donations from USAID for development in Africa, IARA paid Silijander $50,000 and sent the rest of the money to an al-Qaeda contact in Pakistan.
In class today, we talked about the means whereby terrorists carry out their operations; one of those means was fundraising. It’s truly scary and appalling to find out that a US congressman was involved in such activities. I can’t help but point out a parallel between this occurrence and what Moroni wrote in Ether 8:23-25:
“Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.
Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.
For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries…”
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