2026年5月6日 美国东部时间6:00 / 福克斯新闻网
美国国务院2021年因包括称赞恐怖分子在内的担忧与全球伊斯兰救济组织断绝关系
作者：罗伯特·施马德
得克萨斯州联邦参议员约翰·康林多次称赞全球伊斯兰救济组织的美国分支机构——该慈善机构于2021年因包括称赞恐怖分子和反犹主义在内的担忧被美国国务院切断联系。
在美国国务院表达对全球伊斯兰救济组织的担忧后，康林对其美国分支给予了好评。福克斯新闻数字频道的审查发现了两段视频致辞和两封信件，康林在其中称赞了美国伊斯兰救济组织，或认可该组织的运作。
“感谢美国伊斯兰救济组织的朋友们所做的一切人道主义工作，”康林在2021年5月致该组织的视频致辞中说道。一年后，这位参议员写信给美国伊斯兰救济组织，“认可并感谢”该组织“在得克萨斯州和全美各地开展的人道主义工作”。在2023年的一封信中，康林再次将美国伊斯兰救济组织称为“朋友”，并称赞该团体“致力于服务我们最弱势的邻舍”。
康林正与得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿陷入激烈的参议院共和党初选 runoff 选举。帕克斯顿多次质疑康林的保守派资格，而康林则通过强调这位总检察长的腐败丑闻予以回应。两位候选人都将反对他们认为的激进伊斯兰教作为竞选的核心议题。
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2025年末，美国伊斯兰救济组织宣布与全球伊斯兰救济组织断绝关系，称其母公司的行为严重损害了美国伊斯兰救济组织的声誉。
根据中东论坛挖掘出的社交媒体帖子和照片，美国伊斯兰救济组织和全球伊斯兰救济组织的领导层历来与穆斯林兄弟会——一个跨国伊斯兰主义政治运动——保持联系，并表达了对犹太人的敌意。穆斯林兄弟会的一些分支已被美国列为外国恐怖组织。
“随着全球各地反犹主义抬头，所有有良知的人都必须坚定立场，对IRW最高层公然且令人发指的反犹主义和暴力美化行为零容忍，”美国国务院2020年12月在谈及IRW时写道。“我们鼓励所有目前正在审查IRW活动及其与IRW关系的政府机构采取行动。”
多个国家政府和银行机构因恐怖主义融资担忧已与IRW断绝关系。
根据中东论坛发现的一篇Facebook帖子，美国伊斯兰救济组织前主席哈立德·拉马达的税务文件显示，他直至2022年10月都在该组织董事会任职。他在2014年曾转发文本，称赞埃及“圣战者”通过“圣战”“让犹太人遭遇多次失败”。同年，他 reportedly 在社交媒体上转发信息，称赞哈马斯对“犹太复国主义实体”造成了“巨大失败”。
埃及媒体和乔治华盛顿大学极端主义项目已认定拉马达是穆斯林兄弟会的附属成员。
康林推动取消恐怖组织指定后，CAIR的免税地位成目标
在美国国务院谴责美国伊斯兰救济组织后，其他几位共和党议员也与该组织有过互动。
例如，参议员特德·克鲁兹和查克·格拉斯利在2022年向该组织发送了节日问候。据一篇社交媒体帖子显示，时任参议员马可·卢比奥和参议员里克·斯科特的工作人员在同年3月与该组织成员会面，讨论待审议的公共卫生立法。据《全国天主教记者报》报道，美国伊斯兰救济组织的代表甚至受邀参加了2025年与特朗普政府官员的会议，讨论外国援助的未来。
“四年多前，我们的医疗团队成员参加了一场Zoom会议，有选民表示他们对国内医疗政策有疑问，”斯科特的一位发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“这些工作人员和斯科特参议员都不知道IRUSA的代表会加入这次电话会议。参议员在打击反犹主义和伊斯兰主义对美国社会的威胁方面的记录不言自明。”
福克斯新闻数字频道周五联系了克鲁兹、格拉斯利和卢比奥的代表置评。
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全球伊斯兰救济组织一贯否认与恐怖组织有任何关联。
“全球伊斯兰救济组织的所有工作都遵循最高标准的治理、合规和监督，”该组织的一位发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“我们纯粹是一个人道主义组织，坚定反对一切形式的极端主义，包括反犹主义。我们的工作人员在世界上一些最危险的地方提供援助，我们的一些同事甚至在恐怖行为中丧生。我们是恐怖主义的受害者，而非支持者。与我们合作的主要金融机构要求我们的工作接受政府、机构和顶级会计师事务所的严格审计，所有这些机构都已确认我们的资金完全用于人道主义用途。”
全球伊斯兰救济组织在2017年的一份报告中称，在其各种法律纠纷中，“迄今为止没有确凿证据证实任何指控”。
汇丰银行2016年因恐怖主义融资担忧终止了与全球伊斯兰救济组织的关系。瑞士银行巨头瑞银早在四年前就已采取同样行动。以色列、阿联酋、荷兰和德国均因所谓与穆斯林兄弟会和哈马斯的关联，对全球伊斯兰救济组织采取了行动。
根据全球伊斯兰救济组织的财务披露文件，在拉马达担任领导期间，美国伊斯兰救济组织是全球伊斯兰救济组织最大的资金来源，在2021年和2022年每年向其母公司提供数千万美元的现金。
2020年8月，在《泰晤士报》报道其高级领导层存在广泛反犹主义后，全球伊斯兰救济组织的整个董事会辞职。例如，据报道，一名董事在社交媒体帖子中称犹太人为“猴子和猪的后代”，而其他人则对哈马斯和穆斯林兄弟会大加赞赏。
几个月前的2020年6月，康林拍摄了一段视频，祝美国伊斯兰救济组织开斋节快乐——开斋节是伊斯兰圣月，以斋戒和祈祷为标志。
资深共和党参议员称克罗克特的表态揭露了全国民主党有多“激进”
2025年10月，美国伊斯兰救济组织宣布与全球伊斯兰救济组织断绝关系，称关于IRW行为的“某些指控”将“对IRUSA应得的良好声誉产生负面影响”，根据3月提交的一份法律诉状。
“IRW不仅拒绝配合采取措施规避此类生存风险，反而进一步加大了对IRUSA的风险，这反过来又威胁到其向全球受益人提供救济的能力，”美国伊斯兰救济组织提交的诉状中写道。
税务记录显示，美国伊斯兰救济组织曾向得克萨斯州东普莱诺伊斯兰中心提供资金，该清真寺是EPIC城背后的机构，EPIC城是一个规划中的伊斯兰社区，已成为得克萨斯州政治的焦点。康林和帕克斯顿都采取行动阻挠该社区的建设。
福克斯新闻数字频道周五联系康尼的办公室和美国伊斯兰救济组织请求置评，但未收到回复。
GOP senator in brutal primary praised Islamic charity after feds cut terror-scrutinized parent, review finds
May 6, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
State Department cut ties with Islamic Relief Worldwide in 2021 amid concerns including praise of terrorists
By Robert Schmad
Texas Sen. John Cornyn has repeatedly praised the American arm of Islamic Relief Worldwide — a charity the State Department cut ties with in 2021 amid concerns including praise of terrorists and antisemitism.
After the State Department aired its concerns regarding Islamic Relief Worldwide, Cornyn had kind words for its American branch. A Fox News Digital review uncovered two video messages and two letters where Cornyn commended Islamic Relief USA or endorsed the organization’s operations.
“Thanks to my friends at Islamic Relief USA for all their humanitarian work,” Cornyn said in a May 2021 video address to the organization. A year later, the senator wrote a letter to Islamic Relief USA to “recognize and thank” the organization for its “humanitarian efforts across Texas and our nation.” In a 2023 letter, Cornyn again referred to IRUSA as “friends” and commended the group for its “dedication to serving our most vulnerable neighbors.”
Cornyn is locked in a heated Senate primary runoff election against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton has repeatedly questioned Cornyn’s conservative bona fides, while Cornyn has responded by highlighting the attorney general’s corruption scandals. Both candidates have made opposition to what they perceive as radical Islam focal points of their campaigns.
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Sen. John Cornyn speaks to the media in Austin on March 3, 2026.(Jack Myer/AP)
In late 2025, Islamic Relief USA moved to sever ties with Islamic Relief Worldwide, arguing that the conduct of its parent organization has significantly damaged Islamic Relief USA’s reputation.
Leaders at both Islamic Relief USA and Islamic Relief Worldwide historically have maintained ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a multinational Islamist political movement, and expressed hostility toward Jewish people, according to social media posts and photographs unearthed by the Middle East Forum.Some branches of the Muslim Brotherhood have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the United States.
“As we witness a rise in anti-Semitism in every corner of the globe, it is incumbent on all people of good conscience to stand strong and exhibit zero tolerance for the blatant and horrifying anti-Semitism and glorification of violence exhibited at the most senior levels of IRW,” the State Department wrote in December 2020 of IRW. “We encourage all government bodies currently examining IRW activities and their relationship with IRW.”
Multiple governments and banking entities have cut ties with IRW over terror financing concerns.
Khaled Lamada, the one-time chairman of Islamic Relief USA whose tax documents show he served on the organization’s board until October 2022, circulated text praising the “Mujahidin of Egypt” for “causing the Jews many defeats” through “jihad” in 2014, according to a Facebook post found by the Middle East Forum. The same year, he reportedly reposted messages on social media praising Hamas for inflicting a “huge defeat” against the “Zionist entity.”
Egyptian media and the George Washington University Program on Extremism have identified Lamada as an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, participates in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Justice in the Hart Senate Office Building on Oct. 7, 2025.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
Several other Republican lawmakers interacted with Islamic Relief USA after the State Department denounced the organization.
Sens. Ted Cruz and Chuck Grassley, for instance, sent holiday greetings to the group in 2022. Staff working for then-Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rick Scott met with members of the group to discuss pending public health legislation in March of that same year, according to a social media post. Representatives for Islamic Relief USA were even reportedly invited to a 2025 meeting with Trump administration officials to discuss the future of foreign aid, according to the National Catholic Reporter.
“More than four years ago, members of our healthcare team took a Zoom meeting with constituents who said they had questions about domestic healthcare policy,” a spokesman for Scott told Fox News Digital. “Neither those staffers nor Senator Scott knew that representatives from IRUSA would be joining the conference call. The Senator’s record on combating antisemitism and Islamist threats to American society more than speaks for itself.”
Fox News Digital reached representatives for Cruz, Grassley and Rubio for comment on Friday.
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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, spoke to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 10, 2026, warning that Democrats’ blockade of DHS funding could affect security preparations for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in the U.S.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu)
Islamic Relief Worldwide has consistently denied having any links to terror organizations.
“Islamic Relief Worldwide operates to the highest standards of governance, compliance and oversight across all our work,” a spokesperson for the organization told Fox News Digital. “We are a purely humanitarian organization, and we stand firmly against all forms of extremism, including antisemitism. Our staff deliver aid in some of the world’s most dangerous places and some of our own colleagues have lost their lives to acts of terror. We have been victims of terrorism, not supporters of it. The leading financial institutions that work with us demand our work to be rigorously audited by governments, institutions and leading accounting firms, which have all confirmed that our funds are used for entirely humanitarian purposes.”
Islamic Relief Worldwide claimed in a 2017 report that, in its various legal battles, “to date there has been no tangible evidence to substantiate any of the allegations made.”
HSBC Bank ended its relationship with Islamic Relief Worldwide in 2016 amid terror financing concerns. Swiss banking giant UBS had done the same four years earlier. Israel, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands and Germany have all taken actions against Islamic Relief Worldwide for its alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
With Lamada as a leader, Islamic Relief USA was Islamic Relief Worldwide’s largest source of funding, providing its parent organization with tens of millions of dollars per year in cash in 2021 and 2022, according to an Islamic Relief Worldwide financial disclosure.
The entire Islamic Relief Worldwide board resigned in August 2020 following reporting of widespread antisemitism among its senior leadership by The Times of London. One director, for instance, reportedly described Jews as the “grandchildren of monkeys and pigs” in a social media post, while others heaped praise on Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
A few months earlier, in June 2020, Cornyn filmed a video wishing Islamic Relief USA a happy Ramadan, the name for the Islamic holy month marked by fasting and prayer.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, are pictured together.(Fox News Digital)
In October 2025, Islamic Relief USA moved to sever its relationship with Islamic Relief Worldwide, stating “certain allegations regarding the conduct of IRW” would “affect negatively IRUSA’s well-deserved good reputation,” according to a legal complaint filed in March.
“IRW has not only refused to cooperate in taking steps to avoid such existential risks but took further steps to increase those risks to IRUSA, which in turn threatened its ability to provide relief to its beneficiaries worldwide,” reads the complaint, filed by Islamic Relief USA.
Tax records show that Islamic Relief USA has provided funding to the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas, the mosque behind EPIC City, a planned Islamic community that has become a flash point in Texas politics. Both Cornyn and Paxton have taken actions to obstruct construction of the community.
Cornyn’s office and Islamic Relief USA did not respond to requests for comment after being reached by Fox News Digital on Friday.