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Allegation of terrorism assocation

Since there will likely be occasional controversy over the inclusion of the terrorism allegation section, I will give the background (recopied) below.

Chronology of what happened: Al Naimi and Al Humaiqani were effectively declared terrorists by the US Treasury (the DoT makes the announcement because the allegation is financial), in response to which associated groups like Amnesty International said nothing. The national media followed with its own reporting, which was largely copy-pasted directly from the DoT press release, and many outlets directly associated Alkarama as part of a list of Muslim-terrorist-charity-front organizations.

I forget how I got interested in the story - I check out news on related issues fairly regularly, so I probably stumbled on some news story about this and got annoyed at the lack of detail. I dug around the background - financial info, old news outlets (Al Humaiqani was named exactly once in all the news archived ever by or about Alkarama) - and it pretty much confirmed that the allegation of financing terrorist activities would be painfully circumstantial. Even if it weren't, Al Humaiqani has had almost no association with Alkarama's operations since its founding, and Al Naimi's accusation is based almost exclusively on his association with Al Humaiqani. That said, the counterpoint that this was a retaliation for criticizing U.S. policy doesn't make much sense to me - it seems much more likely to be an indirect political attack/maneuver against Al Naimi or Yemen or something.

Anyway, the next step was to put these findings into the article, which resulted in the section you see. I studied journalism and try to write objective content while making my assessment clear enough, but if that's not the case here, feel free to edit.

But the fact remains that the entire US news media reported on this between the initial DoT press release, Al Naimi's response, Amnesty's lack of response, and Al Naimi's resignation. These articles are permanently archived on all the various blogs, so when somebody googles "Alkarama", they will see articles with big headlines like "Terrorists For Human Rights" (DailyKos). Almost no blogs or news outlets did the research to at least get some assessment of the claims (otherwise I would have had way less work to do). The accusation and its damage are permanently archived online, so this WP article does its job for clarifying the truth of the matter for those curious about the organization by keeping this section. (orig. 21:47, 18 July 2014 (UTC)) SamuelRiv (talk) 16:02, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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