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Source: http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/870
Judges in Boim Appeal Slam Distinctions Between Hamas Charitable and Violent Wings
[Investigative Project on Terrorism] Steven Emerson - The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling Wednesday that eliminated the distinction between supporting the violent and social wings of a terrorist group. "If you give money to an organization that you know to be engaged in terrorism, the fact that you earmark it for the organization's nonterrorist activities does not get you off the liability hook," Judge Richard Posner wrote for the majority. The ruling favors Joyce and Stanley Boim, whose son David was shot and killed by Hamas terrorists in 1996, upholding a $156 million damages judgment against the Quranic Literacy Institute and the American Muslim Society. Attorney Stephen Landes hailed the decision as an important precedent for families of people killed by terrorists because it helps "victims of terror make the people paying the terrorists pay the victims."