Jeff Duncan Quotes
The Obama administration, seemingly without any concern or worry, funneled money around U.S. law through foreign central banks to provide a state sponsor of terrorism with $400 million in blood money for American hostages.
Duncan, Jeff. "Duncan Statement on Obama Admin Ransom Payment to Iran." U.S. Congressman Jeff Duncan, 3 Aug. 2016.
regarding their financing of terrorism.
There are legitimate Islamic charities as well as those who are fronts for terrorist organizations. Some of the terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah blur the distinctions by actually having a charitable and/or political role in addition to their terrorist activities. Hezbollah, for example, in addition to their terrorist activities, has won some seats in the Lebanese Parliament and finances some legitimate charitable activities. So, often donors, including American donors, think they are funding the charitable activities but the money goes into terrorist activities. Even in the case where money goes to legitimate charities, very often those charities are complicit with the terrorists in many ways ranging from allowing terrorists to use their facilities (including hospitals and mosques) for the hiding of terrorists, planning of terrorists, and in some cases the storage and hiding of weapons and explosives. In some cases, so called legitimate charities actually paid the families of suicide bombers who had deliberately killed innocent civilians including Americans.
Islamic Religious Fundamentalist Terrorists in Algeria had kidnapped over 100 Western Hostages including some Americans. One of the terrorist’s “demands” was for the release of convicted murderers and terrorists in the United States. The official policy which she stated was not totally accurate. On several occasions, U. S. Officials or third parties representing them had “unofficially” negotiated with terrorists. In many cases this was a tactic to buy time and military action followed and in other cases unofficial ransoms were actually paid. The United States has had to contend with this problem with Islamic Terrorists and Pirates since the Thomas Jefferson Presidency when he argued against John Adams who wanted to pay the tribute while Jefferson preferred military action.
This is diplomatic language for a very stern warning. Pakistan supported terrorist organizations because 1) they used the terrorists as their proxies in their continuing conflict with India. The terrorists were a de facto asset of the Pakistani Intelligence Service. 2) Many Pakistani citizens were ultra-orthodox Muslims and believed in the religious objectives of the terrorists and even shared a religious belief in the propriety of the terrorist methods as long as they were being applied to non-Muslims or Muslim heretics. 3) Much of the militant infrastructure was in the tribal, frontier areas of the country where the government was relatively weak. 4) The militants had taken the position that if the Pakistan government tried to curtail their jihad efforts, then the government and its supports were heretical Muslims and were, under Sharia—Islamic Law—proper targets for their terrorism activities. The number of Pakistani Muslims that the terrorists murdered was far greater ironically than the American or European Christians and Indian Hindus that had been killed. A decade later, the Pakistani authorities were split over those who realized that the terrorists were most dangerous to the Pakistanis themselves—and especially the government officials—and those who believed that the terrorists should have continued support because of the 4 reasons above.
Azad Kashmir is that part of the disputed territory of Kashmir that was under Pakistan’s control, as opposed to the part of Kashmir that was under Indian Control.
Some Americans and Europeans have urged Putin to solve the Chechen problem politically---to sit down and negotiate with the leaders. The Chechen terrorists have been particularly brutal killing hundreds of children at a time. Putin felt that it was easy for Americans and Europeans to tell him to negotiation with terrorist murders while they would never do so with the terrorists that had killed their people in their countries. Chechen is a province of Russia where fundamentalist Islamic terrorists mounted an armed, violent, terrorist insurrection and then spread their terrorism to other parts of Russia. Brussels was the political capital of Europe.
Jeffrey Darren Duncan is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, his district covers the northwestern part of the state. Duncan previously served as the South Carolina State Representative for the 15th district from 2003 to 2011.
