Raymond Ibrahim: Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad - '...the facts remain: In Islam, killing certain "evil-doers," such as apostates or homosexuals, is a way of "correcting injustice"; overthrowing manmade constitutional orders (such as the United States) and replacing them with Sharia mandates, and subjugating women and non-Muslims, are ways of "reforming society." Those enforcing all this are, in fact, "better people" -- indeed, according to the Koran (3:110), they are "the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong," that is, ruling according to Sharia law. So it is with the Muslim concept of zakat, a word often rendered into English as "charity." But is that all zakat is -- mere Muslim benevolence by way of feeding and clothing the destitute of the world, as the word "charity" all too often connotes?...' [Why no, no it's not...]