"I said that we, as a policy, have a relationship with Hamas from before and this will continue"-Anwar ibrahim's admission renews concerns about Malaysia's support for jihadis and Anwar and his IIIT's funding of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has informed the Malaysian Parliament: 

"I said that we, as a policy, have a relationship with Hamas from before and this will continue......".

Anwar's admission comes after renewed reporting of a Hamas terror cell being trained in Malaysia.  It also draws attention to the links between HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood, given Anwar's Muslim Brotherhood antecedents. 

The HAMAS -Muslim Brotherhood link is summarised by Dr Loretta Napoleoni, author of Terror Inc, (2005) which remains to this day a primer of financing of terrorism: 

Since the group took inspiration from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Jihad in Egypt and Jordan, it developed strong links with these and other Islamic fundamentalist armed groups, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah.

Anwar's International Institute Of Islamic Thoought 's funding of Palestnian Isalmic Jihad has been documented and subejct of ICE and FBI investigations since at least 2005. 

His defiant declaration to the Malaysian Parliament is a reminder of that past,and of the Malaysian Government's support for jihadi organisations throughout the region,and in the Middle East.