The Church also finances Islamist groups through its official international humanitarian arm, LDS Charities, the Middle East Forum think tank found.
Charities affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are among the top donors to a dozen charities aligned with foreign Islamist movements, according to a study released last month.
A major Salt Lake City-based Mormon charity, Globus Relief, gave a total of at least $119 million to 10 radical Islamist charities tied to the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas, the investigative report by the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum think tank found.
The Mormon charity’s top grantee, Islamic Relief, is a leading Islamist charitable institution whose branches have been described by the Dutch and German governments as components of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, the study states.