SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 23: The Indian Muslims Council-USA (IMC-USA) on Saturday called on the US administration to investigate the India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF), a US-based relief organization, for being a conduit to funnel the tax-exempt US donations to terrorist groups in India.

The call came after a report released by the Sabrang Communications Private Limi-ted (India) and The South Asia Citizens Web (France) on the involvement of the IDRF in funneling the US donations to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an Indian terrorist organization.

In a statement, the Muslims body said the conclusions of the report entitled ‘A Foreign Exchange of Hate (FEH)’ confirmed that the IDRF contributed significantly to the creation of infrastructure and promotion of an ideology that promulgated hate.

The IMC-USA, a human rights advocacy group for activism against rising attacks on the Indian Muslims, also said: “This report further corroborates the assertion of many human rights and secular groups that millions of dollars are being sent from the United States to the extremist groups in India, like the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) and the RSS. These tax-exempt charitable donations are being sent to the groups that spread hate, are indulged in ethnic cleansing and genocide of minorities in India as recently as March 2002 when over 2,000 Indians (Muslims) were killed, many burnt alive, hundreds of women and young (Muslim) girls raped and burnt.”

The IMC-USA pointed out that the VHP had been at the forefront of the recent carnage in Gujarat and the VHP working president, Ashok Singhal, had called it “a successful experiment, which will be repeated all over the country”. The same groups are responsible for the anti-Christian violence in India.

It also calls on the United Way and major corporations including CISCO, Sun, Oracle, HP and AOL Times Warner to drop the IDRF from their list of charities so that their foundation dollars are not abused to promote the fascist ideology in India and also in the US.