As America fights a war against terror, there is a slew of lobbying and PR firms helping to promote questionable causes.

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires Americans acting as agents of foreign principals in a political capacity to make public disclosures of their relationships. Just revealed FARA filings indicate that The Belew Law Group, a Washington-based company, has registered to lobby for the Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammed al-Thani Charitable Foundation. The Qatar-based charity has been “linked with Hamas and was one of 36 funds declared as banned by Israel in 2008. U.S. officials have also accused one of its founding members of funneling millions of dollars to al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria.”

Warren Belew – founder of The Belew Group - has previously represented the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF), a funder of Al-Qaeda which had a direct relationship with Osama Bin-Laden and whose leader reportedly was involved in “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts of activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of" Al-Qaeda.

The Belew Group is not the only American group. March 2015 filings reveal that The Raben Group is representing Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), which is considered a terrorist organization by multiple governments for supporting Hamas, and last year, one of the largest public relations firms in the world, Burson-Marsteller, represented the Tunisian Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood while refusing to represent Israel.

In November 2014, it was revealed that Qatar, which is under Sharia law, discriminates against gays and women, and is a major funder of Hamas, is represented by major international Public Relations firm Portland Communications “for a communications/political push targeted at Congress and federal agencies to improve ties with the US.”  There have been agencies who work for Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the Assad family, and others.

Public Relations trade magazine Everything PR recently quoted a European PR firm owner, Ivo Ilic Gabara of BGR Gabara, as saying, “Mother Teresa doesn’t need our services. She isn’t going to come to us as a client. It’s always the difficult issues. If someone is willing to spend money on media relations, it’s because they have a problem.”

Some Americans deem it acceptable to help terrorists package their messages to politicians and the media.

Ronn Torossian is Founder of a leading PR Agency, and has been named Public Relations executive of the year by the American Business Awards.