Posted on 09/05/2005 12:00:55 AM PDT by Budgie
(Washington, D.C.) - The Muslim American Society (MAS) and its Freedom Foundation, and Islamic Relief USA, will hold a press conference on Friday, September 2 at 3:00 p.m. in front of the Holiday Inn across from the Houston Astrodome to announce ongoing relief efforts to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina.
MAS, America's largest grassroots Muslim organization with over fifty chapters, including those in Houston, Dallas and New Orleans, has teamed up with Islamic Relief USA, a U.N. NGO and member of the U.N. Economic and Social Council, with its offices in 30 countries.
MAS and its Freedom Foundation will announce major ongoing efforts initiated by the organization and Islamic Relief to mobilize the American Muslim community in order to work in concert with other national relief organizations, religious charities, government officials, and the private sector, to assist victims.
The press conference will be held in front of the Holiday Inn across from the Houston Astrodome at Reliant Park, 8111 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX, at 3:00 p.m.
Also attending the press conference will be Muslims who were evacuated from New Orleans and the surrounding area.
"There are three basic components to our work," stated MAS Freedom Foundation Executive Director Mahdi Bray.
"To encourage Muslims to open their mosques and homes to victims as well as adopting a family and renting an apartment for displaced families. Second, to collect and assist with the distribution of food and other consumable necessities to shelters and other temporary lodging facilities. And lastly, to insure that Islamic Relief has the resources to provide the high caliber assistance that they have provided throughout the years to victims of natural catastrophes here in the United States and abroad.”
“It is critical that we all pull together to help the thousands who have been devastated by Katrina," concluded Bray.
MAS has already encouraged mosques in Baton Rouge, LA, and surrounding areas to open their doors as temporary shelters, and are currently full. Efforts are now being made to house families in hotels and private homes. Additionally, MAS members are renting apartments for temporary living quarters. Currently, Islamic Relief is sending a major convoy with supplies to Baton Rouge; Mobile, Al; Houston, TX; and other areas affected by Katrina.
And MAS Freedom is also organizing and dispatching Muslim doctors and healthcare professionals to areas hit by Katrina.
Right across the street...so they can recruit people at their most vulnerable?
I find this rather...no - very alarming. Are we talking about thousands of Muslims right across the street from the Astrodome with tens of thousands of people in it???
I am worried about what they are really planning.
Oh, according to the date, they've already had it.
(Story from 9-1.)
Exactly, they will use these people's desperation to their advantage. You want a clean, air conditioned room? Hot food? $100K walking around money? No problem--just ditch your bible, take this Koran and repeat after me: "There is no G-d but Allah and Muhammad is his mess...."
Oops, I meant $1000 walking around money. Who knows how many people in this country would convert if they were offering $100K.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/006028.php
Says Hugh Fitzgerald of Mahdi Bray: "Soft-spoken and smiling and all sweet reason, and with a comfortably American voice, when addressing Infidels, he becomes something quite different for Muslim audiences, where he has been known to chant-and-rant, as in his call of support for Hamas before a crowd in Washington, or whipping up a crowd to show up at a courtroom to mock the proceedings which involved charging a Muslim with plotting to kill the American President. He is also careful, at the local level, to carry out all those carefully-calibrated and well-publicized deeds of supposed charity – to earn Infidel goodwill – that are described as being so useful in the conduct of Da’wa at Muslim sites"
Bray has been a very vocal supporter of Abu Ali, (accused of a plot to assasinate Pres. Bush), and Al-Timimi, and Abdurrahman Alamoudi,(currently serving 23 years for terrorism charges and attempts to assasinate Saudi prominent).
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