Posted on 07/07/2006 7:00:35 AM PDT by xzins
Muslims expand charity work to buff tarnished U.S. image
Myrtle Beach Online
By Sadia Latifi
July 06, 2006 We want to encourage them to go to beyond their mosques and their comfort levels and truly practice the religion More Muslims are volunteering this summer - and not just for traditional Muslim charities.
They're responding to a national Islamic group's appeal to get more involved in community social services and thereby turn back anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States.
'You can talk about the beauty of Islam until the end of time, but if you're not doing something tangible, then people will always say, 'Where are the Muslims?'' explained Dian Alyan, an outreach coordinator for the Muslim Community Association in the San Francisco Bay area. 'We need to change the rules of the game ... to concrete action.'
To that end, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a leading advocacy group, recently launched a three-month nationwide initiative called Muslims Care, which focuses on community health awareness, helping the needy and youth services. Like many people of other faiths, Muslims have focused charitable efforts largely on their own faith communities.
'We want to encourage them to go to beyond their mosques and their comfort levels and truly practice the religion,' said Rabiah Ahmed, CAIR communications coordinator. 'It also helps with the image issue. We find that Americans tend to change their attitude when they see Muslims engaged in service work and not just foreign policy.'
In Sacramento, Calif., CAIR organized four visits to homeless shelters this month to provide food and supplies. In Orlando, Fla., volunteers are hosting a community-wide picnic. In Columbus, Ohio, Muslims are coordinating a school supplies drive for underprivileged children. In Cincinnati, they're hosting a public health fair that includes physician counseling and screenings for cholesterol and high blood pressure.
Alyan, a founder of the GiveLight Foundation, which aids orphans in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, said she's optimistic that the good works will gain non-Muslim attention.
'Over time when you start building credibility, people will start noticing,' she said.
Well, good luck with all that.
One more reason why "works" probably wasn't the chosen method.
Charities being assisted:
- Inner City Neck Slashers Society
- Poor and Helpless Suicide Bombers for Allah
- Humane Death Society
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (and murder of Humans)
All I need to konw about muslims and arabs I learned on 9-11.
Perhaps they can get Farrakan to play a piece by Felix Mendelssohn on his violin again (you see, Felix Mendelssohn was a Jooooo)...
MUSLIMS CARE "that you get your head in the right place."
(a box)
Enforce Sharia, conduct a few honor killings, behead some infidels, murder a few Jews, blow themselves and some Americans up, drive an SUV into a crowd...c'mon people let's show some Muslim spirit!
Donate to this charity or Sharia law says you must DIE !!!
'Over time when you start building credibility, people will start noticing,' she said.
That's true.
When Muslims stand up and loudly condemn acts of terror instead of hemming and hawing their way thru a watery excuse/apology, then people will start noticing.
Until then, I'm not holding my breath.
Why don't they volunteer to build ships to ship themselves back to Mecca and Medina?
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That would be an act of ULTIMATE charity.
"Works" and propaganda are two different things.
LOL. I see you got it. :>)
Precisely.
Dhimmi doubletalk.
The "many people" of America contribute huge amounts of cash to charities which work with anyone, of any "faith community," e.g. the tsunami efforts which went almost entirely to Muslims and Buddhists, not Christians.
The true fact is that Muslims are cheap as dirt when it comes to helping their fellows in distress (again the tsunami illustrates it), and even worse so when it comes to helping the Kuffar and the Dhimmi, to whom charity is prohibited.
""Works" and propaganda are two different things."
And this article is dripping with evidecne that this is just another PR stunt with little actual substance. It's all about "image" for Muslims.
If I'm not mistaken, it is actually against Islam for the Moos to donate one red cent to the Kuffar and the Dhimmi.
As you will note that the closing sentence is about a charity for Banda Achea, which is a Muslim province. Why not a charity for kids in her American hometown?
Oh, I guess I hadn't noticed.
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