Muslim Groups Step In To Help Black Churches Burned In Wave Of Arson

[applegrove]

Muslim Groups Step In To Help Black Churches Burned In Wave Of Arson

by Jack Jenkins at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/16/3681547/muslims-raise-money-for-black-churches/

"SNIP............


A group of American Muslims is closing in on a goal to raise $100,000 to help African American churches impacted by a rash of arsons that raged through the South last month following the tragic murder of nine black worshippers in Charleston, South Carolina.

On Thursday, the Muslim nonprofit Ummah Wide announced that they have accrued almost $90,000 from fellow believers to assist several African American churches that fell victim to fires last month — some of which are suspected to be cases of arson. Ummah Wide is one of three Islamic groups helping coordinate the online fundraising effort, which began during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

“We must always keep in mind that the Muslim community and the black community are not different communities,” the fundraising website reads. “We are profoundly integrated in many ways, in our overlapping identities and in our relationship to this great and complicated country. We are connected to Black churches through our extended families, our friends and teachers, and our intertwined histories and convergent present.”

The website also urges fellow Muslims to hold teach-ins on how to protect houses of worship, as well as sign a petition asking President Barack Obama to reconvene the National Church Arson Task Force — a defunct government initiative originally set up in the mid-1990s, when a dozens of churches were burned in less than two years.


...........SNIP"

[randys1]

1. Good thing too, since they are REQUIRED to represent ALL Muslims. Wonder if they will denounce

the attack of the marines, as if they are responsible for it

[KamaAina]

2. Sit back and watch the teahadists' heads explode!

[madokie]

3. I guess those big bad Muslim's aren't so bad after all,

but then again this is black churches their trying to help.
I really wish white people would get over their hate for people of color, brown, black or yellow or of anything except Christian white people. Many of us see the hypocrisy of theirs and really wish they'd stop this hate on other people.
It would be a much better world if we'd all try to get along. Like John Lennon sang give peace a chance. Me being non religious I have no problem with anyone except bad people, I just want people to get along is all.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Why is this much of a story? When were any and all Christians held somehow responsible to respond foChristian Dylan Roof?