Muslims Raise Thousands for Jewish Shooting Victims

[applegrove]

By Leo Vidal at Politicus USA

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/10/28/muslims-raise-thousands-for-jewish-shooting-victims.html

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Nearly $50,000 has been raised through a Muslim crowdfunding site for the victims of the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday. The site was started by two Muslim nonprofit organizations.

The fundraising campaign was launched on the site LaunchGood, which is a crowdfunding site specifically designed for Muslims. It reached its initial goal of $25,000 in less than six hours, and is now working to raise its new goal of $50,000.

“The Muslim-American community extends its hands to help the shooting victims, whether it is the injured victims or the Jewish families who have lost loved ones,” the website description reads. “We wish to respond to evil with good, as our faith instructs us, and send a powerful message of compassion through action.”

The fundraiser was started by two Muslim-American nonprofit groups, Celebrate Mercy and MPower Change. They say they are working in partnership with the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh who will assist them in distributing the money to the victims and their families.



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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Fantastic!!!!!

[ck4829]

2. Muslim Americans are 10x more American than Trump's "very fine people"

[True Dough]

3. You bet!

We don't hear enough about these sorts of rallies of support by perceived enemies, but they do happen quite often.

[applegrove]

4. They get along fine in the US where actual mosques and synagogues are concerned.

In the days after 9/11 a film crew followed two visibly Muslim people, in Muslim garb, to the vigil at ground zero. It was a Jewish woman who went up to them and said "Are you being treated okay, are people leaving you alone". I balled my eyes out. Last night in a vigil in NY City Muslims formed a protective barrier around the people mourning. And the victims of this attack will get together with the rest of the world and change this world of hate. They'll get it done. Jewish people have done it before. They'll do it again.

[True Dough]

5. Wonderful anecdotes

I realize the hostility is much worse in the Middle East, but there are many examples of unity among Jews and Muslims in North America, like the ones you cited.

I often think of this story, for example...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/12/03/1000-american-rabbis-sign-letter-welcoming-syrian-refugees/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.795d7800a760

[applegrove]

8. Wow! Just wow!

[Hekate]

6. That made me cry -- again

[nini]

7. Beautiful and what one's religion should be about.. reaching out to those in need.

I'm sure the 'Christians' are too busy cleaning their guns to bother

[Ilsa]

9. May Allah bless them. The Jewish community

rallied for muslims in Victoria Texas, IIRC, when some islamophobe burned down their Islamic center. I believe they offered their own temple for meeting.

[applegrove]

13. I remember that.

[NastyRiffraff]

10. Beautiful story

This is the kind of thing Trump simply can't understand. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he says Muslims and Jews are colluding against him. Because it has to be all about him.

[Enoki33]

11. Yes. We as a people can still can still rise above the hatred without

leadership from the top.

[ProudLib72]

12. Tzedakah is the concept

To learn more: Tzedakah 101: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tzedakah-101/

It works both ways!

[Behind the Aegis]

14. Not at all surprised.

When Muslims are the victims, Jews rise to the occasion and the opposite is true. When it comes to the American versions, Jews and Muslims are not "opposites" and often look to one another for support, despite what many may think.