action against a single non-Muslim charity that works
in the same region helping to feed, educate and
sustain people who had also received assistance from
the Muslim charities accused of financing terrorism.
We are among those American Muslims who decided that
because it is our right as Americans to fulfill our
religious obligation to help the needy both here and
abroad, we would start a new charity. We did so in
2002 and have experienced our fair share of government
harassment as a result.
None of us is interested in engaging in illegal
activity; it is immoral, unethical and un-Islamic, and
it serves no useful purpose whatever. Our crime is
that we care about what happens to the children of
Palestine. Who knows what price we will have to pay
for our hot-breakfast program for hungry kids in Gaza,
for our playground project in the West Bank, for our
psychosocial trauma center in Hebron.
Under former attorney general John Ashcroft, American
Muslim charities were closed as part of the charade to
make the American people believe the government was
disrupting terrorist financing. Today, under Alberto
Gonzales, the message is that Muslim Americans will be
punished if they want to help Palestinians. Either way
the assault on our charities is not about the safety
and security of the American people but about
politics.
By Laila al-Marayati and Basil Abdelkarim
Washingtom Post, Sunday, March 12, 2006; Page B07
The writers, both physicians, are board members of
KinderUSA, a Muslim American nonprofit humanitarian
organization.
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