01-26-2008, 01:08 PM
Asalaamu alikum Muslimah,
Well, I dont feel like I have any good ideas. BUt the first thing we all should be doing is start to speak up. How can it be that any nation can prevent food aid to starving people of any nation and get away with something like that? How is it that people die of things such as athsma or diabetes and a million other human rights abuses that the whole world lets it go unnoticed? Is it because there is nobody speaking up that these things continue? Of course this is not something only Muslims should care about, but should muslims should care the most. And maybe we do, but I wonder if we have suffered some kind of mental defeat, I mean that people are afraid to donate money for fear of being thrown into prison for supporting 'terrorism' (my God) but we are supporting the terrorism now by keeping ourselves quiet. Foreign born Muslims feel if they even speak they may be deported or jailed or whatever. And what is the excuse for American Muslims? I dont know. When will we wake up? What would happen if every Muslim living in the USA just gave 10$ to help Palestine? What are they going to do, come lock every single one of us up? Or what if each of us did something, even small, to educate the people around us, to talk to our congress people, and while I dont have alot of faith in trusting politicians to do anything, if we make alot of moise maybe they would be forced to do something. They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
If we show the world we dont care about our own people, why will anybody else?
May Allah forgive us and guide us, Ameen.