>Well isn’t that special.
Muslims being nice to Jews.
IT’S THE DEVIL
Posted on 02/24/2017 1:01:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
When Tarek El Messidi saw photographs of more than 100 headstones toppled by vandals at a Jewish cemetery in a St Louis suburb, he saw a chance for Muslims to help.
Along with Linda Sarsour, another Muslim-American activist, he launched a fundraising appeal to pay for repairs.
It blew past its US$20,000 (Dh73,450) target within three hours and reached $66,000 by mid-day on Wednesday - less than a day later.
He said any money left over from helping at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in University City, Missouri, would go to other Jewish groups suffering abuse.
"Anti-Semitism is an ongoing problem, in addition to Islamophobia across the country," he said. "I just felt we needed to do something about this and show that both our communities will stand together against this sort of hate and desecration."
A bitter election campaign and the victory of Donald Trump, who has been accused of both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, have been blamed in part for the rise in hate crimes across the US.
Arsonists have attacked three mosques so far this year, while the Jewish community centre association said 54 Jewish community centres reported bomb threats.
Mr Trump addressed the anti-Jewish sentiment for the first time on Tuesday.
"The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centres are horrible and are painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil," he said.
Police in St Louis are reviewing security camera footage in an effort to identify the individuals responsible for damaging more than 170 headstones on Saturday or Sunday.
Mr El Messidi, director of Celebrate Mercy, a non-profit organisation that seeks to promote a better understanding of Islam, said the photographs reminded him of a story from the life of the Prophet Mohammed, who on one occasion stood up to pay respects for a passing Jewish funeral procession.
When questioned on why he stood for a Jewish funeral, he responded: "Is it not a human soul?"
Mr El Messidi added: "It reminded me of the basic humanity that all our religions teach. Every person regardless of faith background or their political views deserves to rest in peace."
He is also organising teams of volunteers to help with the clean-up and has received messages of thanks from members of the Jewish community.
"I have family buried in that cemetery and was heartbroken seeing the desecration of the final resting place of some of my loved ones," said one email. "Your kind and loving spirit gives hope to me that we can have mutual respect and tolerance of our differences and shared humanity."
Mr El Messidi said those messages were a reminder that people of different faiths had much to share.
"Even though the Jewish and Muslim communities have not typically worked closely together before, the silver lining in all the hate we are hearing is that it is bringing both our communities together," he said.
PR attempt.
It’s about time.
no doubt.
I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt but I have a feeling you might be right.
It would be great if this really was sincere.
How much was raised to desecrate the gravestones?
It’s a trick don’t fall for it
Until Islam is wiped out, they will always be what they are....SUBJECTS.
>Well isn’t that special.
Muslims being nice to Jews.
IT’S THE DEVIL
Good deeds are never wasted, no matter what the motives.
By their fruits you shall know them.
More of this and less of CAIR shouting demands will, over the long term, improve my opinion.
Yeah. Go fund me? Did the money come from muslims? I think not.
This whole Jewish cemetery thing is sounding like a left-wing set-up: (1) it will be blamed on Trump and his supporters; and (2) Muslims will heroically pay for repairs.
There ya go...fixed it for ya.
If Hillary was president there would be no collection for repair to this cemetery.
But Trump is president and he intends to cut of immigration from 7 Muslim majority nations that want to export terrorist to the United States.
So Muslims in this country have to do something to rehabilitate Muslims in the minds of the American public.
Hmmm what will they do? Help little old ladies across the street. Nope not public enough.
Hmmm Help Jews? Yeh, that’s the ticket.
Linda Sarsour?
Oooh not good. She is a pro-Sharia law Palestinian activist.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/figrues-organizer-dc-womens-march-linda-sarsour-pro-sharia-law-ties-hamas/
Of all the people to raise money for this...
But wait there’s more:
http://www.israellycool.com/2017/02/23/revealed-the-twisted-version-of-tikkun-olam-in-linda-sarsours-playbook/
Linda Sarsour is very controversial. Googling her brings up all sorts of information. She is anti-Israel, pro-BDS, and of course, pro Sharia Law. Good grief!
Once I saw that the pro-Sharia flaming leftist Sarsour was involved, I can immediately conclude it’s a political stunt.
A fairly reasonably priced investment in protecting the image. Wonder if the same bunch did the desecrating.
Yee haw.
Do they recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state? How much money have they given to the victims of 9/11? The Achille Lauro? Pulse Nightclub? Pan Am Flight 103? Benghazi?
All sounds like a PR stunt.
I agree that I would love it if it were sincere.
The publicized involvement of Linda Sarsour, anti-Jewish provocateur (”How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust? -— Not enough!”)) and organizer of the Pussy March, makes me 2x skeptical.
Unfortunately.
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