Muslim activists raise over $70,000 to aid vandalized Jewish cemetery

[Phys251]

Muslim activists raise over $70,000 to aid vandalized Jewish cemetery - ABC News

As of early Wednesday morning, a crowdfunding campaign started by Muslim activists had raised over $70,000 in an effort to help repair a vandalized Jewish cemetery near St. Louis, Missouri.

"Muslim Americans stand in solidarity with the Jewish-American community to condemn this horrific act of desecration against the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery," read the crowdfunding campaign's website, which was spearheaded by Muslim-American activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi. "We also extend our deepest condolences to all those who have been affected and to the Jewish community at large."

The effort comes after more than 170 headstones were damaged late Sunday or early Monday at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, located in the St. Louis suburb of University City, according to a report by the Associated Press on Tuesday.

As of early Wednesday morning, the LaunchGood-hosted campaign had raised more than $58,000, far surpassing the original $20,000 fundraising goal that the organizers said had been met in just three hours.

It is always refreshing when people put their personal and religious differences aside in order to help others in need. Kind of like the Good Samaritan.

 

[TheGoverness]

Muslim activists raise over $70,000 to aid vandalized Jewish cemetery - ABC News



It is always refreshing when people put their personal and religious differences aside in order to help others in need. Kind of like the Good Samaritan.

Hope for Humanity has increased by 1.

 

[joG]

Muslim activists raise over $70,000 to aid vandalized Jewish cemetery - ABC News



It is always refreshing when people put their personal and religious differences aside in order to help others in need. Kind of like the Good Samaritan.

That seems an excellent PR measure.

 

[Skeptic Bob]

Very heart warming.

 

[reinoe]

That seems an excellent PR measure.

Yep. 50/50 that this vandalism was done by Muslims or Jews.

 

[Chomsky]

It's understandable, when putting an American perspective on it.

Domestically, they have a common enemy!

 

[11Bravo]

Muslim activists raise over $70,000 to aid vandalized Jewish cemetery - ABC News



It is always refreshing when people put their personal and religious differences aside in order to help others in need. Kind of like the Good Samaritan.

have they investigated if the money was laced with poison

 

[Phys251]

have they investigated if the money was laced with poison

Please stop trying to derail this conversation.

 

[Tanngrisnir]

Yep. 50/50 that this vandalism was done by Muslims or Jews.

There is no rational basis for quantifying such odds.

Please try again.

 

[Phys251]

That seems an excellent PR measure.

It was a crowdfunding campaign. Or did you miss that memo?

 

[shrubnose]

have they investigated if the money was laced with poison

How could you poison electronic wire transfers?

Fill us in.

:lol:

 

[apdst]

Good for them.

 

[coldjoint]

That seems an excellent PR measure.

"Too Much, too Little, too Late"

 

[11Bravo]

How could you poison electronic wire transfers?

Fill us in.

:lol:

with hate filled messages about those poor jewish people

 

[Chillfolks]

It was a crowdfunding campaign. Or did you miss that memo?

Ok so a bunch of people who nay or nay not have been muslin donated but the headlines still say it was a Muslin activists that raised the money.

For me that seems like while this is a nice feel good story. It is has been spun into a PR campaign.


Just because it's a PR campaign it doesn't negate how good it is to see people of multiple backgrounds working together

 

[shrubnose]

with hate filled messages about those poor jewish people

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If you have any proof that anyone has done that let's see it.

 

[Phys251]

Ok so a bunch of people who nay or nay not have been muslin donated but the headlines still say it was a Muslin activists that raised the money.

For me that seems like while this is a nice feel good story. It is has been spun into a PR campaign.


Just because it's a PR campaign it doesn't negate how good it is to see people of multiple backgrounds working together

You sound concerned that this will help to give Muslims a good name.

 

[joG]

It was a crowdfunding campaign. Or did you miss that memo?

What does that have to do with it?

 

[joG]

"Too Much, too Little, too Late"

A long journey starts with a single step.

 

[tres borrachos]

How the **** did a thread with a nice story in the ****ing OP get derailed by low class and ignorant comments by the local anti-Muslim brigade?

 

[Manc Skipper]

Both minority groups are under attack from the far Christian right, so share a common bond.

 

[Chillfolks]

You sound concerned that this will help to give Muslims a good name.

I personal recognise Muslims as a whole are neither good or bad they simply are. It is individuals that are good or bad. The folks who seemed concerned of how Muslims are viewed would be the author of the sorry and you for being concerned some recognize this as a PR campaign. Do you not think this can be an example of communities conning together and a PR campaign at the same time? Do you fail to grasp how people can see it as a good heartwarming story and also see it as a PR campaign? Why can't you recognize this as both?

 

[Thoreau72]

have they investigated if the money was laced with poison

No, but like all US currency it was laced with cocaine. :mrgreen:

 

[Thoreau72]

How the **** did a thread with a nice story in the ****ing OP get derailed by low class and ignorant comments by the local anti-Muslim brigade?

Because it is very fashionable to be anti-Muslim these days. Mean spirits and small minds are part of the official intolerance.

 

[DA60]

Xenophobes will hate this thread.