Muslim Live8
A collection of Islamic organizations and charities are producing a Muslim style Live8 concert in England to celebrate Eid and raise funds and awareness for Darfur. Although I couldn’t find the concert lineup, it looks like the headliner will definitely be Sami Yusuf, who has recently been the focus of a fair amount of media coverage in the West. From the article about the concert:
Mr Malik said: “This is a thorny issue for us and it is clear that we have to do more. It is a challenge for us because people are highly motivated and get highly charged in other areas, and we need to do considerably more.”Fareena Alam, editor of the Muslim magazine Q News, described the response from British Muslims as “shameful”.
She said: “We can get hot and bothered about Iraq. There is a lot of information about Darfur. There is no doubt this is Muslim-on-Muslim violence.
“In this situation where are these values we talk about, that killing one life is about killing humanity? It is a huge embarrassment to us. We need to have a very big conversation about this.”
