Muslim Live8

By Nimr

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.”

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  1. Anonymous

    Wow, Nimr missed the memo, apparently.

    Don’t you know, Darfur is nothing more than a fake controversy spurred on and ginned up by “Zioinsts” to bash Arabs over the head and distract from the situation in Palestine.

    Expect a nasty email from Will. You have no idea how badly you’re off message here.

    #11778
  2. typical ADL zionist

    genocide? us Zionists don’t selectively apply this term. for example, while what’s happening in Sudan is a genocide committed by ARABS against BLACKS, there was never an Armenian genocide.

    #11777
  3. Anonymous

    8:56 just proved 2:44′s point.

    Classic.

    Poor Nimr.

    #11776

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