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A reminder you can donate here to help Gaza

https://www.unrwa.org/

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AID FOR PALESTINE COMMISSIONS!

To order a piece donate to any of the outlets in the links below, then DM me with a receipt or other proof of your donation.

DONATION OUTLETS UNDER THE CUT

Gaza eSIMs helps keep Palestinians connected to the wider world, essential to keep families and friends connected over long distance and to document the ongoing crisis.

Zakat Foundation of America provides immediate emergency family relief supplies. Medical, hygiene, food, and more.

MedGlobal provides emergency response and health programs across the world. This is their Gaza donor box.

Pious Projects Emergency Relief for Gaza offers a 0% admin fee, meaning 100% of your donation goes to emergency relief.

Asad sisters' Feminine Hygiene for Gaza is run on the same site as the previous option, with a specific focus on increasingly-sparse feminine hygiene - important to address because of the ongoing femicide aspects of the genocide.

Care for Gaza is a nonprofit charity that distributes emergency relief, chiefly food.

Medical Aid for Palestinians is a UK-based org that provides medical relief to Palestine.

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Gaza

disclaimer:

I have talked about it before, but getting aid to Gazans is a harder task then usually. Despite the millions that are poured into Gaza, most of it does not get to the people, and Gaza stays poor. The money is often taken by Hamas and it's leaders, each of those leaders fortune is values in the billions. What is left is used for Hamas operations, paying to the families for people who attack Israelis, and only then get to the people.

For physical aid, such as medical aid and food, we have similar problems. Hamas takes what it needs for itself, the black market takes another share. What is left is distributed mainly by UNRWA who are known to keep stocks of food in warehouses and not distribute them, and if you know who to talk to, there are places in side Israel were you can buy groceries still with the UNRWA symbol on.

This means that no matter if Israel allows all the aid in, and no matter how much money you will donate, there is a little guarantee that the aid will get to the Gazans that need it.

So what do you do?

If you know anyone personally that is in the strip and can transfer them money, do it. If you have a way to bypass the charities and help specific people, this is your best bet.

I have put here some Aid Organizations that are relatively good at getting aid directly to the people, and if I can verify more organizations I will add them. I will also add Organizations that might not provide direct aid but work for the sake of the people in Gaza.

There are field/floating hospitals on their way or next to Gaza, the moment here is a link to donate to them I will add it here.

Medical aid for Palestinians

Anera

Doctors without borders

Gisha

An Israeli NGO that works for to protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents.

Zakat Foundation of America

NGO giving emergency relief around the world - it helped after the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and helped in the US after Katrina. You can direct where you want the donation to go, with Gaza being an option.

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Reblogging and Editing a Revised List of charities (while also removing problematic ones):

Alliance for Peace in the Middle East

The Road to Recovery

Project Hope

Muslim Aid USA

Zakat Foundation of America

Mistaclim: Looking the Occupation in the Eye

Feminine Hygiene Kits for Gaza with the Asad Sisters

Gaza Cemetery Project

Friends of Roots

Mrs Najah's Kitchen: Gaza Emergency Meals

Lutheran World Relief

Care For Gaza

Also, be sure to check out other charities/organizations under the #donations and #signal boost tags on my blog.

List of charities (that I know of) to donate to in order to provide emergency relief to those suffering in Gaza:

Medical Aid for Palestinians

Anera

Hakini

Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS)

Human Appeal

Doctors Without Borders

Islamic Relief Palestine Emergency Appeal (UK)

Palestinian American Medical Association (PAMA)

Gaza Emergency Appeal

UNICEF

World Central Kitchen

If anyone has any other recommendations or suggestions, feel free to share them in the comment section, or even reblog this post!

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All Gone, Dust. Oh, The Sorrow

As-Salamu Alaikum When I was browsing through my previous articles I wrote for The Zakat Foundation Of America, I came across one I wrote for Ghaza. Reading it now made me feel like I was on some sort of bizarre science fiction tale. How? This happened in the space of a few weeks, and now there is nothing where there used to be a life. And we watch. And our leaders turn into a bunch back…

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Baitulmaal: Bridging Compassion with Action

At the heart of human kindness lies the desire to make a difference, a shared dream of a world where empathy and support extend beyond borders and barriers. Baitulmaal stands as a beacon of this hope, transforming lives through comprehensive aid and sustainable development. 

Who We Are

Baitulmaal is a non-profit organization that began with a simple yet powerful vision: to provide life-saving, life-sustaining, and life-enriching assistance to underprivileged communities around the world. Our foundation is built on transparency, integrity, and the universal values of charitable giving. We are committed to not just addressing immediate needs but also fostering long-term resilience in the communities we serve.

What We Do for the People

Our work is driven by the belief that everyone deserves access to basic human necessities — food, water, shelter, and healthcare. Baitulmaal's initiatives are diverse, tailored to meet the varied needs of the communities we assist. From emergency relief in crisis situations to sustainable development projects that improve education, healthcare, and economic opportunities, we are there to help.

How We Utilize Donations:

Every dollar donated to Baitulmaal is a seed planted towards a future where hope flourishes. We ensure that your contributions directly support projects that provide clean water, food security, medical aid, education, and economic empowerment. Our approach is to work closely with local communities, understanding their needs, and implementing solutions that are both effective and sustainable.

Where We Work

Our reach is global, with projects in over 50 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Baitulmaal steps in wherever the need is greatest, focusing on regions that are often overlooked or under-served by larger aid organizations. Whether it's responding to natural disasters, conflict zones, or chronic poverty, our goal is to uplift communities and leave a lasting positive impact.

How to Donate

Joining Baitulmaal in its mission is a testament to the power of collective action. Donating is made easy through our website, where individuals can contribute to general funds or specific projects. We offer various donation options, including one-time gifts, monthly donations, zakat, and sadaqah, ensuring your contribution fits your financial ability and preferences. Your generosity can change lives, and together, we can be the change we wish to see in the world. Embrace the spirit of giving with Baitulmaal. Together, we can break the cycle of poverty, offer a lifeline in times of crisis, and build pathways to a brighter future for those in need. Visit our website to learn more about our projects, impact, and how you can make a difference. Your support is not just a donation; it's a beacon of hope for a better tomorrow.

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The Day of ‘Arafah is also called the Day of the Standing. It is significant because it is one the holiest days of the Islamic year. Fasting on this day atones for all sins of the preceding and coming year. #DayOfArafah

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The Day of ‘Arafah is also called the Day of the Standing. It is significant because it is one the holiest days of the Islamic year. Fasting on this day atones for all sins of the preceding and coming year. #DayOfArafah

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Is Zakat Foundation of America Legit?

Assalamualaikum, My brother and sister’s charity or Zakat, is one of the crucial pillars of Islam, so before donating to any Zakat foundation is very important to know whether it is legit or not. As we have told you about many Islamic Zakat foundations today, we brought up a very important topic Zakat foundation of America is legit. If you are thinking of donating to the Zakat Foundation of…

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Turkey earthquake relief effort personal for global aid exec in Chicago#Turkey #earthquake #relief #effort #personal #global #aid #exec #Chicago

Amina Demir is no stranger to helping people displaced because of natural or political disasters. As the chief operating officer of the Zakat Foundation of America, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that provides aid around the globe, Demir, who is Turkish Kurdish American, has more than 10 years of experience helping refugees, including those in Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan. But when she found out…

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Investigation Exposes Terror Ties Behind Islamic Charity's Humanitarian Facade

Image from Zakat Foundation YouTube video.

by Abha Shankar and Martha Lee

A prominent American Islamist charity is publicizing its role in the nationwide coronavirus emergency response effort.

"Zakat Foundation of America stepped up its nationwide coronavirus emergency response ... delivering thousands of direly needed medical-grade gloves to two far South Side Safety-Net hospitals in Chicago," said the Illinois-based Islamist charity in a March 27 press release.

"We're all in as a frontline charitable provider helping people survive COVID-19, on every level — financially, medically, nutritionally, mentally and spiritually," executive director Halil Demir said in the release. (Demir also spells his first name "Khalil.")

Since its 2001 founding, the Zakat Foundation claims to "have empowered millions of people to recover from disasters and escape poverty by taking control of their own lives." A timeline on the charity's website showcases its humanitarian accomplishments over the years, from providing aid to Iraq war victims to establishing a university for refugees in Turkey.

But behind the Zakat Foundation's outward humanitarian façade lie longstanding terror ties that include support for Hamas- and al-Qaida-tied charities, a joint investigation by the Investigative Project of Terrorism and the Middle East Forum finds.

The misuse of Islamist charitable organizations to support terror is not new. American Islamist charities have been known to use humanitarian assistance as a cover to solicit funds for terrorist groups.

"While some terrorist supporters create sham charities as a cover to raise and move funds, other terrorist groups and their supporters use charities to provide funds or otherwise dispense critical social or humanitarian services to vulnerable populations in an effort to radicalize communities and build local support," says the Treasury Department's 2015 National Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment.

Soon after the 9/11 attacks, several American Islamist charities were either designated terrorist financiers by Treasury or raided by federal authorities on suspicion of funding terror. A prime example is the prosecution of the Texas charity Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and its senior leaders in what is described as the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history. In 2008, a jury convicted HLF and five former leaders for illegally routing more than $12 million to Hamas.

One of Demir's previous employers also attracted scrutiny from the federal government.

Before founding Zakat Foundation in 2001, Demir worked for the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF). A business card identified him as "Public Relations Officer," and an IRS tax filing from 2000 states that, "The books are in care of Halil I. Demir."

The Treasury Department designated BIF and related entities as terror financiers in 2002. The Illinois-based BIF and its director, Enaam Arnaout, were charged the same year with misusing charitable contributions to support al-Qaida and other terrorist groups overseas. Later, Arnaout confessed to using his charity to support Mujahideen fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya.

Arnaout served "as an administrator" for Osama bin Laden, a United Nations Security Council report said, "at times disbursing funds on his behalf." He admitted that BIF solicited money for humanitarian needs, "including refugees and orphans," concealing the fact that it "was being used to support fighters" in Chechnya with uniforms, boots, tents and other supplies.

In addition to serving BIF, Demir also has worked with the terror-tied Turkish Humanitarian Relief Organization (IHH). A 2010 news release on the Turkish charity's relief efforts in earthquake-hit Haiti describes Demir as an "IHH aid coordinator." The same year, IHH also referred to the Zakat Foundation as a "partner institution."

IHH has helped fund the Hamas military wing, which used the money to buy weapons and build training facilities, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Relations said. IHH has been designated a terrorist organization by Israel, Germany and the Netherlands. IHH was a key player in the 2010 Free Gaza Movement flotilla that sought to break a blockade on Gaza. Ten people were killed when one of the boats refused to turn back and passengers attacked Israeli commandos as they tried to board.

Reports from that time allege that IHH distributed aid to the Salafist group Ahrar al Sham, which fought alongside ISIS and the al-Qaida affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra. Turkish authorities additionally found evidence that IHH not only recruits militants for al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, but also provides terrorist groups access to arms and medical treatment.

According to a 2009 IHH report, "The US-based Zakat Foundation and Helping Hand, with which the IHH co-organizes social projects in different regions, sent $80,000 and $30,000 respectively to Gaza through the IHH."

Helping Hand is the overseas charitable arm of the Islamic Circle of North America, which has been described as "openly affiliated" with the Sunni revivalist movement Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). The charity has partnered with people closely tied to the U.S.-designated Kashmiri terrorist organization, Hizbul Mujahideen and its leader Syed Salahuddin. Zakat Foundation also partners with the Al-Khidmat Foundation, JI Pakistan's charitable arm.

Despite these documented connections, often promoted by the charities involved, Demir denies his and his organization's terror ties. He blames terror financing crackdowns targeting American Muslim charities after the 9/11 attacks on "Islamophobia."

"The Islamophobia was so strong, emotions ran so high against the Muslim community that whenever we tried to do good work, some people and organizations tried to portray us as bad guys," Demir says in an advertisement for his book, 9 Myths About Muslim Charities: Stories from the Zakat Foundation of America.

Demir made similar accusations in a January interview with the Daily Southtown. "This is propaganda, Islamophobia of white supremacists and hate groups that spread poison against the Muslim community and charities that do great work," he said.

Demir's book bashes national and international agencies for demanding transparency and oversight of Muslim charities. For instance, he calls the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) global terror finance watchdog "the most powerful and pernicious entity in the world," and asserts that "FATF's recommendations, and counterterrorism financing in general, constitute a complex ineffective sham."

The book also criticizes a 1996 CIA "Report on NGOs with Terror Links": "This two-decade-old CIA-write-up's simple-minded, unvetted, erroneous presumption of a 'regular correlation between Muslim humanitarian organizations and terrorist activity' – which shows nothing more than chauvinism—still underpins global policy of transgressing the civil rights of American Muslim charities."

Terrorists are known to use "charities to provide funds or otherwise dispense critical social or humanitarian services to vulnerable populations in an effort to radicalize communities and build local support," the 2015 National Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment said.

Hamas' dramatic 2006 election victory was fueled in part by its social welfare networks that received funding from American Islamist charities. In fact, the Holy Land Foundation was part of a network called the "Palestine Committee" that the Muslim Brotherhood created to advance Hamas's agenda politically and financially in the United States.

The Zakat Foundation has also generously supported the Islamic Charitable Society (ICS) in Hebron. In 2003, Zakat Foundation "worked in coordination with the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron to supply $10,000" worth of school supplies to Palestinian children. This is not the first time that the ICS has received funding from U.S.-based charities. HLF gave ICS more than $1.6 million between 1991 and 2001. In 2002, German intelligence services described ICS as "the most important HAMAS association in the West Bank" and concluded that its leadership included "numerous" Hamas members.

The Zakat Foundation's work with ICS and association with Hamas continues. It announced in 2017 that it had "taken on costs for 200 students" of the ICS's Al Rahma School. Dina Karmi, an Arabic teacher at Al Rahma, is the widow of Nashaat al-Karmi, Hamas's southern West Bank armed wing leader. Israeli anti-terror police shot and killed him in 2010 in a raid connected with the murder of four Israelis.

In 2018, Israel's Shin Bet arrested Dina Karmi for "serving as the 'operational arm'" of a ring that "operated in coordination with both Hamas headquarters abroad and in the Gaza Strip."

A year earlier, ICS officials expressed their "deepest of thanks to Zakat Foundation" for its support, and "especially" its executive director Khalil Demir.

Zakat Foundation lists a U.S.-based Islamist charity called Baitulmaal as a partner. The Israeli government in 2006 accused Baitulmaal co-founder Sheikh Hasan Hajmohammad of funding a Hamas charity.

However, instead of calling for more intensive oversight of an Islamist charity with established terror ties, U.S. government officials continue to engage with the Zakat Foundation. In 2017, the charity co-sponsored an Iftar dinner with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's office. Last year, Halil Demir was invited to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 100th Day Recognition.

Today, as the nation ramps up its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the Chicago mayor's office "now keeps contact with Zakat Foundation and has welcomed its creative capacity and stalwart efforts, as do an ensemble of social service agencies, not only in Chicago, but in key metro areas across the nation."

For decades, Islamist charities have hidden their terror funding and support under a charitable guise, sometimes winning acclaim and support from federal government officials and others for their efforts. The terror-tied Zakat Foundation's response to the coronavirus pandemic, is the kind of thing that might provide a public benefit, but it also serves as a building block toward legitimacy, opening doors at City Hall and elsewhere.

It also helps the organization further obscure its work with charities tied to Hamas and al-Qaida.

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Supporting Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

The number of Muslim Rohingya seeking survival on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border has now exceeded half a million. Their living conditions are devastating.  With barely any food, sanitation facilities, or protection from inclement weather, they are at a very high risk of outbreak of disease. Zakat Foundation of America (ZF) is on the grounds working day and night to bring relief to this most oppressed segment of our human family. With your support, we have provided food packages, medical treatment, mosquito nets, blankets, cooking equipment, tarps for temporary shelter, and more. You, and their Lord, are their only hope for survival. We need your help to continue this lifeline. Please watch this latest update from the field, then visit us at Zakat.org to make a generous donation. DONATE NOW Read the full article

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 What is the benefit of reading Surah Kahf on Friday?

In a narration from the Prophet Muhammad pbuh it is stated that the one who reads Surah Al-Kahf on Fridays will

find his entire week enlightened until the next Friday

(al-Jaami).

What is Surah Al-Kahf in English?

Surah Al-Kahf (in Arabic text: الكهف‎) is the 18th chapter of the Qur'an. The surah titled in English means “The Cave” and it consists of 110 verses... Inspirational Quote: “Wealth and children are [but] adornment of the worldly life.

Why is Surah Kahf important?

It's a very beautiful surah revealed on the Holy Prophet in Makkah. It comprises four main stories that show the power of belief. It also discusses multiple important elements of worship and faith in one God in every condition. Moreover, explain some lessons of wisdom between the two prophets of Allah

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All Gone, Dust. Oh, The Sorrow

As-Salamu Alaikum When I was browsing through my previous articles I wrote for The Zakat Foundation Of America, I came across one I wrote for Ghaza. Reading it now made me feel like I was on some sort of bizarre science fiction tale. How? This happened in the space of a few weeks, and now there is nothing where there used to be a life. And we watch. And our leaders turn into a bunch back…