The Challenge of Ramadan and Charitable Giving

Can't we just give to those around us in need?

i agree with charitable giving - yet the Muslim charities which diverted funds to other than good causes put a mark on the good people who worked and gave for the betterment of mankind. I have agonized since 911 about the intent of all Muslims. I have known Muslim people and dealt with them in the business world, yet the fault I have now is that in my heart I always wonder what their true intent is.
I was in combat in the United States Army many years ago. I and my fellow veterans now support orphanages of those we once fought against. We do this partly as an attempt at atonement for the ones who were unintentionally hurt in that combat. I have always prayed for forgiveness for those innocents hurt in war.
I heard nothing from our local Muslim community after 911. I saw nothing they did to indicate they were sorry for those innocent people killed (many of them fellow Muslims)
This is a fault of mine - yet I can not shake it from my soul. If the world Muslim community were to rise and denounce terrorism, denounce violence in the name of God, I could sincerely forgive them. For now I can't. Tim Walker

William,

There is still no shred of independent evidence that Muslims were behind 9/11. There are even several nonmuslims who have independently researched the evidence and assert that this was a false flag operation designed to incriminate muslims least able to defend themselves against the accusations. According to the PNAC website we needed an excuse to go into Iraq, something like a new Pearl Harbor.

As a start, let us consider why NORAD, which had scrambled successfully for so many years whenever an airborne emergency happened had effectively stood down. The only explanation that takes into account that there were patriotic people manning the posts is that there were military/security exercises that took place simultaneously, exactly mimicking the events that unfolded in real life. This confused communications as people could not be sure whether a message was for real or just part of the simulation.

What are the chances of an exercise mimicking a real life event at the same time? Virtually zero. And there is evidence that even in the London bombings of 7/7, exactly the same thing happened, with real life and simulated exercises about the same exact thing occurring at the same time.

The mainstream media has been singularly uncritical about how the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been conducted, and even about the 9/11 investigations, preferring to take the government's side in each case.

While Muslims abhor violence, there is no reason that Muslims should accept the MSM and Government versions of the stories about 9/11, especially in the hindsight of new evidence coming out every day. We sure need to catch the culprits, but a self-serving, government-sponsored "independent" inquiry is not the answer.

From recent revelations of previously classified documents, we learn that the Joint Chiefs were willing to go to war based on fudged evidence such as Operation Northwoods, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and even the explosion that sank the USS Maine.

Why should muslims believe it was muslims who did this, when those who have planned such deceptive strategies - as openly revealed recently through the freedom of information act - have done this kind of thing going back a long ways? A precision attack on the best-protected nation in the world carried out by primitives in a cave in Afghanistan? How could one even imagine such a thing, when we know that our government is not afraid of having Americans killed, in order to pursue their agenda, and is the only country to use nuclear weapons in anger?

Sincerely,

Shiraz.

Zahed,

Please go to the following URLs and verify for yourself that most "Osama Bin Laden" videos and audios are fake, even those certified by the government as authentic.

Shiraz.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/binladen_audio.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape2.html

Karen,

As far as I and many Muslims are concerned, it would be perfectly fine to give to a secular as long as it was going to serve the needy.