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Posted in Q & A on Jan 11, 2007

Posted January 11, 2007

Never again?

Dear Friends and Foes: Mehdi Rafai is a young Muslim who has written to me on many occasions.  We don’t agree on every issue but we respect each other’s passion, faith and humanitarianism.

Mehdi’s latest message to me tackles Muslim complacency about the genocide in Darfur. He’s asked me to post a petition calling on more Muslims to speak up. How refreshing.

I’ve personally signed the petition and ask you to do the same. You don’t have to be Muslim to endorse and circulate this.  You just have to care.

God bless you, Mehdi.

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PREAMBLE BY MEHDI RAFAI:

On December 21, 2006, TVO’s Steven Paikin interviewed Michael Petrou, senior writer at Maclean’s magazine and author of “Genocide in Slow Motion” on the conflict in Darfur and how it is spreading to Chad. Paikin asked, since the conflict is between Arab Muslims and African Muslims, what, if any, assistance had come from the Muslim world to help the situation in Darfur?

Petrou answered that although help was minimal from anywhere, the West was feeding the refugees, while the only help offered by Muslims was a huge, multi-story mosque paid for by Saudi Arabia in the middle of the poverty-stricken capital of Chad, Anjamina.

In response to this, I have written a petition asking that Muslim countries do more to help with Muslim-against-Muslim conflicts. Muslims seem quick to protest foreign injustices, perceived or real, but when our fellow Muslims are fighting amongst each other, we say nothing. I want to help change that.  Will you join me and Irshad in supporting the petition below?

PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK:
http://www.petitiononline.com/msaimva2/petition.html

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