Shocking to
many Fatimah Knight, one of the organisers, said she and her Muslim friends
felt the pain that members of the churches felt. She explained that the stories
of Muslims and blacks in America were connected.
This group of
Muslim friends have raised money to rebuild the eight churches that were burnt
in the wake of the shooting in Charleston, USA.
“We wanted to
show that as a Muslim community, their pain did not go unnoticed by us—that we
did, if fact, feel deeply for their loss,
“The Muslim
community and the Black community are connected in integral ways, one cannot
tell the story of one in America without telling the story of the other. We
hope that these churches might stand tall again as a testament to the power of
human goodness over human vileness and to one day be a place where God’s name
is oft-remembered.”
NBC News
reports that the group used a Muslim-run funding platform to raise $20,000,
which is about N4 million, in two and a half days. Knight said they hoped to
use “the notoriously generous Ramadan spirit that is infectious among Muslims
this time of year.”
On June 17 a
white gunman opened fire at a historic black church in downtown Charleston,
South Carolina, USA, killing nine people before fleeing.
Knight’s
family had earlier raised money through
a platform“From Muslims to Emmanuel AME Church, with love‘, after the
Charleston shooting.
Some of the
churches were burned in arson attacks, although others caught fire
accidentally, including being struck by lightning.
NBC News
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