Muslims raise $55,000 to fix vandalised Jewish cemetery

[Sherman A1]

A crowdfunding project launched by Muslim activists has raised more than $55,000 in one day to repair a vandalised Jewish cemetery in St Louis.

On Tuesday, Linda Sarsour of the grassroots civil rights MPower Change group and Tarek El-Messidi of the non-profit CelebrateMercy organisation called on people to donate after more than 100 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in the St Louis suburb of University City were toppled.

By early Wednesday, at the time of publishing, $55,341 had been raised.

According to reports, police said they did not yet know who was responsible for the vandalism.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/muslims-raise-55000-fix-vandalised-jewish-cemetery-170222060559511.html

[irisblue]

1. there are the righteous among us, still

[florida08]

2. Good on them

[TNNurse]

3. People who are living their faith.

[Gothmog]

4. Muslims are good Americans-I appreciate their efforts here

[Maru Kitteh]

5. I love this story. Thanks for posting it. :-)