Gives me hope: Muslims serve Christmas Eve dinner to 300 at Old Brewery Mission
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[url=http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Muslims+serve+Christmas+dinner+Brewery+Mission/4026100/story.html]Source (somewhat late, but still relevant)[/url]
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Sadaf Kotwal of the Islamic Community Centre of Brossard helps serve dinner at the Old Brewery Mission on Christmas Eve.[/quote]
It was in a spirit of giving that members of a South Shore mosque contributed $2,000 to sponsor the Christmas Eve supper at the Old Brewery Mission and spent two hours serving it to more than 300 people.
This is double the minimum $1,000 contribution the mission seeks from those who sponsor a supper.
It was believed to be the first time an Islamic community group has volunteered to sponsor and serve an evening meal at the mission, officials said.
Following afternoon prayers at the mission on Clark St., about 20 members of the Islamic Community Centre of Brossard set the tables and passed plates of chicken, rice and steamed carrots to the first shift of diners.
Ismail Mohammed of Greenfield Park, a retired CBC accountant, said he had suggested sponsoring the meal to fellow mosque members.
"We don't celebrate Christmas, but serving humanity is serving God. That is what our teaching says," he observed.
"We want to work with people from all religions," he added. "We came for peace in this country and we want to establish peace," said Mohammed, a native of India who grew up in Pakistan.
Monique Khan of Brossard said serving others is the perfect holiday activity: "I feel happy when I make other people happy. It's a time for sharing and we give what we can"
Her husband, Irfan Khan, a building technician, said feeding the needy is about immigrants contributing to their country.
"When we came here, we didn't have anything. We worked hard and we did well. This society has given us so much, and now we have to give back."
Said Suleman, who came to Canada as a refugee from Eritrea, said many fellow Muslims are successful and highly educated and "it's time to step in and do our share."
"We have to think of others, of feeding our neighbours, to really participate."
Sabiha Sheikh of Brossard, a part-time bookkeeper, said she often helps serve food to people in other mission-type settings.
"It's time for us to contribute to the city we live in. We want to show that we are caring people -we are generous and want to share."[/release]
That's so nice of them :unsmith:
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That's nice :unsmith:
Nice to see postive news about Muslims for once.
[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;27024714]That's nice :unsmith:
Nice to see postive news about Muslims for once.[/QUOTE]
Absolutely!
The way I see it, only a pessimist (and an idiot) would think _All_ muslims are just like the ones we usually read in the news.
Christmass isn't a christian holyday, official it was a celebration to the day that day's lasted longer (more sun on a day) for a early european civilzation.
So i don't see why any other religion can celebrate it since christians adopted it.
The Islam actually teaches to help people around you, it's just the extremists that ruin it to everyone.
[QUOTE=ToXiCsoldier;27025088]Christmass isn't a christian holyday, official it was a celebration to the day that day's lasted longer (more sun on a day) for a early european civilzation.
So i don't see why any other religion can celebrate it since christians adopted it.[/QUOTE]
A lot of non-extremist muslims still find it a sin to actually celebrate Christmas
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;27025034]Absolutely!
The way I see it, only a pessimist (and an idiot) would think _All_ muslims are just like the ones we usually read in the news.[/QUOTE]
To be honest I'd say it would be exclusive to the idiots. Heart warming news indeed, there may be hope yet.
Reminds me when we had this little fair when I went to a Catholic Elementary School. We had a Islamic Academy, a few public schools, a bunch of kids from a Jewish Temple, and Buddhist adults from some group. Learned a lot that day, was cool as shit.
For a media age that seems obsessed with only portraying the extremists of Islam, this is a breath of fresh air.
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I really like this picture.
I think I'm going to make it an avatar.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;27027297]I really like this picture.
I think I'm going to make it an avatar.[/QUOTE]
Try this one then.
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These damn things are everywhere in my town, oh well can't complain of a very positive and weed loving community. :v:
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;27027465]Try this one then.
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These damn things are everywhere in my town, oh well can't complain of a very positive and weed loving community. :v:[/QUOTE]
Damn hippies
Christians got served.
:colbert:
[QUOTE=Virtanen;27027669]Christians got served.
:colbert:[/QUOTE]
Well played, sir. Very good. :golfclap:
[QUOTE=Virtanen;27027669]Christians got served.
:colbert:[/QUOTE]
And muslims were the ones to dish it out
[QUOTE=alt;27025932]A lot of non-extremist muslims still find it a sin to actually celebrate Christmas[/QUOTE]
Those would be the fundamentalists and the "New-Age" Muslims. I forget the real term, but there's been a serious influx of Muslims who believe in this archaic idea of Islamic Supremacy and strict religious rules that pretty much go against the true teachings and ideas of the Qu'ran.
[b][u]FUCK[/u][/b] they make me so damned mad.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;27027465]Try this one then.
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These damn things are everywhere in my town, oh well can't complain of a very positive and weed loving community. :v:[/QUOTE]
I have one as a bumper sticker on my car. :3:
[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;27024714]
Nice to see postive news about Muslims for once.[/QUOTE]
You know what they say, the dumbest are the loudest. You read news about the extremists, whom make up a small portion of the Muslim community. More like: it's nice to read news about 'moderate' Muslims.
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