Hurricane relief and the monotheistic faiths

Here’s something interesting. I went to yahoo.com and google.com and entered “Christian and charity and Katrina” in the search engine and came up with a number of websites that had information about Christian charities and how to help the hurricane victims. I did the same thing again, but this time switched “Christian” to “Jewish.” Again, a number of websites about Jewish charities assisting the hurricane victims. Then—you guessed it—I typed in Islamic, and even Muslim, and what did I get? A few articles about Islamic charities that were used as fronts to fund terrorist groups, and not much else. I didn’t see any websites about Islamic humanitarian organizations collecting money for Katrina victims.

This is not to say that there are no Muslim groups helping the hurricane victims; it only shows that my cursory search failed to locate them. Nor am I arguing that individual Muslims have not donated any money to help; I’m sure many have. I am not sure if my unscientific experiment proves anything. But I did learn one valuable lesson: If you do give money to an Islamic charity to help hurricane victims, make absolutely sure that your donation does not go to buy explosives for Hamas or Islamic Jihad.

Update:
I recalibrated my search slightly and found this group: http://www.masnet.org/ They seem to be doing the right thing.