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| Anyone in the path of Katrina? |
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| jannah |
| 08/31/05 at 01:51:57 |
| I can't believe the devastation... I hope everyone is safe inshaallah. There was one brother who posted his experience of moving to New Orleans in the travel forum making it sound so interesting.. now it is all under water!! I feel so sorry for all the people who will be LIVING in the superdome... this year seems to have been one of so many targedies... ================================================================ ISNA URGES MUSLIM AMERICANS TO PROVIDE AID TO THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA Tuesday, August, 30, 2005 PLAINFIELD, IN – The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a preeminent international Islamic organization urges Muslim Americans to assist the victims of the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina. “Muslim Americans must come forward and assist their fellow Americans in this time of need,” stated Dr Sayyid M. Syeed, Secretary General of the ISNA. Katrina is one of the worst storms in the southern United States and has affected thousands of people in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Katrina has thus far destroyed everything in its path, slamming into the Gulf Coast just outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, on Monday, submerging entire neighborhoods up to their roofs, and blowing out window&rsq! uo; in hospitals, hotels and high rise buildings. ISNA urges Muslim Americans to donate generously to humanitarian organizations that are working to meet the needs of the affected people. ISNA also urges Muslim Americans to volunteer in any capacity to help bring relief and comfort to the victims of this disaster. “It is time to step up and donate, volunteer and pray for those that are affected by this disaster,” stated Syeed. ISNA will be hosting the 42nd Annual ISNA Convention at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Illinois from September 2-5, 2005. Over 40,000 Muslim Americans are expected to participate in the annual event. This year's Convention theme is Muslims in North America: Accomplishments, Challenges, and the Road Ahead. The participants of this years Convention will be praying for those that have been affected by Hurricane Katrina. “We are going to pray that God provides mercy to those that have passed away, comfort to those that have lost someone and aid to those that are affected,” stated Syeed. |
| Re: Anyone in the path of Katrina? |
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| jannah |
| 09/01/05 at 15:24:21 |
| Katrina May Have Killed Thousands, Victims in Urgent Need of Relief The mayor of New Orleans said Wednesday that Katrina may have killed thousands of people in the city — an estimate that, if accurate, would make the storm by far the nation's deadliest hurricane in more than a century. Islamic Relief USA has initiated an appeal to help the victims of the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina. Islamic Relief is in the process of coordinating with organizations working on the ground to effectively and efficiently aid the victims as swiftly as possible. Islamic Relief will be focusing its efforts on helping victims in Baton Rouge, LA (where many victims from New Orleans have fled), Mobile, AL, and Houston, TX. In addition to the devastation in New Orleans, hundreds are also feared dead in Mississippi. People in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida have also been affected. Many areas in all affected regions have been completely destroyed, and the temporary shelters which have been set up cannot cope with the continuing influx of refugees. The victims of Hurricane Katrina are in urgent need of your help. Please act now to assist with the emergency relief efforts. Islamic Relief USA 1919 W Magnolia Blvd Burbank, CA 91506 (888) 479-4968 http://www.irw.org/ info@irw.org Tax ID#: 95-4453134 |
| Re: Anyone in the path of Katrina? |
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| lala |
| 09/01/05 at 21:07:32 |
| [slm] Its crazy people. A temp at our job (he's been temping here for a while now actually:)) ...but he's from New Orleans and his mom, 1 brother, father made it out to other states, cities but he has lost touch with another of his brothers, his grandparents, a nice some cousins who were all in New Orleans. MOney is running out for the family that he knows are okay and have taken up shelter elsewhere...Imagine the outcomes of those that are missing....Only ALlah knows right now...This is one of many devastatingly sad stories out there. PLus if you watch the news or read it at all, you will see that there is utter chaos there. WOnder why they dont drop food into that dome or ship in some medics with cots, blankets and FOOD, medicine....whats that all about??? IF you cant remove them all at once, cant you at least provide for them.....I"m speaking of our government... INshaALlah, I hope we are all contributing however we can to this problem. Whether it be money to the right organizations, canned goods, clothing drives whichever.... As always we should want for our neighbor what we want for ourselves. ... .. As Muslims it is our duty to help. Much love and peace to you all salaam |
| Re: Anyone in the path of Katrina? |
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| jannah |
| 09/02/05 at 19:08:03 |
| From a yahoo slideshow AP: Bisher Kaddoura, right, of North Bergen, N.J., holds a box to collect donations for Hurricane Katrina victims as Muslims leave the Islamic Center of Passaic County after prayers in Paterson, N.J., on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005. Donations are part of a nationwide call for U.S. Muslims to help hurricane victims. |
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| Re: Anyone in the path of Katrina? |
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| Kathy |
| 09/03/05 at 12:23:59 |
| [slm] I am just in tears and angry... In America? No food or water or toilets for 5 days! May Allah swt deal with the powers that be. And what is wrong with Walmart and other stores, having armed guards protecting their food. Reminds me of the story of Prophets Yusuf & Musa when they said screw the pharohs and opened the grains. People are starving and dying! Here is a forwad e-mail i received: Reply-To: maillist@michaelmoore.com Subject: Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Dear Mr. Bush: Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag. Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with? Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her! I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike? And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ! On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that. There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland. No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this! You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit. Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com www.MichaelMoore.com P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st. |
| 09/03/05 at 12:25:58 |
| Kathy |
| Bush did it! |
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| abdullahcohn |
| 09/04/05 at 07:51:47 |
| Warnings went ignored as Bush slashed flood uploaded 04 Sep 2005 Defence budget to pay for wars Vital measures to protect New Orleans from "catastrophic" hurricane damage were scrapped by the Bush administration to pay for its wars on terror and in Iraq, despite official warnings of impending disaster. Funding for flood prevention was slashed by 80 per cent, work on strengthening levees to protect the city was stopped for the first time in 37 years, and planning for housing stranded citizens and evacuating refugees from the Superdome were crippled. Yet the administration had been warned repeatedly of the dangers by its own officials. In early 2001, at the start of Mr Bush's presidency, his Government's Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) warned that a hurricane hitting New Orleans would be the deadliest of the three most likely catastrophes facing America; the others were a massive San Francisco earthquake and, prophetically, a terrorist attack on New York. Fema's then director, the Bush appointee Joe Allbaugh, said that the warning caused him "great concern". But the President emasculated the agency, subsuming it into the Department of Homeland Security set up after the 11 September 2001 attacks, which concentrated on the terrorist threat. This was only one of a series of warnings that predicted what happened last week, including the storm surges brought by the hurricane, the breaching of the levees, the floods covering the city, and the "toxic gumbo" of sewage, oil and chemicals. Last year an emergency exercise run by the federal, Louisiana and New Orleans governments, featuring a fictional Hurricane Pam, almost exactly foretold the disaster now unfolding. But officials said plans to prepare for an actual catastrophe were abandoned because of cuts. Three years ago, another study concluded that a hurricane less intense than the one that has now hit New Orleans would flood most of the city; in 1998 a less severe one still, Georges, produced a 17ft wall of water. "No one can say they did not see it coming," reported the The Times-Picayune from New Orleans this week. The newspaper published a five-part series predicting the disaster five years ago. Officials and experts last week wearily recalled their attempts to make the government take action. "It's frustrating to have planned, begged and pleaded that this could happen," said Walter Maestri, emergency management director of the now submerged Jefferson Parish. "They would say, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' Well it's here now." Warnings stressed the inability of levees to resist a storm surge and the city's increasing vulnerability because of the destruction of natural defences. New Orleans is surrounded by 350 miles of levees - often flat, grass-covered embankments with parks and bicycle tracks - that were built soon after the city was founded in 1718. But tests have shown they are too low to withstand the water whipped up by even a category three hurricane, let alone a category four like Katrina. The levee at the 17th Street Canal, where the crucial breach took place, was particularly vulnerable, with part of it four feet lower than the rest. Every four miles of marsh shrinks the storm surge by a foot. But the city has become more defenceless as the wetlands that protected it against the sea vanished at a rate of 25 square miles a year - that's one football field every quarter of an hour. The oil and gas industry has caused much of this loss, as have the levees themselves by flushing silt out to sea that used to replenish the Mississippi Delta. While the surges have risen, the city has sunk two feet in the past 60 years. Natural and man-made defences have long been neglected. A 10-year plan to strengthen levees after a 1965 hurricane was never completed. But the skimping has worsened since President Bush's election, particularly after 11 September. Federal spending on flood control in south-east Louisiana has been cut by almost half since 2001, from $69m (£34.5m) per year to $36.5m. Funds for work at Lake Pontchartrain, the source of the flooding, have fallen by nearly two-thirds over three years, from $14.25m to $5.7m. As a result, work on New Orleans' east bank hurricane levees stopped last summer for the first time in 37 years. The US Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the levees, requested $27m this year for hurricane protection around the lake. President Bush tried to cut this to $3.9m, although Congress allowed $5.7m. The President also tried to cut $78m to improve drainage and prevent flooding in the city to $30m, though Congress passed $36.5m. A $14bn longer-term project to restore marshes was cut to $570m. Plans to provide shelter for victims and evacuate the Superdome, started after last year's Hurricane Pam exercise, were abandoned. Eric Tolbert, chief of disaster response at Fema until last February, said this was because funding dried up. "What you are seeing is revealing weaknesses in the state, local and federal levels," he said last week. "They have been weakened by diversion into terrorism." Mr Maestri, the Jefferson Parish emergency director, added: "It appears that money has been moved in the President's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq. I suppose that's the price we pay." Source: Independent |
| Re: Anyone in the path of Katrina? |
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| thezman |
| 09/05/05 at 04:46:11 |
| [slm] Watch this Video, it's show's the tragedy and utter isolation the people feel: "we have been abandoned by our country" http://informationclearinghouse.info/article10121.htm |
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| Siham |
| 09/05/05 at 12:35:04 |
| U.S. Muslims Pledge $10 Million for Hurricane Relief Major American Islamic groups form task force to coordinate humanitarian aid A coalition of major American Islamic groups meeting at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) in Chicago today announced a pledge to raise $10 million in humanitarian relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The coalition also announced the formation of a Muslim Hurricane Relief Task Force (MHRTF) to coordinate the aid effort. MHRTF members include (in alphabetical order) Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North American (ICNA), Islamic Relief, ISNA, Kind Hearts, Life for Relief and Development, Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), Muslim American Society (MAS), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and Muslim Ummah of North American (MUNA). Other groups who agree to the task force’s guidelines will be added as the relief efforts develop. MHRTF guidelines for collection and distribution of funds will focus on financial transparency and accountability as set forth in relevant government regulations and standards. No proselytizing of hurricane victims will be allowed by any member of the task force. "It is a national and Islamic obligation to assist one’s neighbors when they are in need," said ISNA Secretary General Sayyid Syeed. "The American Muslim community pledges to do its part in helping those Americans, of all faiths, who suffered such great losses in lives and property." Syeed said MHRTF will announce a comprehensive list of Muslim relief group that promise to adhere to the task force’s guidelines. The initial MHRTF action plan includes an assessment of the humanitarian needs that can be met by American Muslim financial and human resources, as well as a similar assessment of the Islamic community’s ability to meet those needs. More than $2 million in hurricane aid has already been disbursed by Islamic charities. Muslim relief workers are currently on the ground in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi. Other task force efforts will focus on evaluating the material and spiritual requirements of Gulf Coast Muslims. There are an estimated seven million Muslims in the United States. Source: http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://newsblaze.com/story/20050904171034nnnn.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Story.html |
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| jannah |
| 09/06/05 at 13:02:03 |
| slm, This is so ridiculous... Where the heck is the US government in this! The richest government in the world and they are letting people die on the streets!! astaghfirullah i'm so glad the Muslims at least are trying to help do what they can, but really these agencies are the one's that are supposed to have this responsibility. i pay 1/3 of my salary to taxes what the heck are they doing with it... sheesh |
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| Kathy |
| 09/09/05 at 08:47:49 |
| [slm] A cut and paste: From: Steve Goldstein <steve.goldstein@cox.net> Date: September 3, 2005 4:27:02 PM EDT Subject: Re: [IP] "United States of Shame" The more I think about our Commander-in-Chief's "performance" in Mississippi, the more resentful and angry I get. I am referring to the two very comely black women whom he hugged profusely and kissed on their heads (which appeared to have been freshly coiffed!) as they cried their tale of woe to him for all the nation to see and hear: "And, we don't have any clothes!" Try to tell me that these women were not carefully selected from crowds of the faithful and "cleaned up" to be both attractive and presentable to the Prez' as foils for his caring performance. I am not criticizing them at all; they were needy and deserving of all the help that they, and others, too, could receive. But, what riles me is that this, like any other public Presidential event appeared to be wholly staged. I mean, you didn't see our Prez' hugging a middle-aged morbidly obese person of either gender whose clothes stank from having to wade through flooded streets and whose hair was disheveled from days of perspiring with no showers, did you? ARGHHH! --Steve |
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| Siham |
| 09/14/05 at 09:22:23 |
| Assalamu' Alaikum, Some of you may have pets or love animals or both. I've been trying to find info in the papers about what's happening to the animals they are finding and have only seen one article so far, so I looked on the Internet. Here's the link to the Humane Society and ASPCA in case you want to read about the animal rescue too and/or donate to the Katrina animal relief efforts. Humane Society http://www.hsus.org/ American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer [wlm] |
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| Siham |
| 09/15/05 at 14:40:55 |
| [slm] RECEIVED THIS TODAY: NOT SURE IF THIS IS TRUE? We do need to keep this in mind. I myself have not heard anything about the prisoners from there. To My friends and Family from a friend: Be careful and get the word out to inform your friends & family coworkers etc..this issue has been overlooked due to the devastation. A friend that we know have a family restaurant. They had a lot of people from New Orleans come and buy food. They did not realize how many people were here already in Kansas City. On the way to work the friend was listening to the Radio and they were saying that a woman called in and said she saw her brother that had 2 life sentences for committing 7 murders, and now he is out on the street. (He was in prison in New Orleans).My friend Robert went down to Louisiana about 2 weeks ago to visit his brother who was in prison for stabbing his lawyer in the neck came by the restaurant to let us know that he made it back safe and he was not injured in the storm but, the problem was his brother was in the car with him as well. (The convicted murderer). If you're like me. I love New Orleans accents but please be careful, who you talk to at the clubs, in the stores, anywhere. Prisoners did escape, and these men have no ID, they are in a new city where no one knows them to identify them and so far they don't exist because so many people are missing, or dead. So pleasseeee be careful. This is affecting everybody... I know that there are murderers everywhere but please, please, please be careful and be mindful that there may be many more in our midst. Please just be aware of your surroundings and please pay close attention to your children. There is no way all of these felons will be located. I am afraid not only for my family and friends but for everyone. Please continue to pray for all people in all aspects because only GOD can help us. [wlm] |
| 09/15/05 at 15:02:35 |
| Siham |
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