What’s the game plan? It’s a question on many a Muslim’s mind now that Donald “Dip Bullets in Pig’s Blood” Trump prevailed. I’ve heard defiance and fear. However, here’s a new tack — that we Muslims lose our superiority complex.
I’m talking about the adult Muslims who sniffed when I came of age to donate blood. Muslim blood shouldn’t mix in the general blood supply, they lectured. Immoral consumers of alcohol might receive it.
They pursed their lips if I wanted to support UNICEF: Oh, so now Muslim money was going to feed hungry non-Muslim children?
How would we feel if Christians spoke like this?
Four University of Pennsylvania Muslims met in 2007 for a sisters’ study circle and wondered how to ensure their charity money only went to needy Muslims.
One of these girls posted on Facebook, following a terror attack, the well-known Quranic saying that “he who kills one person ... is as if he had killed all of humanity; and he who saves a life will be as if he saved the lives of all humanity.”
She echoed the Muslims plodding onto CNN to explain terror attacks are not in our name — Islam says whoever saves a life has saved all of humanity, they plead.
But some of these Muslims should add: This applies to neither my blood nor my money.
To our credit, many Muslims reject this. There’s the UNC Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Association which holds a blood drive yearly to honor 9/11 victims. Fun facts: Saudi Arabia bans Ahmadiyya Muslims; the U.S. sold at least $1.29 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia in 2015.
