DUers, do we have any ideas about how we can reach out to these victims of a hate crime?

[Hekate]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4114635&mesg_id=4114635

This is about the little Muslim kids who were literally gassed (with Mace? no one knows yet) while their parents were at prayer for Ramadan. In Dayton, Ohio for the love of God, after that evil DVD "Obsession" was mailed free to everyone.

We are expressing a lot of justified anger and grief over this, but I'd like to see some ideas here about how we can reach out to the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton. Cards? Letters? Roses?

And how do we reach them? Should we write care of the newspaper that broke the story?

Hekate

[liberalmuse]

1. Here is a good link...

scroll down for the address, phone number and email of the Dayton Islamic Society:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/28/212239/414/486/613784

[Andre II]

2. Here's their mail

http://www.downeastpolitics.com/content/blogs/sarekofvulcan/2008/09/a-letter-i-just-sent-to-the-islamic-society-of-greater-dayton

[Cid_B]

3. I asked before...

... but did not get an answer. Have they caught the nasty folks that did this? If not, is it just the timing that links the dvd to the crime? Just trying to get it straight.

[Hekate]

4. If that info is available at all, it would be in the Dayton newspaper. Try there. nt

[Hekate]

5. kick

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. You want to help the kids?

Challenge Islamophobia every time and every where you see it.

[Hekate]

7. I do, just as I challenge the reflexive hatred of Christians when I see it here. It ain't right.

I'm not a member of one of the Abrahamic religions myself (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) but I am related by blood, marriage, and friendship to all of them. The Holocaust was an abomination and the central stain on the 20th Century -- but the victims don't have to be Jews. Define any group as The Other, and set the propaganda machine in motion. This is what I see happening now in this country.

Hekate