Brother,
Your point is well noted.
Our center has been around for over twenty years helping many people including Gambians with
Zakat to meet their rent, and to help with funeral expenses for those who cannot afford it
(it can be very expensive around the US fyi-) and pay the tuition of students whose parents
cannot afford it ecetera ecetera etc.
If Jammeh comes he is welcome like any other worshipper including you and I .His money or
Gambian money is not the issue .
We have been doing Fund raising for twenty five years to help with the upkeep of the center.
I hope you understand that we do not take sides . We are performing a service that is much
needed in our community and if anyone can help make that possible , we welcome them.
By the way I am happy to say We had some volunteers to help cook the food for tomorrow and
almost all of the meat & ingredients were donated. Alhamdullilah.
May Allah reward them for their help no matter how little it may be.
The Muslim community thanks all contributors who make it possible to help others.
Recently we had a sister Rohey Jobe who was helped by ACIE and the venue was MCC . I am proud
to say ACIE handed her mom a cheque of almost $17,000.00 collected from the community. FYI
If Jammeh comes and donates any money (IF he comes ) it will be used in the community which
has a lot of Gambians as all other donor's moneys are spent too.
Wasalaam
Habib
saiks samateh wrote:
> Hi Brother
>
> I do see your point very clearly.This invitation is clearly out to save the
> dirty face of the AFPRC government.The money that Dr Jammeh is expected to
> donate to the organization is the money of Gambian tax payers ,Jammeh should
> be told to return that money back to the Gambian people and not been encourage
> to travel abroad and dishing it out.Just yesterday a Gambian suffering from
> some form of cancer is desperately appealing to all of us to save his life
> because he could not be threated in the Gambia,where are all the hospitals
> that are said to have been built in the Gambia,is it not a duty upon us,as
> good Gambians,good Muslims or Christians to call the attention of the
> president to such situation than calling upon him to come and dish out some
> money in the name of ALLAH ?Is this organisation more interested in the money
> of Jammeh or do they want to tell him who they are ?An organisation who
> encourage the head of a corrupt government to dish out money to them will
> surely be doing a bad PR work for their organisation.
>
> For Freedom
> Saiks
>
> After the successful over throw of the Jawara gov't on July 22 1994,
> most Gambians were happy that the change they had long awaited has finally
> arrived. Jammeh, Sabally, Hydara, Touray and Singateh promised the people
> of a transparent and accountable government. A government whose intent was
> to discontinue the corrupt behaviors of its predecessor. A goverment
> committed to national unity and economic development.
> Exactly five years and two months after that fateful Friday in July of
> 1994, the nation is not any better than it was. In five years Jammeh has
> hired and fired more officials than Jawara had in 30 years. Families have
> been victimized, their assets frozen and their properties seized. Jammeh and
> his loyal subjects have tortured and killed many Gambians. For example, the
> sudden and untimely deaths of Sadibou Hydara and Ousman Koro Ceesay. Jammeh
> was fully aware of the circumstances surronding the deaths of those two
> gambians. The entire nation knew Edward and Peter Singateh were involved.
> Jammeh however never made any remarks or taken any action . Remember he is
> the very one who who said his gov't would be transparent.
> In five years, Jammeh, Touray and Singateh amassed millions of dalasis
> of loans and grants contracted in the name of the Gambia only to be diverted
> to personal accounts in Swiss, Turkey and other foreign banks. I could go on
> and on-----
> Organizing a dinner to honor a dictator, a tyrant, a murderer, and a
> heartless leader is beyond my comprehension. The organizer(s) are in short
> encouraging Jammeh and his gang, the July 22 Movement and the NIA, to
> continue on the gross human rights violations prevalent in the Gambia.
> With all due respect I urge the organizers to rescind the offer.
>
> Ajarama
>
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