Charity is a God given right and performing a charitable act should not be prevented. It is everyone’s duty, even the poor and disabled. Charity doesn’t just include money; it can stretch to life giving, when saving others’ lives. It does not have religious or geographical barriers. Charity should feel as natural as the air we breathe. We could also measure human value looking at people’s charitable actions, how fellow men and women dedicate their lives to working for the community and humanity.
In this case, one question arises: why are Muslim charities always on the hot seat? Is it because they are genuinely bad? Or is it because some misguided individuals have cast a shadow on all trustworthy NGOs?
In 2005, I gave a speech at the Dead Sea World Economic Forum Meeting. I said it then and I repeat: we must ARM Muslim charities- Allow, Monitor and Regulate. By doing so, we will enable Muslim charities to plant the good TREE (Trust, Respect, Engage and Empower). If we PRESS (Prevent, Remove, Exclude, Scare and Seclude) or PREVENT (Prohibit, Remove, Exclude, Victimise, Expel, Nullify and Terrify) them, we will get a bad TREE (Terrorism, Radicalism, Extremism and Endanger).
You reap what you sow: we must ARM Muslim and non-Muslim charities in order to obtain the fruit that humanity desperately needs: Trust, Respect, Engage and Empower.
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