Muslims and Muslim organizations have raised more than $84,000 for the victims of a deadly rampage being investigated by the FBI as a terrorist attack.
The crowdfunding campaign was launched by a network of local, regional and national Muslim organizations last Thursday on LaunchGood.com, under the name "
Muslims United For San Bernardino Families."
"We wish to respond to evil with good, as our faith instructs us, and send a powerful message of compassion through action," a statement on the website reads. "And the Quran teaches to 'Repel evil by that which is better.'"
It also asks Muslim-American imams, mosques and other leaders to endorse and promote the project.
The Los Angeles Daily News reports Dr. Faisal Qazi, a neurologist from Fullerton, Calif., started the initiative with the goal of raising $100,000 to cover expenses like funeral costs, medical treatments, rent and mortgage payments for the victims and families of last Wednesday's massacre at the Inland Regional Center.
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the husband and wife who gunned down 14 people, were later killed in a shootout with police. The massacre is being investigated by the FBI as an
"act of terrorism."
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