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Muslim charities negotiate a minefield
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The Arab American News
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September 6, 2008
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NEW YORK (IPS) - As Muslims begin one of their most important holidays the month of Ramadan - charitable organizations serving the American Muslim community are taking what some observers believe is a desperate last step to keep the U.S. government from shutting them down.
Muslim Advocates (MA), a San Francisco-based national educational and advocacy organization established by a 500-plus network of American Muslim lawyers, is teaming with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Wise Giving Alliance to launch a new initiative to improve the fiscal management and administration of American Muslim charitable organizations.
Akil Vohra, an MA staff attorney, told IPS that sponsors of the program hope ...
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