A Muslims Joins the Fight Against AIDS in Hawai'i

As-salaamu aleykum,

The Paradise Ride - a fundraising event of the Life Foundation, Malama Pono Kauai
AIDS Project and Maui AIDS Foundation - begins on July 17, 2004. These three agencies provide AIDS/HIV treatment, education and prevention services in Hawai'i and their clients include men, women and children.

The deadline is fast approaching!

I have been working as a bicycle messenger and this has given me good
training for the Paradise Ride, inshallah.

Believe it or not, there are Muslims with AIDS/HIV. I know that some live on the
Mainland USA or Canada, since I have been in contact with some of them.

I do not know if there are Muslims in Hawai'i living with AIDS/HIV, as such information
is kept confidential by their treatment providers. I do know that if there are any
Muslims with AIDS/HIV, I would want them to have help available.

People may wonder why a Muslim would want to help people with AIDS/HIV. After all,
aren't most people with that disease homosexuals or IV drug users?

In the USA, that is the case. But the number of people living with this disease 
also includes children born to infected mothers, doctors and other health care workers
infected due to accidents in laboratories or hospitals, wives infected by unfaithful
and/or drug abusing husbands, police officers infected while subdueing an infected
criminal suspect, etc.

In other words: innocent people who have done nothing wrong, yet found themselves
infected with AIDS/HIV, a disease with no cure and only the promise of any early
death.

After 9/11, Muslims lined-up around the United States to donate blood for the victims
of those attacks. Now, we can show them how Muslims can stand-up to be counted in
the war against this plague that currently is devastating Africa, and is making 
its impact felt in India, China and Indonesia.

If you would like to make a donation, visit my website
http://www.geocities.com/rider1219/

May ALLAH (swt) reward you many times over for any donation you can make on my behalf.


As-salaamu aleykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh,

`Isa Abdul-Tawwab
(Duane Browning)
Paradise Rider #1219


As-Salaamu Aleykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh,

`Isa Abdul-Tawwab Al-Hawai'i
(Duane Browning)
Paradise Rider #1219
http://paradiseride.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=34543&u=34543-17168705&e=76075943