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  • ‘Shame on you Biden’; Pro-Palestine protestors interrupt glamorous presidential fundraiser

    ‘Shame on you Biden’; Pro-Palestine protestors interrupt glamorous presidential fundraiser

    Pro-Palestine protesters interrupted President Joe Biden‘s conversation with his predecessors, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, at a glamorous fundraiser in New York for the Presidential re-election campaign.

    The disruption isn’t surprising, given that many of Biden’s events have seen protestors calling for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza. This time, according to a pool report, one of the protesters was yelling obscenities about a nuclear war with Russia. Other protesters interrupted over the situation in Gaza.
    Once the show began, Biden, Obama, and Clinton were each interrupted multiple times by Gaza protesters inside the hall, laying bare the unrest within the Democratic Party that hangs over the election.

    “Blood on your hands,” some yelled, at one point prompting Obama to snap back. “You can’t just talk and not listen. That’s what the other side does.”

    Video clips show pro-Palestinian demonstrators accosting people on the street in New York City after they attended the reelection fundraiser for US President Joe Biden.

    Biden exclaimed, “There are too many innocent victims, Israeli and Palestinian. We’ve got to get more food and medicine, supplies into the Palestinians. But we can’t forget, Israel is in a position where its very existence is at stake. You have to have all those people. They weren’t killed. They were massacred. They were massacred.” This enraged the protestors as they started calling out the President.

    “How dare you talk about the innocent deaths of Palestinians. Palestinians are dying right now because of your actions,” a protestor was seen yelling as he was taken into custody by the security.

    Another woman was seen shouting, “Shame on you Joe Biden”.

    A leading New York pro-Palestinian group, Within Our Lifetime, was among those organizing protests, billed as the “Flood Manhattan For Gaza” rally.
    The group issued a call to supporters ahead of the fundraiser, writing on X: “GENOCIDE JOE HAS GOT TO GO! Protesting genocide Joe, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton outside their democratic fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall!,” reports USA Today.

    In an interview with Al Jazeera, a protestor named Cheryl was seen saying, “I won’t be voting for Biden, for sure, I mean, even if he stopped the war right now, just for what the Palestinian people have suffered, I can’t”.

  • ‘In times of need,’ Maulana Tariq Jamil launches free ambulance service

    ‘In times of need,’ Maulana Tariq Jamil launches free ambulance service

    Maulana Tariq Jameel (MTJ) Foundation has launched a free ambulance service “in times of need for the needy.”

    Sharing pictures of MTJ visiting the newly bought ambulances on social media, the MTJ foundation wrote: “Molana Tariq Jamil visiting the newly bought ambulances by MTJ Foundation. We are thankful to all the contributors who enabled us buy the ambulances to provide the service in times of need to the needy.”

    Maulana had earlier launched his clothing brand. He clarified in a statement that the purpose of his business is to run madressahs so that they are not dependent on Zakat.

    However, according to a video message shared on his social media pages, he said that he established Madrasa tul Hasnain in the year 2000 where students can seek whole education in the Arabic language. It has now been expanded to 10 branches, it was not easy to manage financially.

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    Maulana further mentioned that some prosperous people took the accountability to run religious schools. In the year 2020, the coronavirus pandemic caused huge losses to the business and later turned worse for Madrasa tul Hasnain branches as the government had to shut down the operations due to lack of finances.

    Meanwhile, clarifying rumours, he said that he never wanted to make profit from of this business, adding that the whole idea was to provision the seminaries in the financial crisis. 

    He seemed to oppose the dilemma in the subcontinent as people criticise religious personalities for going for business although it is Sunnah. He termed doing business as Sunnah referring to Imam Abu Hanifa who was one of the notable cloth merchants of his time.