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The Muslim-American community has raised more than $50,000 for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left at least 11 people dead and six injured.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Muslims Unite for Pittsburgh Synagogue\u2019 campaign, hosted by the Muslim crowdfunding site LaunchGood<\/a>, aimed to raise funds to support the shooting victims with funeral expenses and medical bills.<\/p>\n READ MORE: \u2018Trump controlled by Jews\u2019 & other anti-Semitic conspiracies of synagogue shooter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The original goal was to raise $25,000 for the victims and their families, but was increased to $50,000 after just six hours of overwhelming support. That goal was surpassed on Sunday, just one day after it began.<\/p>\n The campaign was launched by Tarek El-Messidi, a Muslim-American speaker and founder of a non-profit organization called CelebrateMercy, which\u00a0\u201cteaches about the Prophet Muhammad\u2019s\u00a0life and character to Muslims and the general public.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n READ MORE: \u2018All these Jews need to die\u2019: Pittsburgh shooter used AR-15 & handguns in synagogue massacre<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n On Sunday, US authorities released the names of the 11 victims<\/a> killed by suspected gunman Robert Bowers, including a husband and wife couple, and two brothers. The victims range in age from 54 to 97. Six other people, including four police officers, were injured during the October 27 incident.<\/p>\n Bowers, who is being treated for gunshot wounds at hospital, faces 29 counts of federal charges over the murder of the worshippers, including hate crimes and illegal use of firearms.<\/p>\n Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Muslim-American community has raised more than $50,000 for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left at least 11 people dead and six injured. The \u2018Muslims Unite for Pittsburgh Synagogue\u2019 campaign, hosted by the Muslim crowdfunding site LaunchGood, aimed to raise funds to support the shooting victims with funeral expenses and medical bills. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}