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winter months were harsh, I hope you we can help the families !

As Salaamu Alaikum,

I voted for the Warm Winter Drive due to the large agencies are turning people away for the month of January here in Atlanta. You can run one or two of the non-monetary drives along with the Warm Winter Drive. Just a suggestion.

ma salaam

By the way-
If everyone votes for the Spanish Dawah–I will support that as well as well. That from my understanding is the fastest growing Muslim poluation in the US !!! Alhudillaah! I wish I spoke Spanish myself!

Assalam Aleikum,

I think the editor (of HalfDate) owes us an explanation as to why include Williams the journalist as a potential drive? Is it for her work? for Dolly Freeds? or for showing “just a goodwill gesture”?

When there are so many needy people and families out there, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, we’re helping a journalist (Muslim or not) to raise the fund simply because she couldn’t get someone’s story published? There must be something I’m missing here.

Unless there’s a good reason for it, may I suggest you to leave the fund-raising work to her readers, not your readers/viewers/supporters?

Keep up with the good work! I support all of the other drives you propose (But I’ll pick three only, insha Allah).

To Absoud, wa alaikum assalam,

It is explained in the text already. Yes, all that you mentioned.

HalfDate always wanted to run a drive for journalism, but seems every times Muslims are reluctant to give for such causes.

Do you know that many Muslim organizations spend millions of dollars on TV, newspaper, and billboard ads? Those ads serve nobody but ads companies. At least we are proposing to serve some writers/journalists.

and Allah knows best

Assalalm Aleikum,

I think I got it — publicity! Forgive me for being so slow!

I am NOT AT ALL against the program being recognized by the general public. In fact, this is what we need to do to get more people involved to spread our care, our love and, of course, our religion. A word of caution, though…

I was encouraged when Eddie (from The Deen Show) mentioned HalfDate.com’s efforts when giving out a bag of Dawah DVDs to his special guests appeared in his show because I was confident about the decency of his work (from watching his show on a regular basis). However, we certainly don’t want to see that HalfDate.com is publicized by someone who is lack of credibility or integrity. I am certainly NOT suggesting any particular one is lack of credibility or integrity. But, did you do the homework?

Please let us know that we are not blindly supporting the project that might turn against the site’s reputation in the future.

Asalamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatu. I voted for Financial Winter assistance because I know how grateful I am to jump in my car or rush into my apartment to get out of the cold AlhamduliAllah, I can only wonder how some shut off electricity and gas people are faring, sometimes; with these 11 degree days it gets cold with the heat on!

I really wanted to vote for all of them. Is there any way we could do maybe all of them? It is income tax time maybe people could give their Zakat in portions some to this cause, some to that? Just some thoughts

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