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SHELTER FOR BATTERED MUSLIM WOMEN FACING CRISIS:
You can Help!
[After helping 400 women and counselling 6,000 
people, Baitul Salaam is 
facing Financial End Time.]
The Baitul Salaam Residence for Battered Women 
may have to shut its doors 
this summer due to lack of funding.  The Stipend 
Volunteer Staff who started as 
volunteers four years ago have worked without pay 
for two months.  The 
cofounder Hadayai Majeed and her husband have 
paid all they can out of their pockets 
and fund raising efforts at the local baseball 
stadium due to the slow economy 
is not netting what it did a few years ago.  The 
Baitul Salaam Network, Inc. 
needs your help today.  A collective effort will 
not burdened anyone it would 
mean pennies per person.  The amount of $3,000 
per month is needed to keep the 
doors of the shelter open. The organization is 
asking that masaajid, 
businesses and organizations around the country 
take up a donation and send it 
immediately.
It will be a shame for the doors of the shelter 
to close and this 
organization to have to drastically reduce or 
stop its services to the community after 
working diligently for almost seven years to 
serve the entire Islamic community 
of North 
America. 
It will be a shame that after 
approximately 400 women and 
children have been served by this group through 
the shelter program that the 
doors close.  This organization has served 
approximately 6,000 men, women and 
children through counseling (in person, email and 
telephone), referrals for 
legal, medical (including psychiatric), 
job/career, provided escorts to court 
hearings, clothes and food.
This organization has answered the calls from 
many of you without hesitation 
especially in metro Atlanta.  No regard to school 
of thought, ethnicity, race 
or geographic location.  We need our brothers and 
sisters in faith to help us 
today.  We ask that you pass the collection 
containers for us at your local 
masaajid, at your club meetings, organization 
meetings and your businesses.  A 
collective effort will mean no one person, 
masaajid, business or organization 
will be burdened.  Please give! Muslim women and 
children in need should not be 
forced to go to Jews, Christians or others for 
assistance.  We should be able 
to help our own.  Break the cycle of neglect, 
abuse and lack or cooperative 
sharing in work for Allah.  Give Today!
Send all donations to:
Baitul Salaam Network, Inc.
PO Box 11041
Atlanta, GA 30310
You can call us at (800) 285-9489 pin #00 our 
office hours are 
Monday-Thursday 9 am-12 noon.
May Allah continue to guide, protect and bless 
all of the Believers.
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LETTER
SIRAJ WAHHAJ has a RECORD OF COOPERATION WITH THE 
PEOPLE IN POWER
[Among other thngs, he has been Central Committee 
Member of 
ISNA 
for Many 
Years]
Subj:    RE: Defense of Siraj Wahhaj's Disney 
Adventure
As Salamu `Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,
The sister's intentions may have been good - but 
was not Siraj Wahhaj one of 
those Muslim leaders breaking bread with 
bush jr 
during 
Ramadhan 
and making 
the bush jr-oriented statement after the world 
trade center and pentagon 
destruction? So, what was her point? 
The Dawah conference did not have to 
take place in a many-starred, expensive hotel 
conference room with mention 
of it's proximity to DisneyWorld. The most 
appropriate place would have been 
in a Masjid or two, if necessary. Maybe the 
sister did not appreciate the 
criticism of her imam, Allah Knows Best. And 
maybe, Insha`Allah, he (Siraj 
Wahhaj) will say the one thing that will make her 
realize that he fears 
others (according to his actions and words, as I 
do not know what is in his 
heart) more than he fears Allah. Allah Knows, I 
do not.
Fi Sabilillah,
Hamdiyah [South Carolina]
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