Islamic Charity Events
OP - November 05, 2010, 10:22 PM
So I just got back from a charity event held by Islamic Relief at in our student's union. My excuse: my friend was going and I had nothing better to do. Plus I can't deny had a sense of curiosity at how I would view such events as an outsider. And yes, I am an extremely sad person sometimes.
Observations:
- The gulf of no-man's land in the middle of the room (having not been to a segregated event in over a year) and the immense sense of sexual tension between the brothers/sisters side of the room. You could cut it with an ottoman dagger!
- Warm bottles of some sort of Islamified fake coca-cola on the tables.
- A comedy reel made by the ISOC was centred around brothers whilst the girls just had supporting parts and the fact that sisters didn't seem to pick up on this and just laughed along with it
- Islamic Relief Man (who had pointed himself out in every photo in the documentary) went televangelist on us and started trying to get us to sponsor an orphan... he almost lost his rag and started shouting at another guy halfway through not to close the bidding
- The use of religious incentives such as being "one" with Muhammad to coerce people into giving money they probably didn't have and the fact there were blatantly people planted in the room to get the ball rolling
- The use of overly emotive language and a sense of desperate urgency and excessive tautology, which I have noticed a lot of Islamic speakers use in order to command a room, particularly when talking shit
- Why are there so many overweight beardos? I mean if you are a charity worker and overweight, something is seriously wrong
Okay now I'm not in any way undermining the cause, which is to help flood-affected orphans and to sponsor them. What I am against is the way Islamic organisations manipulate people into giving charity by invoking bullshit incentives such as being with Muhammad in heaven. Is it wrong to think this way? Is the greater good what it's all about?
I guess if it wasn't for people like Islamic Relief then many parts of the world would be screwed. It's just that I hate the way beardos manipulate people, they know that if they use a certain almost-Qur'anic rhetoric, sprinkle a few "subhanallahs" here and there, the audience is like butter in their hands.
End of the day, 30+ orphans got sponsored. Perhaps I'm missing the point.
Topic: Islamic Charity Events