Under normal circumstances, such fraud violates the tenets of Islam.
Karachi, May 28 – YouTube users have encountered repeated iterations of the ad: a young Palestinian woman begging the viewer to send fund to help them as they face homelessness, starvation, and lack of other basic necessities amid the current war – a campaign that violates Islamic laws against dishonesty and stealing, because those ads are, in the main, fake, and the money goes not to poor Palestinians but to enterprising Pakistanis and other grifters, who, one must assume, received some kind of permission from religious authorities to engage in such deception, because how could one accuse Muslims of violating Islam?
Experts surmised that the scammers collecting money that they pocket, using heart-rending videos of families and children in rubble – sometimes actually in Gaza, sometimes elsewhere – must have dispensation from their imams to engage in the behavior, because under normal circumstances, such fraud violates the tenets of Islam.
“I wouldn’t want to assume I know the reasoning for such a dispensation, but I could think of one or two, perhaps,” suggested New York Imam Ali Sayyed Al-Jifa. “Again, I don’t know the specifics of the situation, but it might go something like, ‘For Palestine, we suspend all normal rules of morality and kindness, so anything associated with Palestine, even in a contrived way, enjoys immunity from being judges immoral or in violation of Islamic Law.’ There are definitely people with that approach.”
“Another possibility,” he continued, “would have some disclaimer shown on the screen that Palestine relief is just one example of many possible uses for the funds, and maybe the producer of the campaign intends to use the revenue to help out other charitable causes, not specifically Palestinian families.”
Others found additional possible ways to explain the fundraising. “We don’t know for sure that the ads are produced in Pakistan, Turkey, or whatever,” observed pro-Palestine activist Mohsen Mahdawi. “It might be people in Gaza itself doing the grifting. The Palestine cause is one big grift to begin with. That’s how all the Palestinian leaders got so rich. It wasn’t prudent investment in the stock market, or a mysterious wealthy uncle who died and bequeathed billions. It’s aid and charity money, brazenly embezzled. This is the cause of Palestine, and I don’t understand why anyone is making a big deal about it happening through YouTube commercials, when it’s been happening all through the years through NGOs, the UN, and funding from various governments.”
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