RAMADAN MAY PROMPT MUSLIMS TO TARGET ZAKAT ALMS ON UKRAINIAN REFUGEES FOLLOWING RUSSIAN INVASION
April 26th, 2022
Muslims have been considering how their ‘Zakat’ charitable obligations during Ramadan delivers an obligation to supporting Muslim refugees from Ukraine, forced from their home by the Russian invasion of their country.
The war has prompted the largest refugee crises that Europe has experienced this century, even larger than the impact of the war in Syria. According to the most recent figures from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), more than 4 million refugees have fled to bordering countries and over 2 million Ukrainians have been displaced internally ...
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