Source: wesa.fm

“Muslims for Life” is holding a blood drive in Wilkinsburg Monday as part of a national campaign to collect 12,000 pints of blood and save an estimated 36,000 lives.

Adnan Ahmed, an organizer for the event, said the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community launched the campaign in 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

“On that particular day, not only those planes, but also the religion of Islam we believe was hijacked by painting a wrong and militant picture of the religion,” said Ahmed. “And the terrorist extremists have created suspicion of all Muslims.”

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA is the first American-Muslim organization. Its international parent group was founded in 1899 and currently spans 200 countries.

Ahmed said that, in their first and second years, they collected about 11,000 pints of blood.

He said the blood drives are a way of telling Americans that Muslims hold life sacred and “are here to save lives, not take lives.”

Ahmed said Muslims for Life held… continue reading at wesa.fm