The Foundation Beyond Belief is doing a fundraising drive to honor the Chapel Hill murder victims: Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. The man arrested for the murders, Craig Stephen Hicks, is a self-described atheist and opponent of religion, who had been bullying the victims for some time before he killed them. Please donate what you can — even small amounts add up — and please spread the word.
All donated funds will go directly to the Syrian American Medical Society Foundation — a charity supported by Barakat, a doctoral student in dentistry who planned to travel to Syrian refugee camps this summer to perform emergency dentistry for refugee children through SAMS. Please give as generously as you can. Thanks.
I just donated $50 and was happy to do so.
My atheism has no room for bigotry and violence. Although the $15,425 that’s been raised (as of 5:30 a.m. Friday, February 13, 2015) won’t bring back Deah, Yusor, and Razan, I’m heartened to see this response by the Humanist community.
Donated.