Europe and Muslim Immigrants

[Benton]

(03-08-2016, 05:45 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Agreed.   But forcing additional money to be spent to sort out a special shelf of food is beyond what is expected for charity.     My point was that they can help themselves within their community much like every other religion does for various things.  

As far as general charity goes if you are needing food then it's not realistic to be picky.   I have diet restrictions during lent, if I was receiving handouts at the time then of would take what I could get instead of asking for salmon over canned chicken or spam.

(03-08-2016, 05:57 PM)Sovereign Nation Wrote: St. Lucie can correct me if I am wrong, but I think what he is getting at, is that it is fine to help someone as long as you aren't having to go out of your way to help them.

It is the scenario of a homeless man asking for spare change, and you instead offer food, and the homeless man refusing the food because he wanted spare change.

Now if the homeless man was a Muslim asking for spare change and I offered him my ham sandwich it would be wrong of him to refuse my food and still want me to give him money.

if you're talking about a private charity or a church group, sure. From the way the article read, this is a public funded one. In that case, you're dealing with public money that should be used reflective of the community.