# Recent hate crimes--relief fund?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-hate-crimes-relief-fund/82535>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 19, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-hate-crimes-relief-fund/82535 "2001-09-19T04:34:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yersinia\_Pestis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yersinia\_Pestis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia_Pestis)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-hate-crimes-relief-fund/82535/1 "2001-09-19T04:34:49Z")

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I’d like to make a donation to a fund that’ll help victims of the recent hate crimes in America against Muslims and Arabs. Does anybody know of such a fund? I haven’t seen one on the internet yet. (Or can you tell me how to find out if one is reputable, if I do find one?)

Failing that, what non-profit groups work generally towards this goal?

Politically naive,  
Yersinia

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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-hate-crimes-relief-fund/82535/2 "2001-09-19T04:47:00Z")

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You might try contacting [the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee](http://www.adc.org/).

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**Author:** ![evilhanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@evilhanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhanz)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-hate-crimes-relief-fund/82535/3 "2001-09-19T04:50:32Z")

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I haven’t heard of any specific funds for these victims. However, you might want to direct your search through the [ACLU](http://www.aclu.org/). If no funds have been established, they will accept donations to support their particular causes. Be careful who you give your money to. Just as with the church burnings of a few years ago, there are many opportunists willing to cash in on the expectation of hate crimes. There has already been at least one deliberately false report involving a muslim business owner.

Let’s not forget that there are also funds to help the victims of the massive hate crime perpetuated by the mulsim terrorists.

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**Author:** ![Yersinia\_Pestis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yersinia\_Pestis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia_Pestis)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-hate-crimes-relief-fund/82535/4 "2001-09-19T06:00:01Z")

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How could I forget the September 11th victims?

This is probably more information than anybody cares to know, but I just received my tax rebate today and I’d like to do something worthwhile with the money. So I’m donating part of it to the Red Cross and looking for a group as I requested above. I want to make a gesture towards something for a better future as well as towards helping people recover from the horrible damage done.

I’m curious about this:

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> _Originally posted by evilhanz \*  
> [BThere has already been at least one deliberately false report involving a muslim business owner._\*

A false report of a hate crime or a fraudulent relief fund?

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**Author:** ![Lockfist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@Lockfist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockfist)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-hate-crimes-relief-fund/82535/5 "2001-09-19T06:40:58Z")

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I’m going to donate to the ACLU. I like the Red-Cross and all but I think our biggest problems lie ahead.