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Supporting
work here and in Iraq
The Remember
Fallujah events in November 2005 raised donations
to support two solidarity causes: the cost of bringing Iraqi speakers
to the Voices from Occupied Iraq conference
organised by Iraq
Occupation Focus on 26 November (see Events), and to support the
work of the Muslim Peacemaker Teams (MPT).
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MPTers and young people at a mosque in Fallujah (www.cpt.org) |
Muslim Peacemaker Teams formed at the end of 2004, drawing on the rich tradition of nonviolence within Islamic spirituality. In January 2005 they invited the international group Christian Peacemaker Teams (www.cpt.org) to assist them in their first nonviolence training course in Kerbala which, along with Najaf, is the home of many of the first MPT members. In April 2005, a year after the first invasion of Fallujah, MPT took a team of 18 Shia Muslims, including 3 women, to the largely Sunni Arab town to serve their fellow Iraqis by cleaning the streets of rubble and litter. They prayed in a local mosque and were welcomed by Fallujans with a vast meal and a gift of Qu'rans to all the MPT members. MPT is planning to expand around the country and develop nonviolent initiatives to unite Iraqis and challenge the abuses of the occupation. |
Download
the PDF for the Voices/Peace News 4 page publication, November 2005
(317kb)
A full list of events during the Remember Fallujah month is now available here.