Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association as well as the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s international aid group, Humanity First, have been frequently departing to Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria hit back in September.
Source/Credit: Baltimore Post Examiner
By Adil Agha Khan | February 5, 2018
Dear Editor,
“In President Trump’s State of the Union address on the 30th of January, he made no mention of FEMA’s decision to pull food and water aid to the still-devastated Puerto Rico the day before. Instead he told the people of Puerto Rico that he was with them. Does a bully tell a kid he’s knocked over that he’s with him?
I ran into my high school Spanish teacher recently, Señor Ismael León, a Puerto Rican. He told me that a large number of Puerto Ricans are still living without electricity. I was shocked. However, I looked it up and sources like the New York Times and USA Today were reporting that half of Puerto Ricans are living without power. Let me rephrase that– roughly half of all American citizens in Puerto Rico are living without power. American citizens? Yes! Puerto Ricans are American citizens. Can you imagine what would happen if half of Washingtonians or New Yorkers were without power. How about for three months? The kicker really is that FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has decided to shut off aid to their own citizens who have been suffering for a quarter of a year. I for one cannot imagine FEMA doing this if a disaster was to strike DC.
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