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How should Muslims behave toward refugees?

What will it benefit Muslims to assist refugees?

According to the United Nations, there are some 50 million refugees
in the world, and Muslims constitute a large portion of these. Due in
particular to colonialist countries' desire to take control of the rich
resources of Islamic lands, over the last hundred years millions of Mus-

lims have abandoned their land, homes and jobs and have had to seek
refuge in neighboring countries, living in camps under very harsh con-
ditions. Other peoples have then moved into the lands that were aban-
doned due to war, violence and occupation. Today, for example, a full
one-third of the Palestinian people are refugees. Indeed, the great
majority of those living inside Palestine have also had to leave their
homes and live in camps. There are hundreds of thousands of refugees,

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