![]() When more than 31,300 Detroit residents had their water turned off in January of 2013, Islamic Relief USA and the Michigan Muslim Community Council banded together to donate $100,000 to the Detroit Water Fund and Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency, saying “it is important to us in our faith to help our neighbors. ![]() In a year when Muslims were the scapegoats for Donald Trump and much of the GOP, when terror attacks involving a few Muslims put an entire community of billions under the microscope, American Muslims fought to take the narrative back to one of hope and good by involving themselves in charity and crowdfunding initiatives. So, in the fine tradition of Altmuslim, here are the top ten Good Muslim Stories of 2015 (in no particular order)! Read, reflect and be happy. And we’d always rather end on a positive note. In a year when fear was threatening to take over the collective world narrative, hope and good fought back. It was a year in which we took bad situations and drew something good out of it, as well as several bright lights in our community that shined. Sure, we could talk about the Paris attacks, Charlie Hebdo, Isis, San Bernardino, Donald Trump, Islamophobia, anti-Muslim rhetoric and other things that made 2015 a difficult year for Muslim news, but why not end 2015 and look to 2016 by focusing on the positive? Because a lot of good things happened in 2015, from charity initiatives to the recognition of Eid as a holiday in various school districts to Muslim heroes responding to terrorism and violence to Muslims taking center stage in Hollywood to a big step forward for women-friendly mosques.
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