Duluth News Tribune | 01/19/2005 | Christian charities quietly help Muslim victims

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Christian charities quietly help Muslim victims

Commentary by JOSEPH LOCONTE


Despite the media attention to the tsunami in South Asia, it still barely registers with many people that the country hit hardest happens to be the world's most populous Islamic nation. Indonesia has lost more than 105,000 people, most of them Muslims.
That tragic fact shines a light on a bracing yet neglected possibility: that the charitable tradition of the United States, supremely visible in its Christian relief organizations, "