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Jack Swanson is a little boy who lives in south Texas and he did something last week that a lot of us might not do, and a lot of us might rail against.
After a community mosque in their neighborhood had been defaced in a Hate Crime, seven-year-old Jack took the $20 from his piggy bank — twenty bucks he’d been saving to buy an iPad — and gave it to the mosque.
Twenty bucks isn’t a lot of money, unless you’re a seven-year-old … or unless you’re Faisal Naem, a board member from the Islamic Center of Pflugerville, who said Jack’s gift was comparable to “$20 million” to the Muslim community.
And when Ardalan Iftikhar — known to some as The Muslim Guy on social media — heard about Jack’s gift, he contacted Jack’s mother, Laura, and a few days later Jack got a package and a note in the mail:
‘Dear Jack, You had saved $20 in your piggybank for an Apple iPad. But then a local Islamic mosque was vandalised. So you donated your $20 to this local Texas mosque. Because of your amazing generosity & kind heart. Please enjoy this Apple iPad with our sincere thanks :-). Love, The American Muslim Community.’
Wouldn’t this be a great world if there were more Jack Swanson’s in it? I mean, of any age, we could use more Jack Swanson’s.
And more Ardalam Iftikhar’s too.
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Isaiah 11:6 --"The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them."
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ReplyDelete:-)) good folks all around!
ReplyDeleteThere are good people out there and we need to know about them; note to Trump and Carson, not all good people are Christians! Look at the Good Samaritan for one and Ardalan Iftikhar for another. I don't know the Swanson family's religion (if any), but they clearly are bringing Jack up to love his neighbours
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