Believers Bail Out is a community-led effort to bail out Muslims in pretrial incarceration and ICE custody as a form of zakat.

It is within our capacity and our duty as Muslims to be part of ending this cycle; a cycle that criminalizes poverty and is inherently racist in nature.

The United States currently incarcerates more than two million people, predominantly Black and Latinx. Almost half a million of these people are being held on pretrial bond (bail). Money bail penalizes poverty and reproduces racism. In 2015, nationwide the median bail was $10,000, while the median pre-incarceration annual income of people incarcerated was $15,000. Black people are twice as likely to be held pretrial as white people and Muslims in pretrial incarceration face an increased risk of victimization, surveillance and denial of religious freedom in the prison system due to anti-Muslim racism (frequently referred to as Islamophobia). People who are detained before trial have worse outcomes than those who confront their charges from outside a cage.

Click here to learn more about Believers Bail Out

Support Critical Translation Work this Ramadan.

RESPOND: Crisis Translation is continuously mobilizing to support the growing number of asylum seekers and refugees from Afghanistan, Haiti, and now Ukraine fleeing violence towards neighboring countries, and the hundreds of interpreters and translators working with them.

Contributions have allowed their Haitian Kreyol team to provide over 1,905 hours of emergency oral interpretation to asylum seekers and to translate thousands of pages for humanitarian parole applications until now. This has also enabled their Afghan languages team to start providing hundreds of hours (a total of 319 at the beginning of March!) of legal interpretation to refugees and to support thousands of Afghan families. These contributions have helped ensure that their team’s Haitian and Afghan interpreters can earn dignified wages and support their families.

Please support RESPOND: Crisis Translation so that their Afghan, Haitian Kreyòl and Ukrainian Language Teams can continue to do this life-saving work while earning just wages!