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What began as a local effort by Muslim Americans to honor ambassador Chris Stevens who died during the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya earlier this month has become a global online movement.
Thousands of Muslims and others around the world have come together under the banner of Celebrate Mercy’s MercyMail campaign to offer their condolences and support to Stevens’ family.
“It’s just gone viral,” Tarek el Messidi, the young Muslim businessman and Celebrate Mercy founder who came up with the idea for the condolence campaign, told ABC 9 News.
el Messidi told WATE.com that the goal of the campaign had initially been to encourage 1,000 people to send online condolences to Stevens’ family. Within two days, however, that number was increased to 5,000.
And now, Celebrate Mercy says, even that goal has been smashed.
According to a press release published on Wednesday by the non-profit Muslim group, over 7,000 letters have been sent from 110 countries in eleven days and more continue to be sent out “at a rate of one letter every two minutes.”
The organization says it has received letters from Muslims “spanning five continents,” including many Libyans and Libyan-Americans.
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