Tsunami: Isle Muslims offer prayers, funds

They weren't praying just for the victims thousands of miles away. At Manoa Valley's mosque yesterday afternoon, Hawaii Muslims also prayed for five island families that have lost relatives in southern Asia's deadly seismic waves. Some of the families, all of whom attend the mosque, have lost as many as four family members in the disaster. "It's actually people we know who are directly affected," said Hakim Ouansafi, president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii. "As Muslims, we have to do whatever we can."

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