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The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh transferred the remaining $85,000 worth of donations Wednesday afternoon to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh to support the victims’ families, survivors and first responders of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Squirrel Hill.
A quick scroll through Twitter, using #Pittsburgh, early Wednesday revealed some social media users were questioning where the money raised by the Muslim community was going. Several articles and posts used headlines such as “Muslim group that raised money for Pittsburgh synagogue kept almost all of the money.”
KDKA went directly to Wasi Mohamed, the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh’s executive director, who called the trending stories “fake news.”