Free­lance Con­trib­u­tor

Imam Rasheed Karim has called for greater eq­ui­ty in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al re­sources, say­ing Mus­lims should re­ceive their “fair share of the na­tion­al pie.”

Karim made the re­marks in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia fol­low­ing his Eid ul Fitr ser­mon at the Masjid ul Faaraq on Greenidge Street, Fe­lic­i­ty, on Sat­ur­day. While he com­mend­ed the Gov­ern­ment for in­creas­ing fi­nan­cial al­lo­ca­tions to masjids for this year’s Eid cel­e­bra­tions, he said the sup­port re­mained in­suf­fi­cient com­pared with the needs of the Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty.