Re: Donations

[Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

 --- Nadim Shaikli <nadim at arabeyes dot org> wrote: 
[...]
>  Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle at freenet dot de> wrote:
>  > The Address is from the USA and donations to a Bank in the USA
>  > are quiet expensive !!!
>  > 
>  > Better is, if you have an Bank-Account in Europe...
>  > And here you will get more donations as in the USA because they
>  > are more friendly to "Arabs".  :-)
> 
> Its in the US due to many reasons none of which are political or
> ideological.  Out of the four locations looked into (based on
> 'core' member physical location), the US and the 'core' member
> there seemed to be the only feasible option.  As for fees, I'm
> not sure we'll ever circumvent them - at a minimum now, whenever
> someone donates they be assured that every penny they donate will
> arrive without any fess from our end (ie. you know exactly what
> you sent, etc).

Perhaps I should draw your attention to the fact that using an account in the
US immediately excludes donations from many countries, Sudan is one for sure.
Probably Libya, Iran, Syria and others. I am not sure if we can expect any
donations from these countries, but should we shut the door on them?
AFAIK, the US is the only country that places such restrictions.

Salam,
Muhammad Alkarouri

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