Following Islamic tradition, the family of Muhammad Alghazali, the one-and-a-half-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a driver in SF’s Hayes Valley on the morning of December 14, is raising funds for a variety of charities in his name.

As the Chronicle reports, the little boy who was recently killed outside his home at Hayes and Webster streets in San Francisco, has been identified as Muhammad Alghazali. As SFist earlier reported, the toddler was fatally struck by a car driven by someone he knew, as he had run toward it when it was pulling out of a nearby driveway.

A friend of the Alghazali family recently wrote a post in a local parents’ Facebook group sharing the family’s goal of building Muhammad’s legacy by spreading good deeds, including constructing water wells and washrooms in third world countries, per the fundraiser’s GoFundMe page.

The page states that as part of the Alghazali’s Muslim religion, fulfilling good deeds in a person’s name allows them to receive the good deeds even after death.

Per the website Feeling Blessed, the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad emphasizes the value of small, consistent good deeds. “The Sunnah encourages Muslims to engage in acts of kindness and charity on a regular basis,” the website states. “Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) stated, ‘The believer's shade on the Day of Resurrection will be his charity.’ (Musnad Aḥmad 23490). This indicates that even small acts of charity, such as giving a smile, helping someone in need, or giving a small donation, can have a significant impact both in this world and the Hereafter.”

The family has raised $14,000 for the fundraiser so far, and the public is encouraged to donate.

Image: GoFundMe

Previously: [Update] One-Year-Old Boy Struck and Killed By Vehicle Near Hayes Valley

Novato police arrested 33-year-old David Slattery Friday morning after he crashed his car into the Islamic Center of North Marin and allegedly attacked someone inside the mosque.

As KTVU reports, an officer was patrolling the area when he heard a crash on the 7000 block of Redwood Boulevard around 11:30 am Friday and ran to investigate, according to a press release from the department.

As the Chronicle reports, the officer witnessed the driver entering the mosque after he crashed a car into the exterior of the building. The driver then allegedly attacked someone in the building while speaking incoherently before the officer intervened.

KTVU reports that the victim of the attack was treated at the hospital for minor injuries. Slattery was arrested and charged on suspicion of felony assault, burglary, and vandalism. His bail is set for $50,000, per KTVU.

Police say they weren’t able to determine whether the incident was a hate crime, as KTVU reports.  

Image: Novato Police Department

Related: SF Mosque Attendees Harassed With Hateful Acts on Christmas Eve

Steve Kerr -- "as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism" -- speaks out against Donald Trump's recent executive order pic.twitter.com/YbCH2sn0hw

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 30, 2017

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr spoke out sharply against President Trump's immigration ban Sunday, calling it "shocking" and characterizing it as a path to even more terror attacks.

Though Kerr's words echoed the dismay and disgust of many against Trump's executive order signed Friday banning entry into the US of all people from seven Muslim-majority nations for at least 90 days, the former NBA player turned coach has a unique perspective on the issue: As written about extensively in a New York Times piece last month, Kerr's father was targeted by and assassinated by terrorists in 1984, while serving as the president of American University in Beirut.

“It’s really simple to demonize Muslims because of our anger over 9/11, but it’s obviously so much more complex than that,” Kerr told the Times in December. “The vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving people, just like the vast majority of Christians and Buddhists and Jews and any other religion. People are people.”

"As easy as it is to demonize people, there’s a lot of different factors involved in creating this culture that we’re in now.”

A year before his dad's slaying, Kerr was trapped in Beirut himself during the summer between high school and his first year at Arizona State.

“There was some question about whether flights would be going out because of everything that was happening,” Kerr said. “We were in the terminal, and all of a sudden there was a blast. It wasn’t in the terminal but on the runways. The whole place just froze. Everybody just froze. People started gathering, saying, ‘We’ve got to get the hell out of here.’ My mom grabbed me, and I remember running out of the terminal and through the parking lot. It was really scary. I remember thinking, ‘This is real.’”

The Kerrs pondered options for getting Steve out. They learned that a private plane of diplomats was going to the United States Marine base and there might be an available seat on the flight back out. Steve spent hours waiting, talking to Marines. In the end, there were no seats. The Kerrs eventually made arrangements for a university driver to take Steve over the mountains, through Syria to Jordan. (The driver, a longtime friend of the family, was killed by a sniper in Beirut in 1985.)

On an early morning in October 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the four-story Marine barracks. Among the dead were 220 Marines and 21 other service members.

“I remember looking at all the photos afterward,” Kerr said. He started to cry. “I see all these, the nicest people, who I met and they were showing us around the base and just trying to do their jobs and keep the peace. And a truck bomb?”

Kerr said he recognized some of the faces of the dead.

“There is a chaplain who had come over and kind of taken us under his wing,” he said. “The nicest guy. And I saw his face. ...”

Kerr wiped his eyes and took a deep breath. “What has it been, 30 years? And it still brings me to tears.”

It's clear that those long-ago experiences have shaped Kerr's perception to this day, as on Sunday night, following the Warriors' 113-111 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers, Kerr told assembled members of the press that "As someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism, having lost my father, if we're trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, by really going against the principals of what our country's about and creating fear, it's the wrong way to go about it."

"If anything, we could be breeding anger and terror," Kerr said. "I think it's shocking. I think it's a horrible idea. I feel for all the people who are affected. Families are being torn apart and I worry in the big picture what this means to the security of the world."

Needless to say, Kerr was immediately hit with vile responses via social media, none of which I will include here because people like that don't deserve additional attention. But, also, they are total sad amateur hour compared to what Kerr endured shortly after his dad's slaying at the hands of a group calling itself Islamic Holy War, when on the court playing for the University of Arizona he endured taunts of “P.L.O., P.L.O.,” “Your father’s history,” and “Why don’t you join the Marines and go back to Beirut?”

“When I heard it, I just dropped the ball and started shaking,” Kerr said of the experience.

“I sat down for a minute. I’ll admit they got to me. I had tears in my eyes. For one thing, it brought back memories of my dad. But, for another thing, it was just sad that people would do something like that.”

Kerr, who likely has a greater understanding of the Middle East than some current White House staffers, said in December that American policies have made a bad situation in the area worse.

“To use Colin Powell’s line, ‘If you break it, you own it,’ and now we own it,” Kerr said. “And it’s, like, ‘Oh, my God, wait, it’s so much more complicated than we thought.’ Everybody looks back and thinks we would have been way better off not going to war. That was really dumb. But history repeats itself all the time. We didn’t need to go into Vietnam, but circumstances, patriotism, anger, fear — all these things lead into war."

"It’s a history of the world," Kerr said. "It just so happens that now is probably the scariest time since I’ve been alive.”

See all of SFist's coverage on the immigration ban here.

As the year draws to a close, de Young Director Max Hollein is providing a sneak peek at what lies ahead for the San Francisco art museum. The New York Times reports that the first major show developed since Hollein took charge will open in the fall of 2018 and is tentatively set to be titled “The Fashion of Islam."

"There are probably people who don’t even think there is fashion in Islam,” Mr. Hollein told the paper. “But if you look at Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Beirut, the fashion is really vibrant, and it can speak to larger political and social developments, cultural understanding and misunderstandings.”

The exhibit will focus on hijabs, and follows in the footsteps of "Faith, Fashion, Fusion” — an Australian show dealing with so-called "modest fashion." This is not the first time the de Young has shown fashion, with the 2012 Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit proving the popularity of the topic.

According to Hollein, textiles curators at the museum will “put together a group of scholars and experts to develop the project, both in the area of fashion and the history of culture.” The exhibit will look at both European interpretations of the hijab, Islamic streetwear, and the history of the garment.

“We want to apply the same scholarly rigor here that we would apply to an old masters’ show,” Hollein explained.

Related: Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibit: Designer's Childhood Teddy Bear Wearing First Cone Bra

If Republican "presidential candidate" Donald Trump plans to individually register American Muslims — something he's insinuated he'd like to do in order to (successfully) bait a thirsty media and feed the darkest, most bestial instincts of his trollish base — he's got his work cut out for him in the Bay Area.

Spread about the six counties surrounding San Francisco is one of the largest Muslim populations in the United States according to a 2010 study from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. The study found 250,000 Muslims living here, who as a whole represent under one percent of US as a whole. Some, many, even perhaps all of these American Muslims are resistant — even consternated by — Trump's proposals, and predictably disturbed their resonance in certain Islamophobic echo chambers.

Noman Munif, a 38-year-old business development executive at Google, was born in Pakistan. He lives in the Bay Area with his three children and heads the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center, a group of thriving professionals like business owners, founders, and CEOs.

"This is home," he told the Chronicle. "We would hope that we are considered Americans. The fear is, today Donald Trump is saying Muslims can’t come to this country... When is he going to be saying Muslims here have to leave?”

Actually, Mr. Trump seems to have proposed that if Muslims do leave the US they won't be able to come back, so he's definitely working on this. But Munif is just one Bay Area Muslim who finds the abhorrent public figure's abhorrent rhetoric to be.... bad.

Let's hear from some more, courtesy of ABC7.

Rabia Chaudry: "It's an ignorant, ill-thought, unconstitutional, likely illegal proposal from someone who I believe does not have public service as his core value."

Mujeeb Ijaz: "I think it plays into the hands of groups like ISIL that are looking for a crack in the American spirit."

Dalia Mogahed, director of research at the aforementioned Institute, also registered dismay. “These statements mark a new low in our political discourse. He may not have a chance of winning the presidential race, but he has already changed our country by pushing the boundaries of socially acceptable bigotry,” said Mogahed. “What was unthinkable is now mainstream.”

You know what, just to piss Trump off, let's hear from MOAR MUSLIMS.

Michael Kim, age 46, of Lafayette, is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and for seven years served as an active duty naval officer “How is it possible that this country I love, that I’m a community member of, a nation I defend, is turning its back on me so harshly?” he said

35-year-old emergency room physician Asad Tarsin who lives in Dublin, said "I feel we are at a crossroads at a nation. I think that with crossroads there’s a degree of concern if we as a country are going to make the right decisions."

Somehow, bless her, Tarsin has found a way to be hopeful and generous. "I think I have more faith in my fellow Americans than I do a segment of the population that’s been duped by a rhetoric of fear.”

Now that's a faith to which we should all subscribe.

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by Lindsay William-Ross / LAist

A video posted yesterday to YouTube shows footage from a February, 13th protest in Yorba Linda, held outside a fundraising event held by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), with a goal of aiding women's shelters, and fighting homelessness and hunger in the US. The protesters were there to speak out against "what they called the group’s agenda to impose Sharia (Islamic law) on American society," explains the Jewish Journal. "They were particularly upset with the event’s keynote speakers, New York cleric Imam Siraj Wahhaj and Amir Abdel Malik Ali, whom they said hold anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views."

The protest got underway mid-afternoon, following several days of grassroots organizing. While politicians in the OC attempted to stop the $25-a-plate event, or force them to choose a different speaker, people from all over Southern California, including Los Angeles, planned the protest. "In the afternoon, the event had the atmosphere of a July 4 picnic. Many brought lawn chairs and blankets, sang patriotic songs and tied red, white and blue bandanas on their dogs," said the OC Register.

A group of about 100 splintered off from the principal group of protesters, including some who carried signs that linked ICNA to Hamas and Hezbollah. ICNA's spokesperson said those people did not know the facts about the organization, adding "We have no links to any overseas organization. We absolutely denounce violence and terrorism."

However, notes the Register, "Malik Ali is a Bay Area Islamic activist who spoke at 'Israeli Apartheid Week' at UC Irvine in 2010. There he said he supports Hezbollah, which the CIA labels a terrorist group."

The message, though, as heard in the shouts of the protesters, was that the people at the event were terrorists, child molesters, and wife-beaters, who worship a fraudulent prophet, and, above all else, are not welcome in not only Yorba Linda, but also in America.

Among the protesters were Rabbi Dov Fischer of Young Israel of Orange County, Irvine Jewish activist Dee Sterling and U.S. Congressmen Ed Royce (R-CA), Gary Miller (R-CA), and Chapman University adjunct professor of law Karen Lugo, who said "This is not about hate [...] We are not hatemongers. The world Islamophobia is an effort to chill us. The Constitution was never meant to allow a tyranny of a minority."

Video: cairsocal / YouTube

Baghdad by the Bay, indeed.

But in all seriousness, the site is actually interesting. Check it out.

We swear, this guy is one step away from strapping road flares to his chest.

Now, it's increasingly difficult for us to explain the conceptual art that is Michael Savage's work. Its genius lies in its demented complexity. But according to Bay City News (via CBS 5), Savage recently "sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations in federal court in San Francisco Monday over the group's use of his words on its Web site." Apparently, they used one of his many hateful yet poetic and loud crazy-man diatribes about Islam on their site. Savage says he was taken out of context, but Ibrahim Hooper, an American-Islamic Relations spokesman, said that the his lawsuit "seems to be a legal and rhetorical rant" (heh) as well as "one of the most vicious attacks on the faith of Islam that I've heard in more than 20 years of anti-discrimination work."

Well, we really don't know what to say about Savage's fit about how others should use his words (especially since his own critical thinking skills are famously dull.) Except: oh you, Michael. You just go on keeping it real. Mighty real. Mighty crazy real.

Read more about it here.

Unfortunately, despite all the fawning attention Ms. Nancy seems to be giving to Bono, Bono didn't leave the meetings happy, saying that the new Democratic leadership weren't very helpful as they were unable to commit just a mere $1 billion to fight off all sorts of bad things in Africa. Afterwards, Bono dissed the new leadership and mentioned that nobody is willing to step up because they're too busy blaming the other side for not being able to stand up. Later, he did a little backtracking and made nice with new Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, who couldn't help but do a little crowing about meeting with the Sunglassed one. And while this political guy thinks it's a plus for the Democrats to show they're not going to go around handing money to poor people all willy-nilly like they used to do, Wonkette's having a debate about whether one could really snark on Bono because after all, he is actually doing something positive and making a difference. It's just that he won't shut up about it.

Basically, what the story is about is this guy who is hanging a figure that looks like an arab (he says it's not an arab but a "terrorist" for which we are all missing the subtelty in his caricture). He was hanging the figure from a tree but after a complaint was made, the cops told him to take it down. So he moved it into his front lawn where it will stay until we "finish the job in Iraq".

Now, some of you might be wondering why wouldn't he think people would find this offensive? To which the reply is:

"If you're offended that's okay. I'm offended at liberalism. I'm offended at people who want to kill the pope. I'm offended by people who burn effigies of the American flag and of George Bush."

And well, it goes on. Seriously, check it out. As crazy as the above sounds, it gets even crazier when he starts talking about American children having to learn Islam by force and girls being forced to wear burkas and so on and so forth. Then there's the guy who rides by yelling "hoo ra!" right in the middle of the interview. It's tremendous stuff.

SFist says go check it out.