BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND ¨C For some British Muslims, the path to jihad and the path to peaceful aid work can traverse much of the same terrain.
From an office in Britain¡¯s second largest city, Waseem Iqbal and a friend are planning a trip to the Middle East. In Jordan, they will bring food packages for Syrian refugees.
Iqbal, 27, chose charity work not violence. ¡°How do you save innocents in Syria? By going into a war zone and getting yourself killed? Or by . . . bringing people water pumps, schools and food packages? This is what saves innocents,¡± he said.
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