TX: MUSLIM GROUPS REACHING OUT TO QUAKE VICTIMS -ELLENA F. MORRISON, Star-Telegram, 10/18/05 http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/12931568.htm
Buildings that were under construction when Rehana Kausar left Kashmir as a child no longer stand, reduced to rubble by the recent south Asian earthquake.
"These were landmark places," said Kausar, an anesthesiologist with Harris Methodist Fort Worth hospital and president of the Islamic Medical Association of North America. "The day I heard they were all gone, it really affected me."
Kausar left Sunday for the region to offer medical care as part of a relief team assembled by the medical association, the Irving-based Islamic charity Baitulmaal and other Islamic groups. The team is part of an outpouring of support from area Muslims for Kashmir, a remote region that straddles northern Pakistan and India. The two countries have fought over Kashmir for decades.
"I can't even imagine what I am going to see," Kausar said Friday. "There are still going to be bodies. I don't know how I am going to feel about it."
About 10 medical professionals from across the United States will go to the region for about two weeks at a time. The first group will arrive this week in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
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I personally am a little disturbed over the outpouring of condolences and charity there was for the tsunami victims and Katrina victims, but I feel like the US is strangely silent on this earthquake tragedy. Am I missing something? 
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