Challenging Islamic Myth on Organ Transplants as Ailments Rise: “…religious leaders are rallying with doctors and

community outreach workers to dispel a decades-old myth

that the Koran forbids organ donation.” Because organ transplantes between relatives, and even ethnically similar people, are more successful, both medical and transplant advocates and religious leaders in the Arab-American community are trying to get their constituents to go with the Muslim dictum that ‘He who saves a life saves humanity’ rather than the one that says the a Muslim will not see Heaven if the body does not go before God whole. [New York Times]