The International Federation of the Red Cross is a hypocritical organization.  In Muslim countries it is called The Red Crescent (and any aid packages/vehicles are marked with a crescent moon).<p>Yet only one muslim country (Kuwait) figures (low down) in the accounts of top 25 donor countries for the IFRC for recent years. But 10 of the top 25 beneficiary countries are muslim.  Thus the many of the donations from christian countries to an ostensibly christian emergency relief charity actually end up going to help muslims and are branded as aid from a muslim charity.  (Either most of those oil-rich muslim countries aren't giving to charities, or they're only giving to charities that aid other muslims -- and it's probably the latter.)<p>I have no objection to people receiving aid whatever their religion (or lack of).  But it disgusts me that that aid given to a "christian" charity uses the religious imagery of the donating country to raise money and ends up deceiving the recipients into believing it came from a muslim charity.<p>Donor and recipient end up being deceived by this duplicitous organization.  Most people I've talked to about this have no idea that the IFRC is branded as the "Red Crescent" in muslim countries.<p>I prefer to support Médecins Sans Frontières.  They seem far more honest about what they are doing.<p>The American Red Cross looks like it is not part of this IFRC duplicity.