The Islamic Al Rashid Trust in Afghanistan is engaged in rebuilding roads, feeding the poor, providing limbs to amputees and supplying sewing machines to widows so they can eke out a living. Now the group is protesting it being included on President Bush’s list of 27 suspected Islamic terrorist groups and individuals whose assets should be frozen. Leaders of Al Rashid called the allegations against the charity unfounded and unjustified. They said the attempt by the United States to restrict their benevolence exposed America as an opponent of Muslims rather than of terrorists, and said they “reserve the right to legal action.” In Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, it’s hard to miss the many Al Rashid signs evident in most parts of the city. The organization has opened dozens of bakeries, supplying subsidized bread to the war-ravaged, drought-parched population. Al Rashid, which is based in Pakistan, and several other Islamic charities have entered Afghanistan in a major way during the last year. The ruling Taliban have found the trend encouraging. Many make little secret of their hopes that Muslims will replace Western relief agencies and the United Nations as the nation’s chief benefactors.