Muslims Mark Solidarity With Jews

[Hatalles]

From the Washington Post:

Muslims Mark Solidarity With Jews
Event Held Days After Iranian Meeting That Denied Genocide

By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 21, 2006; Page B05



Local Muslim leaders lit candles yesterday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate Jewish suffering under the Nazis, in a ceremony held just days after Iran had a conference denying the genocide.

American Muslims "believe we have to learn the lessons of history and commit ourselves: Never again," said Imam Mohamed Magid of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, standing before the eternal flame flickering from a black marble base that holds dirt from Nazi concentration camps.

Around the hexagonal room, candles glimmered under the engraved names of the death camps: Chelmno. Auschwitz-Birkenau. Majdanek.

"We stand here with three survivors of the Holocaust and my great Muslim friends to condemn this outrage in Iran," said Sara J. Bloomfield, the museum's director, addressing a bank of TV cameras in the room, known as the Hall of Remembrance.

Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122001718.html

[maddezmom]

1. K&R

:thumbsup:

[IndyOp]

2. This is a beautiful article...

I particularly, deeply appreciate the comments of the holocaust survivors:

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One of them, Johanna Neumann, recounted at the ceremony how Muslims saved her Jewish family. Members of her family had fled from Germany to Albania, where Muslim families sheltered them and hid their identity during the Nazi occupation.

"Everybody knew who we were. Nobody would even have thought of denouncing us" to the Nazis, said the tiny 76-year-old Silver Spring resident. "These people deserve every respect anybody can give them."

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The Holocaust victims expressed gratitude for the gesture by the Muslims.

"We could live together in peace if only more of these things were happening," said Halina Peabody, 74, a native of Poland who lives in Bethesda.

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[roguevalley]

3. makes tears come to my eyes. I am glad for this article today.