Muslims Mark Solidarity With Jews

[Sapphire Blue]

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.

(snip)

"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.

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

[last1standing]

1. But I thought all those Islamofascists wanted to destroy the Jews.

:sarcasm:

This is something we don't hear enough of, but there are many, many Jews and Muslims who live together, work together, and even socialize together. Not everyone buys into the manufactured hate.

K&R

[skypilot]

2. Thanks.

I needed that.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Fantastic!

I hope people watch the video, it too is very good. Thanks for the story!

[sabra]

4. warms my heart! k & r

[Lurking Dem]

5. What a marvelous story!

[myrna minx]

6. What a wonderful story.

:hug:

[rockymountaindem]

7. That's very heartwarming

I'm glad to see that happening, as well as the whole "Dennis Prager doesn't speak for us" thing.

[immoderate]

8. Happy to K&R this.

Good people are everywhere. :) Sometimes we forget.

--IMM

[cali]

9. K&R

for love and understanding

[Sapphire Blue]

18. kick... for love and understanding

:kick:

[IndyOp]

10. Wow. Two more snippets:

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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"It's important that the world knows there are Muslims who don't believe in this ," Ahmed said after the ceremony. Also in the delegation were representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

Bloomfield, the museum director, noted that Magid delayed his trip to Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage by a day to attend the ceremony.

"That's a pretty strong statement," she said.

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My thanks to all who participated. Bless You.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. I'm sure things like this happen all the time

But don't tell the sectarian bigots on Free Republic. It will wreck their equalibrium.

[Karenina]

12. K&R!!!

[furman]

13. Thank you for posting this

I wish there were more stories like this.
Moderate Muslim leaders rarely get a voice in today's media.

[SemperEadem]

14. and this happened right near Virgil Goode's state

he needs to get a copy of this. Sara J. Bloomfield and Halina Peabody need to hollar at the boy.

[cool user name]

15. A big kick and a hardy recommend! n/t

[Taxloss]

16. This is very encouraging.

A kick for a bit of sanity and tolerance.

[Clark2008]

17. Yeah!

I'm Christian, my first husband is Muslim and my second husband is Jewish. I have a son by the first husband and one (sex unknown) on the way by the second.

The way I look at it: we get to celebrate MORE holidays!

:hug: PEACE!

[last1standing]

19. Kicking for the night crowd.

Everyone should read this.

:kick:

[Sapphire Blue]

20. Again for the late night crowd.

:kick:

[progressoid]

21. Yeah, I heard all about this on Bill O'Reilly's show...

NOT!