christiefan915
Catalyst
It's rare that stories like this get reported here. Time to counter all the hate articles we read on a regular basis.
"We pay a great deal of attention to the actions of Muslim radicals, and when an extremist does something terrible, we always hear the complaints of those who want to hear more loudly from Muslim moderates. So, it’s important that everyone — Muslims, Jews, Christians and people who hold other beliefs — hear about an event that unfolded a few weeks ago at Auschwitz...
The imams came from the U.S., India, Indonesia, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. They toured the camp, listened to Holocaust survivors, Polish rescuers, and others. They saw the gas chambers used to kill, the ovens used to turn the dead to ashes, the display of shoes from thousands of children taken to their deaths...
That’s why it’s so significant that after the visit ended, the Muslim leaders issued a landmark statement. “We bear witness,” they said, “to the absolute horror and tragedy of the Holocaust, where millions upon millions of human souls perished, more than half of whom were people of the Jewish faith.” And they added, “it is unacceptable to deny this historical reality and [we] declare such denials or any justification of this tragedy as against the Islamic code of ethics.”
"We pay a great deal of attention to the actions of Muslim radicals, and when an extremist does something terrible, we always hear the complaints of those who want to hear more loudly from Muslim moderates. So, it’s important that everyone — Muslims, Jews, Christians and people who hold other beliefs — hear about an event that unfolded a few weeks ago at Auschwitz...
The imams came from the U.S., India, Indonesia, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. They toured the camp, listened to Holocaust survivors, Polish rescuers, and others. They saw the gas chambers used to kill, the ovens used to turn the dead to ashes, the display of shoes from thousands of children taken to their deaths...
That’s why it’s so significant that after the visit ended, the Muslim leaders issued a landmark statement. “We bear witness,” they said, “to the absolute horror and tragedy of the Holocaust, where millions upon millions of human souls perished, more than half of whom were people of the Jewish faith.” And they added, “it is unacceptable to deny this historical reality and [we] declare such denials or any justification of this tragedy as against the Islamic code of ethics.”
