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Friday, September 26, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

where Abraham was chosen
to be a prophet, submitted to
God and was made imam, a
leader."
Moses is also a prophet in
Islam, the India-born Dr.
Siddigi continued, as are
David, Solomon and Jesus.
"There are no three tradi-
tions that have more in
common than these three
traditions," he told the audi-
ence. "Respect and reconcilia-
tion mean that when we dis-
agree ... we do so with re-
spect, with logic."
He urged that American
Muslims be welcomed as
equal partners in interfaith
discussions.
"Muslims are now your
neighbors, just as Christians
and Jews are neighbors."
Dr. Speight, co-director of
the Office of Christian-
Muslim Relations for the Na-
tional Council of Churches
and a Methodist minister,
said that the aim of the day
was "to manifest unity within
our diversity. In America, we
seem to glorify in our diver-
sity. I welcome the opportu-
nity to do the contrary."
He warned his listeners
that "nearly every similarity
(between the religions)) is a
potential trap. If we scratch
below the surface ... we be-
come quickly involved in dis-
similarity."
One example, he said, is
the patriarch Abraham and
the nature of his descendants.
For Jews, descent from Ab-
raham is physical, said Dr.
Speight. For Christians, the
descent is' spiritual.
Yet the "uniting truths" of
the three religions are the be-
lief in one God and the be-
lievers' submission to God, he
said.
Rabbi Tanenbaum, director
of international relations for
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, dealt with Jewish-
Muslim symbiosis:
"Nearly 1,400 years ago,
Judaism and a segment of
the Jewish people then living
in Arabia stood beside the
cradle of the Muslim religion
and Arab statehood," he said.

"The Muslim religion and
Arab nationhood took form
under Jewish impact, while
traditional Judai s m received
its final shape under
Muslim-Arab influences.
"When the Arabs retreated
from world history — roughly
from 1300 to 1900 — the
Oriental Jews virtually dis-
appeared from Jewish his-
tory, thus demonstrating
their interdependence," he
said.
With rising emotion, Rabbi
Tanenbaum asked his listen-
ers, "How is it possible that
the people of God can leave
their places of worship and
inflict upon one another the
most horrible destruction,
(and by doing so) destroy
God's image?"
Our task, he said, in a
world behaving increasingly
as a garrison, and accepting
that condition, is to "return
to our roots."
Jews, Christians and Mus-
lims, he concluded, must
"close the gap between what
we say we believe in and that
which we really live as Chil-
dren of Abraham."
A shouting match which
broke out at a workshop on
terrorism's local effects was
"only ten minutes out of a
12-hour session," Rev. Oscar
J. Ice of the Round Table told
The Jewish News.
It is an emotional issue,
"but the emotion didn't tear
us apart," he said. "Our con-
viction was this was one of
the most pressing issues. If
we don't learn to talk to one
another, we will only add our
psychic energies to ter-
rorism."
But according to the work-
shop's moderator, Rabbi
Richard C. Hertz of Temple
Beth El, the furor was caused
by Muslim participant
Donald Unis' "taking over
the floor."
Unis heatedly compared
Jews to Nazis:
"I could not get any Pales-
tinian Muslims to come here
today because they would no
more sit down and talk to a
Jew in Detroit than a Jew