JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE and RESETTLEMENT SERVICE During the past three months, the following individuals have made contributions to Jewish Family Service and Resettlement Service. With sincere apprecia- tion and gratitude, WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: fatwa [decree] in February 1989 that obliges Moslems to seek him out and kill him. "No one will shed any tears" if Rushdie were tracked down and killed, says Dr Muhammad Ghayas, assistant director of the Moslem Institute: "The fatwa can never be withdrawn. There is com- plete consensus on this issue as far as Moslems are con- cerned." While the traditional Moslem leaders are vainly attempting to hold the line and steer a middle course between Islam and the West, it is the Teheran-inspired re- ligious radicals who are making the deepest inroads into the hearts and minds of the diverse, two-million- strong Moslem communities in Britain, seizing the in- itiative as well as the power and the influence. Their passionate message of devotion to Islathic cul- ture and tradition is devoid of conciliation and com- promise; rather, it is a "If the Moslem communities are taken over by people like Farrakhan, there can be no dialogue." Shimon Samuels clarion call to action, an at- tempt to tap the deep wells of disaffection among Moslems, who perceive themselves as disadvantag- ed, disenfranchised and humiliated in a hostile Western world. It is also an attempt to weld them into an iden- tifiable bloc which can exert an influence on their host societies: "Once we are organized," said Ghayas, "we will be able to exercise a lot more political power in all fields — political, social and economic. Then the policy-makers will then have to take our interests and aspirations into considera- tion." Professor Martin Mc- Cauley, a specialist in Moslem affairs at London University, believes that the clash between Islam and the West is inescapable and will dominate the political agen- da for the next 10 years, perhaps well into the next century. After the decline of Marx- ism, he told me, Islam will attempt to fill the ideological void. Moslems, he says, will claim that Communism was bound to fail because of its atheist roots and that Islam is now the dynamic ideology: "They already sense that the future will be better for them than the past." Conventional wisdom in the West has always held that exposure to modern, secular society would lead Moslems to abandon, or at least modify, the more ex- treme elements in their belief, elements which ra- tionalists regard as irra- tional. But that thesis has failed and now, says McCauley, "there is no doubt that fun- damentalism in on the rise." There can, he says, be no bridge between the West and Islamic fundamentalism. In the final analysis, he be- lieves, Moslems will opt to withdraw from Western in- fluences by establishing vir- tual states within states — "no-go" enclaves where they will impose Islamic law and foster Islamic tradition, ex- ercising complete, untram- melled control over their own communities. Against all the odds, Dr. Shimon Samuels, Paris- based director of the Euro- pean office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, believes that Jews in particular have a vital interest in continuing to make every effort to maintain a dialogue with Islam and help to bolster the modernists within the Moslem world. It is possible that Moslem communities will be "hijacked" by the funda- mentalists, but if that happens, he warns, the Jew- ish communities in the West are going to be."in a virtual state of war. If the Moslem communities are taken over by people like Farrakhan, there can be no dialogue. We are simply not going to be able to sit down and talk with them." While he strives to build bridges across ever-growing chasms, Samuels concedes that "if you were to poll Jew- ish communities across Europe you would find tremendous pessimism." McCauley, meanwhile, takes the longer view. "The Moslems," he says, "have been in Europe before." In 600 CE, they swept through North Africa and Spain. In 1683, they returned via the shorter route through Hungary and were stopped only when they reached the gates of Vienna. "Now we are witnessing the third great expansion of the Islamic religion. And where," he asks, "will it stop this time?" ❑ Marc Adelman Sandy Adler Susan Alterman Mrs. Ancell Anonymous Leonard Applebaum Bess Axelrod Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baer Saul Barlock Victor and Zena Baum Norman I. Bazell Dr. and Mrs. L. Berent Jim Berger Michael Berk Steven Berlin Delores Billes B'nai B'rith Metropolitan Detroit Council Mrs. Boron Mr. and Mrs. J. 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Raymond Zussman Jack Zwick We would also like to acknowledge the many generous contributions made to the Resettlement Service warehouse. *Although we try our best, we realize mistakes do happen. If your name has been inadvertently omitted, please let us know. Thank you for your understanding. Drs. Allen Berlin, David Cantor, Allan Emery, Milton Goldrath, David Lipschutz and Alfred Sherman are pleased to announce Lester J. Voutsos, M.D. will join them in the practice of Obstetrics and Gynecology 29255 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 200 Southfield, MI 48334 358-5900 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 31