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Striving To Coexist
Muslims preach harmony with other
faiths while remembering the Holocaust
through their visit to the camps.
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At the ISPU annual dinner Stephen Goldman and Suhail Kahn share
conversation about building bridges of understanding.
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Brenda Rosenberg
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20 November 18 • 2010
iN
he question I am asked most
often as an interfaith com-
munity activist: "Where are the
moderate Muslims? Why don't we hear
from them?"
On Oct. 30, more than 700 Muslims
gathered for the annual Institute for
Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)
dinner in Wayne County. Suhail Kahn
was the host. I want to share his opening
remarks before his introduction of the
keynote speaker, Rashad Hussain.
"Last August, Rabbi Jack Bemporad
of the Center for Interreligious
Understanding in New Jersey, Professor
Marshall Berger of Catholic University
and I led a delegation of imams and
Muslim community leaders to visit the
Dachau and Auschwitz concentration
camps.
"The delegation included the most
prominent religious leaders of the
Muslim American community, includ-
ing Imam Mohamed Maged, president
of the Islamic Society of North America;
Laila Muhammad, daughter of the
late Imam W.D. Muhammad; Imam
Muzammil Siddiqui, chairman of the
Fiqh Council; Imam Abdullah Antepli
of Duke University; and Imam Suhaib
Webb of the Muslim Community Center
in California. Additionally, U.S. Special
Envoy on Anti-Semitism Hannah
Rosenthal and U.S. Special Envoy to
the Organization of Islamic Countries
Rashad Hussain joined the group to
visit the historical sites of the worst of
humanity — Auschwitz, Birkenau and
Dachau — where millions of innocents
and many of the 6 million Jews perished
at the hand of their fellow men.
"The delegation toured the camps,
and met with survivors and with leaders
of the Jewish and Muslim communities
in Germany and Poland. At the end of
this understandably moving visit, the
delegation issued a strong statement
bearing witness to the tragedy of the
Holocaust, and condemned anti-Semi-
tism and Holocaust denial.
"Upon returning to the U.S., the del-
egation, bonded by the experience of
the trip, pledged to continue to work
towards fighting prejudice, bigotry and
to further multifaith understanding:'
Unfortunately, the only members of
the Jewish community that attended
the event were Stephen Goldman,
director of the Holocaust Memorial
Center/Zekelman Family Campus in
Farmington Hills, his wife Silvia, my
husband Howard and me.
It is critical to open up communica-
tion and build relationships between
our Jewish community and all com-
munities, but especially the Muslim
community — the community with the
deepest disconnect.
Stephen Goldman and I are hoping to
bring the voices from this groundbreak-
ing effort to our Holocaust Memorial
Center in the near future. ❑
Brenda Rosenberg is a Bloomfield Hills
resident.