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Leaders Come
Together at Mosque To Denounce Terrorism
Imam Shamsi Ali and Rabbi Marc Schneier embraced
during a press conference at the 96th Street Mosque in NYC
After Sept. 11, 2001, the invisible victims of Islamic terrorism are other
Muslims, millions of people who are horrified by the thought that some of
their own could turn the words of the Quran into a justification for murder.
Now some of them are taking a stand against terrorism.
At the 96th Street mosque, there was something you don't see everyday - a
rabbi and an imam embracing, and then standing together in unity.
"These intended evils must be condemned, and I'm here to condemn it," said
Imam Shamsi Ali of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York.
"Any attack on a Jewish religious institution is an attack on any and every
religious institution," said Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Foundation For
Ethnic Understanding.
It was Imam Ali who suggested the joint statement of condemnation. He said
the very word "jihad" has been perverted.
"Life in Islam is so sacred, and any individual taking lives is basically
taking the lives of all human beings as the holy Quran mentions," Ali said.
No one knows for certain how many Muslims live in America. The United States
census doesn't collect data on religious identification, but estimates range
from 1 to 8 million.
But a study by Columbia University puts the number of Muslims in New York
City at 600,000, many of whom live and work in neighborhoods like one in
Brooklyn along Atlantic Avenue.
And whenever something like this happens, the thousands of good,
law-abiding, patriotic Muslims worry that once again, the stereotype of a
violent Islam is once again being perpetuated.
"We do feel that the coupling of religion and terror in terminology does
provide a negative image of the Muslim-American community," said Aliya Latif
of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
According to the Pew Research Center, fully a third of all Muslims in this
country are African-Americans who, like some of the bomb-plot suspects,
converted to Islam either in prison or in their urban neighborhoods. But
just because they share a religion with the bomb plotters, they said, does
not mean they share their violent beliefs.
Rabbi Schneier shared some letters with CBS 2 HD he'd received from the
Muslim community, including one from the Islamic Society of North America,
which said in part, "any form of terrorism is against Islam. We applaud law
and order authorities for being alert and detecting the potential threat."
May 21, 2009. CBS News
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