This news is disheartening. Denmark is lucky to have the coexistence advocate Özlem Cekic, who has dedicated her life to bringing people together through dialogue.
Every year she hosts a multi-cultural Ramadan dinner event, where she invites people who are normally in opposition to one another to share a meal.
This year, she brought Danish jews and muslims together at an event where both Imam Naveed Baig and Rabby Jair Melchior were invited as speakers.
… hate mail with accusations of her being Israel’s helper and some calling her “Hitler”. According to Özlem, the accusations come from her fellow Danish muslims.
I agree, Muslims have infinite reasons to be upset about the events in Gaza. But I believe, some may have overlooked, how many Danish jews are in opposition to Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu.
If we want peace, moderates must speak with moderates. The extremists will never talk, so only moderates have a chance of dialogue.
@randahl I’d like to comment that this could imply that Danish Jews should not be attacked because their opposition to Netanyahu. They are not Israeli representatives. Attacks against them or any other Jews anywhere is antisemitism. Period
@oakster I think you may have misread the intention of my post. No one has been attacked here in Denmark. No one has threatened to attack anyone here in Denmark. No one is arguing that anyone should be attacked.
All I am trying to say is, those who view all jews as genocidal nazis are making the same mistake as those who view all Palestinians as Hamas terrorists. Those views will not bring peace.
@randahl I agree and I didn’t mean they were actually attacked (though it would appear she was). I meant to say that your post might be read as making that connection, not that you meant that to be the case. It’s hard to be clear about everything in just a couple of sentences, but I try to
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