Holocaust Museum in Washington DC

I take pride in being the first Muslim in the
World to commemorate Holocaust in 2006, and every year after that as a
step towards building cohesive societies, where we care for each others’
suffering and stand up for the other.  

I am committed to the Holocaust and Genocides Education and have been organizing the event for the last 7 years – www.HolocaustandGenocides.com . Our program is inclusive of all faiths.

 It was quite a reflective tour at the Washington Holocaust Museum for me … which I will write about in the coming few days.

Pluralist Mike Ghouse
sees opportunity for faith discussion after
Holocaust Museum shooting.

Carrollton resident Mike Ghouse was horrified
when he heard last week that a security guard
had been shot to death at the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

“I thought, ‘Why do people have hate?’ ” said
Ghouse, who 15 years ago founded the Foundation
for Pluralism. “That was my first response.”

 
The 57-year-old homebuilder and property manager
sees the tragedy as a way for people to discuss
their separate faiths, to forge understanding
and to defuse religious tensions. His
foundation’s mission is to embrace the
ecumenical ways of the world.

“There is not a faith we haven’t covered,” he
says.

 
Ghouse is a Muslim who originally emigrated from
the Bangalore area of India about 30 years ago.

“I will never claim my faith is superior to
others,” he said. “Every faith is beautiful to
me. The inability to accept the differences of
others causes conflict.”

 
Ghouse is a frequent-flier in cyberspace, and
many of his commentaries on ecumenical respect
can be found at

www.mikeghouse.net , on Facebook and on
Twitter. The multilingual Ghouse also started
talk shows on the radio geared toward the
Diaspora from India and Pakistan. And when
weekend worship comes, Ghouse visits services at
Muslim mosques, Hindu temples, Jewish synagogues
and Catholic churches.

 
His own daughter was so swept up by her father’s
pluralism.

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Muslims Condemn display of hate at Holocaust
Museum

http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2009/06/muslims-condemn-display-of-hate-at.html

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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a
writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, and cohesion at work
place. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers
pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in
Standing up for others
and a book with the same title is coming up. Mike has a strong presence on
national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on
Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to
the Texas Faith Column at Dallas
Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and
several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes all his work
through many links.