In behalf of Muslims and the World Muslim Congress, I condemn the malicious rejoice by some Palestinians over the cold blooded murder of the Fogel family in Israel.
A few exchanges on the net prompted me to add the following;
Bad people are among all of us without exception, acknowledging bad Muslims, bad Indians, bad Israelis, bad Palestinians, bad Jews or bad Americans is the right thing to do, denying takes away the credibility of information.
The shameless score keeping must be understood to break they cycle of violence. The shameless rejoice by a few Palestinians is not acceptable, and I sincerely hope, Netanyahu will not bomb the entire Gaza strip to avenge this and then they will fire the rockets… it is to the advantage of the powerful to break the cycle of revenge.
A friend wrote, “Jewish Israelis do not do that too Muslims” and I wish that were the case. I asked him to look up Jerusalem post, Haaretz and the writings of Jewish humanitarians to find a different story.
I humbly request the right wing Jewish Americans and the right wing Muslim Americans not to start a campaign of hate and counter hate, but instead break this cycle. Both sides can dig up trash and throw at each other, for what? So they can do more of it?
I ask the shameless Media vultures not to feed on these hateful incidents and talk for a whole week until they find another corpse; their food.
Mike Ghouse is the founder of America Together foundation and Islam Together Foundation and is committed to building cohesive societies offering pluralistic solution on the issues of the day. His work is indexed in 4 websites and 21 Blogs at http://www.mikeghouse.net/