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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
20 Sep 2005 06:10:11 AM |
| Object: |
Iqbal Sacranie |
Holocaust Memorial day is too exclusive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1573739,00.html
We must honour all victims of genocide equally, says Iqbal Sacranie
Tuesday September 20, 2005
The Guardian
The Muslim Council of Britain, along with other faith-based
organisations, received a consultation paper from the Home Office in
1999, proposing the establishment of a National Holocaust Memorial Day.
The MCB has always denounced the monstrous cruelty and inhumanity that
underpinned the Nazi Holocaust, as we clearly stated in our response:
"The MCB unhesitatingly and wholeheartedly supports the prime
minister's determination that the horrendous crimes against humanity
committed during the Holocaust are never forgotten." After the world
vowed "never again" at the end of the second world war, though, we have
seen the same barbarism again, against peoples in Vietnam, Cambodia,
Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and recently in Darfur. So we said that our
common humanity called upon us to also recognise the crimes perpetrated
against other people, and we called for the establishment of an EU
genocide memorial day. Such a day would help dispel the - frankly
racist - notion that some people are to be regarded as being more equal
than others.
Iqbal Sacranie
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