Caravan Daily
NEW YORK – Muslim Peace Coalition-USA (MPC) has denounced the continuation of hateful statements by US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his campaign for their bigotry and for endangering the lives of Muslims and Brown immigrants in the US and of Americans in foreign lands. It has condemned the damage done to the US image and to the US business, educational and healthcare institutions by the extreme wing of the GOP.
The Coalition has announced that it is willing to take practical measures to counter the damage caused by the billionaire businessman’s bigotry by helping US institutions protect their immigrant and Muslim members and by repairing the damage to the US image in the Muslim world. American Muslims can and will act as a bridge between the Muslim world and the US and will fight the attempts by ISIS and the extreme right wing of the Republican Party to start a clash of civilizations.
The Muslim Peace Coalition is offering to help the US universities, hospitals, colleges, multi-national corporations and other institutions protect their employees and students as well as their business interests.
The Coalition is suggesting panel discussions, workshops and symposiums at the US institutions to address this crisis with the following aims:
- To address their fears and to comfort the Muslim employees
- To educate non-Muslim employees and managers who might be swayed by the Islamophobic propaganda
- To sensitize non-Muslim employees and managers to the international Muslim students’ and employees’ need for reassurance
- To address the non-Muslim H1 workers and immigrant employees who might feel targeted because they might be mistaken for being from Muslim countries because of their appearance or skin color
In a statement, the co-chair of the New York chapter of MPC, Dr Shaik Ubaid said: “The whole world is repulsed by Donald Trump’s Islamophobic and racist demagoguery. US bureaucrats and military leaders have pointed out that Trump’s hate speech will endanger the lives of Americans in foreign lands. Mr. Trump is a narcissist and an opportunist and does not care for American lives or American interests.”
He pointed out that Trump is not alone in jeopardizing the American lives and American economic and geostrategic interests. Other opportunistic politicians such as Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, George Pataki, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Marc Rubio and a lot of other politicians along with bigoted and or opportunistic media personalities, and extremist religious leaders, have been issuing and or disseminating xenophobic and Islamophobic statements which will cause anti-American hate to spread. It will also cause mental anguish to our H 1 workers, immigrant employees and foreign business partners, he said. Such hate speech will also drive the international students away causing great harm to our universities. Many non-Muslim immigrant workers and students will feel threatened because of their skin color, he warned.
However, Dr Ubaid described religious extremism as a human problem and not specific to any one religion or ethnicity. “We recently presented a panel discussion at the Parliament of World’s Religions at Salt Lake City, UT under the title: “Sharing the lessons from the intra-faith struggle against extremism.
Representative from Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism came together to share the struggle these faith-traditions are going through to combat extremism. They all also condemned the attack on Islam and Muslims by the politicians for immoral, unethical, short-sighted selfish reasons. Muslim Peace Coalition – New York is offering to help organize similar programs for institutions that might be interested in it,” said Dr Ubaid.
References:
US Muslim Coalition Slams Trump’s Hateful Rants; Asks Republicans to Dump Hate Peddlers
https://clarionindia.net/portal/muslim-peace-coalition-slams-trumps-hateful-divisive-rants/
Text of the proposal for the program committee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. This was approved and an informative and educational session took place on October 17,
PROPOSAL FOR A SESSION AGAINST RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND POLITICAL HATE SPEECH
FORMAT
A panel discussion under the category war, violence and hate speech.
Prevention is better than cure. This age old adage is true just not for physical illnesses but for the social illnesses that are leading to increasing hatred and even wars all over the world. No religion is immune from the cancer of religious extremities.
The extremist Muslim groups are well known but the other groups such as the 969 Buddhist movement that is spearheading the longest running genocide in the world in Burma; the RSS is the largest supremacist organization in the world with 6 million members in India and abroad; the Christian militias in the West and Lord’s Resistance Army which has kidnapped 66,000 people in Uganda, the extremist settler movement in Israel which has received more than 200 million tax-deductible donations from its US supporters, are involved in persecuting innocent civilians. These violent extremist movements are fringe groups and communicate with one another while the mainstream communities do not have the same level of inter-faith strategic coordination.
In this panel discussion, representatives of various religions will educate the conference about the actions that their spiritual or religious leadership is taking to combat, marginalize and prevent extremism and will also discuss the future challenges and the plans to meet them.
PRACTICAL BENEFITS
The panel will increase coordination between faiths in their fights against extremism and terrorism. This has very important practical implications as the different fates can learn from one another on the best strategies for marginalizing the extremists within the practical benefits will be global in reach and impact. Through this panel will also be able to show that it is factually wrong to suggest that Islam is the only religion which is causing or is beset with religious violence. This will help combat the Islamophobic rhetoric coming from some opportunistic and or bigoted politicians
PARTICIPANTS
Representative from Islam
Representative from Hinduism
Representative from Buddhism
Representative from Christianity
Representative from Judaism
