Washington Post, December 21, 2006:
Local Muslim leaders lit candles yesterday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate Jewish suffering under the Nazis, in a ceremony held just days after Iran had a conference denying the genocide.For stating the truth emphatically to refute the mass fraud of Holocaust denial, a Good Crabbing Award and Crablaw's best wishes upon his pilgrimage to Mecca to Imam Mohamed Magid.
American Muslims "believe we have to learn the lessons of history and commit ourselves: Never again," said Imam Mohamed Magid of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, standing before the eternal flame flickering from a black marble base that holds dirt from Nazi concentration camps.
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[Sara] Bloomfield, the museum director, noted that Magid delayed his trip to Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage by a day to attend the ceremony.
"That's a pretty strong statement," she said.
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