[ALBSA-Info] Fw: Imam Ismail to Pres. Bush

[Agron Alibali]

Subject: Imam Ismail to Pres. Bush


ALBANIAN ISLAMIC CENTER 
19775 HARPER AVENUE 
HARPER WOODS, MI  48225 


September 28, 2001 


The Hon. George W. Bush 
The White House 
Washington, DC  20500 

Dear President Bush: 

The Albanian American Muslim community strongly condemns the terrorist attacks on the United States, and we grieve for the victims of this senseless tragedy.   

The horrific acts of violence committed on September 11, 2001 constitute a form of injustice not tolerated by Islam.  Islam calls for the faithful to follow a path of peace and compassion.   But those who have perpetrated the evil attacks on America have chosen to follow a path of violence and hatred that is blasphemous to Islam 

The majority of Albanians are of the Islamic faith.  We ask of fellow Muslims throughout the world to remember that it was the United States that rescued Albanian Muslims from ethnic cleansing in Kosova and intervened once again on behalf of Albanian Muslims in their fight for equality in Macedonia.   We will be forever grateful to the United States for coming to the aid of our Albanian brothers and sisters in the Balkans.   

Respectfully, 

Imam Vehbi Ismail 
Religious Leader of Albanian Muslims 
In the US and Canada 

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