Muslims commiserate with Christians over Charleston massacre

chika ebuzor

June 21, 2015 5:44 PM

I ask Muslims across America to pray for healing for our nation, to make collective dua that racist attitudes will cease and desist.

Ramadan.

Keeping the tenets of Islam, and in the spirit of Ramadan, Muslims in Baltimore, have called for a day of prayer, to commiserate with the church in Charleston.

You will recall that last Wednesday, Nine people were killed by a lone gun man, in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Caroline.

In an official statement, Zainab Chaudry, Outreach Manager of Maryland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said "As Muslims across America observe the month of Ramadan, we urge communities to reflect on the need to defeat hatred with tolerance, to seek justice for those murdered and to pray for peace and healing for grieving families and communities.”

Adding that 'The best time to make supplication is when we are fasting and in sujood. I ask Muslims across America to pray for healing for our nation, to make collective dua that racist attitudes will cease and desist.'

The Chaplain for Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Baltimore City Police Department also said 'We need heavy, united prayer for an end to racism.'

Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) also condemned the attack, through their website, saying 'Race-inspired terrorist attacks against sacred spaces of African Americans, particularly churches, has unfortunately been a continuous part of African American religious history since the late 1800s when Black Christians separated from White denominations due to racial hostility and formed their own churches.'

Muslim organisations have paid condolence visits to the church.

chika ebuzor