New mayors meeting interfaith leaders at IHW

Detroit Metropolitan Interfaith leadership met with mayors of Dearborn and Dearborn Hts at IHW.

For the first time after two years of Corona crisis, the area interfaith leaders met in persons at the Islamic House of Wisdom to congratulate mayor Abdallah Hamoud, mayor Bill Bazzi, DH City Council chair hajj Dave Abdallah, Dearborn police Chief Issa Shahin and to express their support for the new leaders in serving our cities and communities!

The interfaith leaders and activists included:

Rev. Dr. Steve Bland, Dr. Bob Bruttell, Rabbi Asher Lapitan, Pastor Colleen Nieman, imam Dawud Walid, imam Salie, Rev. David Kosbo, Rev. William Dion, the head of Governer’s interfaith director, Ms.Karen Beck, pastor Jack Eggleston, , pastor Stephen Perrine, Rev, Adams, Imam Arif Huskic, Rev. Halim Shukar, pastor David Nellist, Dr. Mary Asel, Hajja Nawal Hemadeh, sayyed Bagher Mosawi, Mr. Bilal Hamoud the runner for MI House of Representative and IHW board members!

Imam Elahi welcomed the mayors and interfaith partners taking time despite of their busy schedule to address the faith leaders and answer their questions.

Imam Elahi honored the courage of the new mayors and called the the best reason to be hopeful and optimistic about the victory of democracy in our great country.

Imam briefly shared his 31 years of interfaith experiences in Metropolitan area and honored the memory of late Hajj Khalil Alawan and late Dr. Dan Krichbaum and admired the work of current interfaith leaders.

Mentioning the stand of late Dr. King and his dream lecture, imam called for acceleration of interfaith work on social justice and elimination of poverty, gun violence and other social evils.

Imam said we must care for Ukrainian refugees but not to forget the refugees on our own borders with Mexico, condemning the Russian aggression on Ukraine but not to forget the aggression on Yemen,Syria and Gaza and tragic beheading of 81 innocents in Saudi Arabia.

Imam concluded with the famous poem from the German pastor Martin Niemoller: “First they came for…..”

Following the presentations by mayor Bazzi, mayor Bazzi, Chief Shahin, the floor opened for interactions by interfaith comments, questions and recommendations!

Mayor Hamoud spent more time addressing the concern expressed by Pastor Colleen Nieman regarding: Homelessness and the Michigan Avenue Corridor -Sex trafficking in the region.

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