MILWAUKEE — The leaders of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee issued a statement to “strongly condemn the recent series of bomb threats and other anti-Semitic acts that have besieged Jewish community centers and schools here and across the country.”
“Diverse leaders of good will and strong faith must stand side by side to oppose a shadowy rise of what must be termed evil,” according to the statement. “Hate and intolerance are rearing up like emboldened specters, threatening both our core, shared values and the well-being of a nation whose freedoms and opportunities have been a beacon that must not be dimmed.”
“With equal vigor, we abhor similar hate acts directed against Muslims and others who are seen as ‘different.’ The gunshots from a hate-driven assailant who slayed six Sikhs at a temple in Oak Creek nearly five years ago still echo in our collective consciousness. Images from a mass shooting of African Americans two years ago at a church in Charleston, S.C., remain vivid.”
The statement calls for individuals to live up to the teachings of their faiths and to the ideals that are essential to a free and stable democratic society.
For 47 years, the Interfaith Conference – whose member faiths and denominations now reach across southern and southeastern Wisconsin – has upheld the sacred dignity of every person, according to the statement.
“We call upon people of all faiths and philosophies to stand even taller with us now.”
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