Muslim Rep: We Can Get Along

There is no good reason for members of different faiths to not live side by side in peace. “We have so much in common,” Saleh Elgiadi, education and outreach coordinator to the Muslim community of the Spokane Islamic Center said Sunday. Elgiadi, 50, of Spokane, shared with members of the North Idaho Unitarian Universalist fellowship and other attendees the six articles of his Islamic faith and the five pillars of the religion. Elgiadi spoke at the Harding Family Center in Coeur d’Alene, laying out the pillars, such as praying five times a day, offering money to charity, which Elgiadi called “almsgiving,” fasting during the month of Ramadan, and making the pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in a lifetime/ David Cole , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

Question: Why do you think members of different faiths don’t live together side by side in peace more often?