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On September, 29th, in Ukraine there was commemorated the memory of Babi Yar victims. This day in 1941 in a stow in Kiev outskirts took place mass executions of peaceful population and war prisoners. The most of victims were shot there in the period since October, 1941, till October, 1943.

The all-Ukraine Association of Social Organizations "Аlraid" and the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine "Ummah" express their condolences concerning this mournful date. Destruction scales of mainly peaceful population in Babi Yar terrify. Life of each person is holy and inviolable; and it is impossible that at least the majority of victims of Babi Yar of different nationalities committed something that would justify their cruel execution.

It is necessary to mention inaccuracy of a stereotype that xenophobia is peculiar to Muslims and they are inclined to be at odds with Jews only for their nationality and religion.   Mass destruction of the population   In total, according to different calculations, in Baby Yar in 1941-1943 Germans shot from 70 to 200 thousand persons — Jews, Gypsies, Soviet active workers, the OUN members, and others.   Nazis weren't the first in their mass destruction of people on this territory. It is enough to remember reprisals and mass deportations, famine of 1932-33 … If inhabitants of Kiev, and all inhabitants of the USSR, were not accustomed to ordinary character of mass terror by the Soviet power within several decades, destroying people with an active civic stand, — would the Kiev Jews tacitly go to Babi Yar at consent of other part of the population?

Germans masked their intentions under the slogans of "the new order", even the text of announcements contained the words about inadmissibility of robberies of the property left by Jews under the threat of execution. It created order and safety illusion.   That is why researchers emphasize that the main lesson of the tragedy of Babi Yar is the appeal about inadmissibility of degradation of a human society to livestock level. In this tragedy there was no heroism — there was a slavish humility. And it is not important, what it was caused by: self-deception, worship to someone's power and military strength, uncomplaining submission to representatives of the power whoever they were, or the restrained expectation of a sentence of destiny — its consequences are threatening.   Islam and the "Jewish issue"

Islam does not distinguish people on nationality. "And among His Signs is the sleep that ye take by night and by day, and the quest that ye (make for livelihood) out of His Bounty: verily in that are signs for those who hearken" (The Holy Quran, 30:22), "O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things). " (The Holy Quran, 49:13). The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) stated, "There is no difference between the Arab and the non-Arab, between white and black, and people are equal among themselves as a comb teeth" (As-Sarhasi).   Moreover, Muslims love and believe in God's prophets: Isaak, Iakov, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, John, Jesus (peace be upon them) who were Jews. One of the mothers of all Muslims, the wife of the God's Messenger Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), Safiya, was the Jew. Among the Prophet's companions (peace and blessings be upon him) were the Jews, for example, Abdullah ibn Salam (may Allah be pleased with him).

And though Muslims reject the thesis about "the right for returning to Palestine" as organized action of all Jewish people — at the same time it is emphasized that it is natural, that the Jews can freely move, choose for themselves a permanent residence, as well as all people on the earth, but thus without their encroaching on freedom and land of others. Fourteen centuries ago the Muslims allowed the Jews to reside in any place of their state, except Jerusalem, as that was demanded by the Jerusalem patriarch. This requirement of Christians was cancelled only during the epoch of the Ottoman Caliphate, and since then the Jews could reside in Jerusalem, too.