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Maulana Jameel Ahmed Ilyasi is the President of the All India Organization of Imams of Mosques, who supervises over 250,00 imams serving an estimated 200 million Indian Muslims.The visitors arrived Wednesday for a six-day visit to meet the two chief rabbis, President Shimon Peres and foreign minister Tzipi Livni.Urging the Indian tradition of solving issues through dialogue, Maulan Ilyasi said:“Interaction with both Palestinian and Jewish sisters and brothers and their religious leadership will lay a solid foundation for future engagement.”He delayed his arrival in Israel to Saturday to face Muslim demonstrations against the visit at Friday prayers.The visit is sponsored by the Project Interchange Institute of the American Jewish Committee and the Australian-Israeli Council.Its other members are Dr. Khwaja Iftikhar Ahmed, Founder President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Shoora national consultative body of Indian Muslims, and inter Faith Harmony Foundation of India; Shri Aziz Burney, editor of the Urdu Daily Rashtriya Sahara and Indian government minister of state; Sheikh Manzour Ahmed, a former Jammu and Kashmir politician and ex-national vice president of the national Janata party; and Professor Siddiq Wahid, Vice Chancellor of the Islamic University of Science and Technology of Jammu and Kashmir.As in the days of Noah...
