Going through listverse.com, i saw this article and remembered how an hausa neighbor sheltered christains and igbo in my street during Sharia war in kaduna.
Listed here are ten notable times we ve shown we are one irrespective of the religion:

1) Syrian Muslims
In 1915, the leaders of the declining Ottoman Empire decided
they wanted a “Turkey for Turks” and began their own
program of what is now called “ethnic cleansing.” They
targeted the region of Armenia, where approximately 2.5
million Armenian Christians lived. The systematic massacres,
seizures of property, and deportations, which claimed more
than a million lives, have become known as the Armenian
Genocide.
There was very little international outcry about the atrocities,
and no nation intervened on behalf of the Armenians.
However, there was sanctuary given to them in Syria, and
especially the city of Aleppo. Syria’s population consisted
mainly of Arab Muslims, but Syria was a region where
Muslims, Christians, and Jews had a long history of peaceful
coexistence. They welcomed the Armenians and offered the
refugees a safe haven .
It is a terrible irony that, starting in late 2012, hundreds of
thousands of Syrians have become refugees, escaping the
violence of the terrorist group ISIL . The international
community is still struggling with the best way to deal with
this crisis, but Armenian communities in Europe, Canada, and
the United States have become advocates for the descendants
of the Muslims who rescued them a century ago.

2) Refik And Xhemal Veseli
Albania is another European nation where Christians,
Muslims, and Jews have lived together in peace for a very
long time. A good example of this can be found in the story of
a 17-year-old Muslim youth, named Refik Veseli, who worked
as an apprentice to Jewish photographer Moshe Mandil in
Tirana. When the Nazis occupied the country in April 1941,
Refik realized that Moshe was in danger. Refik took Moshe,
his wife Ela, and their two children with him to his parents’
home in the remote mountain village of Kruja .
Refik’s brother Xhemal had also befriended a Jewish family,
the ben Yousefs, in Tirana, and also brought them to Kruja for
safety. The two families remained safely with the Veselis
through many dangerous situations until after the war.
The courage and kindness of the Veselis is only one of many
stories of Albanian Muslims sheltering Jews according to their
honor code of besa , which literally means, “to keep the
promise.” Among other things, this code requires Albanian
Muslims to offer sanctuary to all refugees and is the subject of
the 2012 documentary Besa: The Promise .

3) The Greek Bishops
Greece is a place where Orthodox Christians and Jews had
lived together in peace for centuries. This was shown in the
official letter of protest that Archbishop Damaskinos and 27
prominent Greek leaders signed after the Nazis deported many
Jews from Greece. The letter said, in part:
In our national consciousness, all the children of Mother
Greece are an inseparable unity: they are equal members of
the national body irrespective of religion. [ . . . ] Our holy
religion does not recognize superior or inferior qualities based
on race or religion, as it is stated: “There is neither Jew nor
Greek” and thus condemns any attempt to discriminate or
create racial or religious differences. Our common fate both in
days of glory and in periods of national misfortune forged
inseparable bonds between all Greek citizens, without
exemption, irrespective of race.
The archbishop published the letter and quietly instructed his
churches to issue false baptism certificates to Jews to hide
their identities. When threatened with a firing squad by the SS
commander for Greece, Damaskinos said, “According to the
traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, our prelates are
hanged, not shot. Please respect our traditions!”
Just as inspiring is the example of Bishop Chrystomos and
Mayor Lucas Karrer of the island of Zakynthos, where 275
Jews lived. When the Nazis demanded a list of the names of
all the Jews on the island, the bishop responded with a letter
that had only two names: his and the mayor’s. The Nazis
searched the island, but the population had successfully
hidden all of the Jews.
When the island was struck by a devastating earthquake in
1953, Israel was the first nation to send relief. Along with the
help came a letter reading, “The Jews of Zakynthos have
never forgotten their Mayor or their beloved Bishop and what
they did for us.”

4) The Denmark Rescue
There is a commonly told story about the Danish Jews and
the things their countryfolk did to protect them. The Nazis
occupied Denmark in April 1940. Sometime after that, the
story goes, the SS regional commandant went to King
Christian X and demanded that all Danish Jews be required
to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes so they could
be easily identified. The Nazis were shocked when the king
appeared in public a few days later wearing a yellow star on
his clothes. He encouraged all Danes to follow his example
so there would be no way to distinguish Jew from Gentile in
Denmark.
There was also a mutual resistance to the Nazis and their
occupation, and Danes of all religions participated in acts of
resistance and sabotage. In September 1943, faced with the
Allied advance, the Nazis decided to deport all Danish Jews to
concentration camps. Learning of this, the Danish Resistance,
aided by much of the population, moved quickly to organize
an evacuation. Jewish families were hidden in private homes,
churches, and even the properties of the Danish royal family
while Danish officials used all manner of delaying tactics to
prevent searches. Through the month of October, boats,
mainly fishing vessels, were used to ferry 7,200 Jews and 700
Gentile family members to safety in neutral Sweden, making
this the largest rescue of Jews from occupied Europe in World
War II.

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5) The Paris Grand Mosque
There are many stories of heroic groups and individuals who
risked themselves to shelter Jews from the Nazis. One of the
most unexpected is that of Si Kaddour Benghabrit, the founder
and rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris and his community.
The mosque was built in 1922 to honor the Muslim nations of
North Africa who had helped France in World War I. The
Nazis occupied Paris in June 1940. In July 1942, they
arrested 12,884 Jews, including 4,115 children, with the plan
to send them all to the Auschwitz death camp. However, the
mosque provided a natural safe haven. The Sephardic Jews
from North Africa spoke Arabic and shared many of the
cultural habits of their Muslim neighbors. With a little acting,
they could easily pass as Muslim Arabs. The mosque was a
place where Jews, and resistance fighters could rest, bathe,
eat, and find a temporary sanctuary from the Nazis.
The historical records are sketchy, but one unconfirmed
account suggests the mosque may have sheltered as many as
1,700 people, mostly Jews, from arrest during the war years.
Most historians believe the mosque may have helped a total
of around 100 Jews.

6) Corrie Ten Boom
Corrine “Corrie” ten Boom was a Dutch woman who is
honored by the Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority as one
of the Righteous Among the Nations for her work in rescuing
Jews from the Nazis during World War II.
Corrie and her family were members of the Dutch Reformed
Church, which taught that the extermination of the Jews was
an injustice to their fellow human beings and an affront to
God. She took this to heart and worked to help and protect
her Jewish neighbors any way she could. She worked out of
her family home in Haarlem, the Netherlands, converting it to
a safe house where Jewish refugees could hide until they
could be smuggled out of the country to safety. She gives a
riveting account of this in her book, The Hiding Place. She
rescued nearly 800 from the Holocaust.
On February 28, 1944, the Gestapo raided the ten Boom
house. They didn’t find any of the six refugees then hiding
there, but they arrested Corrie, her father, brother, both
sisters, and other family members anyway. She and her sister
Betsy were transferred to Ravensbrueck concentration camp,
where Betsy died. Her father also died in a different prison.
Corrie ten Boom was released as the war came to an end.
She returned to her home and worked for causes of
reconciliation and peace until her death in 1983.

7) Tahrir Square
In late January 2011, Tahrir Square in Cairo became an area
of intense protest during the Egyptian Uprising . The
revolution, which ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak from power,
was remarkable for its lack of violence. It also produced
striking images of Egypt’s Muslims and Coptic Christians
working together to create a better future for their country.
The Copts are a Christian sect which has been in Egypt since
ancient times. For most of their history, the relationship has
been fairly good, but there have been tensions in modern
times. Both the Mubarak government and the Muslim
Brotherhood have been accused of stoking anti-Coptic
sentiment in Egypt for their own ends.
But in the demonstrations in Tahrir Square, there was a
remarkable degree of cooperation and goodwill between the
two faiths as Muslims and Christians stood together to
demand a better Egypt. The most dramatic evidence of this
came on Friday, February 4, which protesters referred to as
the Day of Departure. When Muslims spread their mats for
midday prayer, Christian protesters joined hands to form a
protective circle around them. Christians and Muslims came
together to protest the government, with the crescent
embracing the cross becoming a popular symbol in Tahrir
Square .
Events since the uprising have shown that Egyptian Muslims
and Christians have a long way to go to reach peaceful
coexistence, but Tahrir Square is a reminder that there are
many people of both faiths who long for that day.






The Shomrim
Since 2008, the Orthodox Jewish community in Stamford Hill,
London (some of whose members are pictured above), had
been protected by the Shomrim, a Jewish citizen’s patrol that
works with police to report and prevent crimes. In 2013, the
group came to international prominence when they expanded
their patrols to protect Muslim neighborhoods as well.
The change came after a spike in anti-Muslim violence
following the 2013 murder of soldier Lee Rigby by Muslim
extremists. The violence included the fire-bombing of several
mosques. Concerned about the ability of police to safeguard
Muslims, local councillors from Hackney, North London,
approached the Shomrim, who were well-organized and
located close to the Muslim areas.
They were happy to help. As Shomrim member Shulem Stern
told the AFP, “The local Muslims and local Jewish people do
so much business together. In religious aspects as well there
are loads of similarities. Also, because we’re visible and
suffered a long history of hate crime, we’re very alert to
anything unusual.”
When the Shomrim—who take their name from a Yiddish word
for “guardians”—first organized, there was a fear of
vigilantism, but they have proven to be valuable allies to the
police, acting as their eyes and ears. Wearing stab-proof
vests with the word SHOMRIM emblazoned on them over their
traditional Orthodox clothing, they have become a welcome
presence and a symbol of hope to Londoners of all faiths.

9) The Oslo Synagogue In February 2015, over 1,000 Norwegian Muslims assembled at the only functioning Oslo synagogue. They held hands to form a protective line around the building and chanted, “No to anti-Semitism. No to Islamophobia.” The demonstration was a symbolic show of support and peaceful coexistence. It came one week after a shooting at an event promoting free speech in a Copenhagen synagogue. Danish-born Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, the son of Palestinian immigrants, killed two people, apparently as a hate crime, but Oslo Muslims wanted the nation to know the troubled young man was not reflective of their community. “Humanity is one and we are here to demonstrate that,” organizer Zeeshan Abdullah said at the event. “There are many more peacemongers than warmongers. There’s still hope for humanity, for peace and love, across religious differences and backgrounds.”
10) Christians And Muslims In Cameroon Cameroon is a central African nation where Christianity and Islam have lived side by side in relative harmony for generations. Now, members of both faiths are joining forces against the radical group Boko Haram, which wants to establish an extremist Islamic state in the region. Since Boko Haram has attacked both churches and mosques, the people of Cameroon have come up with a unique strategy. When Christians are at worship, Muslims stand guard over their churches. When Muslims are at prayer, Christians protect their mosques. It’s a new tactic, but the good relationship between the faiths goes back a long way in the country. Joseph Klofou of the Protestant Church of Cameroon put it this way: “ I feel frustrated seeing my brothers and sisters dying. I must act while praying to God to send his angels and warriors to fight Boko Haram because he is the merciful God of armies.” Djafarou Alamine of the central mosques expressed a similar sentiment: “I am out to fight because Boko Haram is a group of bad people. Islam condemns all that they have been doing to both Christians and Muslims who are all God’s creatures even though they have religious differences.” These religious leaders and the people they serve have chosen to take a brave stand for each other and against violent extremism.

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