Nihad Awad is the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights organization.
Ismail Allison is a graduate of Howard University and a researcher with CAIR National.
Opinion: If the Hilton Corporation goes ahead with plans for a hotel on the site of a demolished mosque, they will be assisting the Chinese government in its campaign of cultural erasure, write Nihad Awad and Ismail Allison of CAIR National.