Faith Scholar at Duke U. Issues Call for Muslim Community to Confront Anti-Semitism After Hostage Incident at Synagogue
“we need to honestly discuss the increasing antisemitism within various Muslim communities”
More people need to stand up and speak out like this man.
From Algemeiner:
Duke University Faith Scholar Issues Call to Deal With ‘Antisemitism Problem’ in Muslim Communities
A Muslim-American imam and academic at Duke University issued a passionate appeal to confront antisemitism in the Muslim community following the hostage situation at the Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.
Abdullah T. Antepli, an Associate Professor of the Practice of Interfaith Relations at Duke University, wrote on Twitter, “We North American Muslims need to have the morally required tough conversations about those ‘polite Zionists are our enemies,’ ‘The Benjamins!!!’ voices and realities within our communities.”
Antepli was referencing antisemitic statements made in December by Council on American–Islamic Relations official Zahra Billoo and by US Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019.
“We MUST!” he continued, “Without ands and buts, without any further denial, dismissal and or trivializing of the issues … we need to honestly discuss the increasing antisemitism within various Muslim communities.”
Antepli is also the founder and co-director of the Muslim Leadership Initiative at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
“Yes, we Muslims living [in] North America undeniably have an increasing antisemitism problem and seemingly we have yet to even begin to address the issue honestly, morally and accurately… but again we have to,” he said Sunday.
“I am really sick and tired of the overall defensiveness and tribal nature of our reaction to this alarming internal problem,” he stated. “We are better than this! We can no longer pretend the problems of antisemitism within us does not exist.”
The problem, he asserted, is “not going anywhere. Quite the contrary, [it’s] getting worse.”
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“Duke University Faith Scholar Issues Call to Deal With ‘Antisemitism Problem’ in Muslim Communities”
Did this guy just se the memo?
Discussing the “antisemitism problem in the Muslim community” is like discussing the “luddite problem in the Amish community.” You can’t remove something that is so existentially intrinsic that it defines the community.
Yes, let’s honestly discuss it, by first honestly admitting that a Muslim is required to hate Jews by both direct command in the Quran and indirectly by the requirement that a good Muslim imitate the excellent and eternal example of Muhammad himself.