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The Shoah Through Muslim Eyes

7/31/2017

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A Pakistan-born Muslim woman with a Ph.D. from a South African university who directs the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College, a New York City Catholic school, has written a pioneering and courageous book about the Shoah (Holocaust).

In Shoah Through Muslim Eyes, Afridi goes where few Muslim authors have ventured: a piercing cri de coeur delving into what she terms the “unprecedented” evil of Nazi Germany’s attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish people.
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Afridi, a faithful Muslim, is appalled, better, is ashamed of the horrific anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial that exists among many followers of Islam throughout the world. Indeed, she writes about her frustration and exhaustion when she encounters the false negative perceptions held by her co-religionists “…about Jews…the Shoah, Judaism and Zionism.”

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Evangelical Trump Supporters Hark Back to the ‘Good Old Days

7/25/2017

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By A.  James Rudin

I​ am constantly asked why, in last year’s presidential election, 81 percent of white conservative Christians voted for Donald Trump, a thrice-married, self-proclaimed womanizer whose personal behavior, religious practices, and lifestyle are far different than the majority of evangelical churchgoers. The answer is not hard to find.
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Trump’s winning mantra — “Make America Great Again” — was congruent with a wishful return to the Protestant hegemony that once existed in the United States, back in the Eden-like “good old days.”
In the recollections of many evangelicals, America was then a tranquil, moral land deeply rooted in a specific set of traditional Christian values: the shining city on the hill, an idyllic small-town nation dominated by a white male leadership group. 

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What the Six-Day War meant for Jews and Christians

7/22/2017

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(RNS) The 50th anniversary of the June 1967 Six-Day War has generated many speeches, articles and debates about the political, economic and military impact of that brief but history-changing conflict that pitted Israel against the combined armed forces of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq.

Far less attention has been paid to the war’s lasting effect upon Jewish religious thinking and belief. That influence cannot be understood without recounting the profound sense of dread that gripped both Israelis and Jews throughout the world in the tense weeks before the war began.

Each day in late May and early June 1967 was filled with ominous press reports and TV images of various Arab leaders mobilizing their forces to attack Israel.

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