This is the Forward’s coverage of Islam, an Abrahamic monotheistic religion that originated in the Middle East, and its adherents, Muslims.
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News EXPLAINED: Will Trump Create a Muslim Registry?
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory has worried numerous minority groups, but perhaps none more than American Muslims. In the run-up to his January inauguration, many have fretted that the United States’ new leader might try to force Muslims to register with the government for monitoring purposes. Why is that? Is it legal? What are Jews doing…
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Opinion Get Inspired by the Muslim Woman Who Hid a Jew’s Yellow Star With Her Veil
In the wake of the election, hate crimes against Muslims have skyrocketed. Now more than ever, it’s our duty as Jews to stand in solidarity with and in defense of Muslim Americans. This is true because Islamophobic hatred is inherently an unacceptable injustice. It’s also true because we know what it is to feel targeted,…
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Opinion Israeli Muslims Want To Save the Muezzin — and So Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Israel’s Knesset has passed the preliminary reading of a bill that would bar mosques from using loudspeaker systems to amplify the muezzin, or Muslim call to prayer. The bill doesn’t actually say “mosques” — it says “religious institutions” — but that’s clearly a codeword for mosques, since they’re the ones that use powerful outdoor loudspeakers,…
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Community All Jews Should Register as Muslims: Because We Know the Horrors Of Religious Registration All Too Well
In a German Prisoner of War (POW) camp in 1944, the American Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds called upon all of the captured soldiers to stand with the Jews of the camp despite Nazi orders to separate. Edmonds, a Christian, feared for the fate of the Jewish soldiers if the Nazis were able to identify them,…
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News Will Trump Bring Jews and Muslims Together To Fight Back Against Bigotry?
Jews and Muslims have sometimes encountered difficulty working together due to splits over issues like Israel-Palestine. But after the election of Donald Trump, the American Jewish Committee and the Islamic Society of North America have announced a new advisory council to fight both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. “We have to show the administration that as American…
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Opinion On Election Eve, I Called Out Anti-Semitism Among Trump Supporters. Their Response? More Anti-Semitism.
During the days leading up to the election, and certainly during the day itself, there was a lot to be nervous about as a Jewish journalist. Trump’s supporters, especially those on the so-called “alt-right”, have taken it upon themselves to ramp up hateful, odious anti-semitism against Jewish journalists to a degree unprecedented in recent memory….
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News Israeli Ambassador Honored By ‘Anti-Islam Hate Group’
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer will be accepting an award in New York next month from an American organization that has been labeled an anti-Muslim hate group. The Center for Security Policy, which will be honoring Dermer with a “Freedom Flame Award,” is included in a watch list of hate groups compiled…
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News Divine Intersection: The Surprising Story of the Jews Who Became Sufi Muslims
At a burial shrine set in the rolling farmland of Pennsylvania, a group of Sufi devotees swayed in prayer, chanting the many names of God. The women, heads covered in loose shawls, sat on one side; the men, some clutching prayer beads, on the other. One woman, overcome with emotion, wept openly. At the center…
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