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 During Ramadan, Jews and Muslims Share Dinner and Friendship — But National Effort Lags Behind
The group that gathered inside a South Brooklyn Jewish community center the evening of Monday, June 20, had trouble staying silent. Young children whimpered impatiently, their eyes on the tables of untouched food, and latecomers whispered excuses as they pushed through the crowded room. Only a man in a light-gray skull cap succeeded in capturing…
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Fast Forward Jewish Migrants Raise Few Hackles in Britain — Muslims and Roma Unwelcome
— The prospect of Jewish immigration raised the least amount of opposition among respondents to a British survey about attitudes to immigration. A study conducted by the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College in Oxford found that 7 percent of British people would allow no Jewish migrants into the United Kingdom, while 17 percent would…
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Fast Forward French Jews Outraged by Islamist Murder of 2 Cops
— French Jews expressed their outrage over the murder of two police officers, a man and his wife, at their home near Paris by an Islamist. Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, on Tuesday conveyed that sentiment, along with his solidarity with the family and security forces, on Twitter over the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Muslims More Devout Than Jews — but Less Than Others in Middle East
Israeli Muslims are more devout than the country’s Jews, Christians and Druze, but less so than other Muslims in the region, according to Pew research released Wednesday. About 68% of Muslims living in the Jewish state say religion is “very important” in their lives, a figure that is lower than in all countries in the…
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Fast Forward Jewish-Muslim CA Cafe Owners Deny Discriminating Against Hijab-Wearing Patrons
A California cafe founded and owned by a Jewish and Muslim husband and wife plans to countersue after being accused of discriminating against Muslim patrons. Urth Caffe, an artisanal coffee shop and restaurant with six Southern California locations, was accused in a suit filed May 2 of forcing seven women to leave its Laguna Beach…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Join Fight Against Anti-Muslim Discrimination
WASHINGTON (JTA) — From a bid to overcome resistance to building a mosque in New Jersey to defending a Muslim student at a military academy who wants to wear a hijab, Jewish groups this week joined efforts to stop anti-Muslim discrimination. Nearly a dozen Jewish groups are also backing legislation against banning entry to Muslims,…
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Fast Forward Islamists Hack Venice Jewish Community Library Website
Unknown individuals calling themselves the “Tunisian Fallaga Team” hacked into the website of the Venice Jewish community’s library and archive and posted pro-Islamist and pro-Palestinian messages on its home page. Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, the director of the Renato Maestro Library and Archive, called the incident Monday “in effect, a violent and targeted threat, of a…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Union Official Praises President Obama’s Mosque Visit
WASHINGTON — An Orthodox Union official said a visit by President Barack Obama to a Baltimore mosque was an appropriate message embracing diversity. “George W. Bush went to a mosque a few days after 9-11 to send the message the United States should stand by principles of religious diversity and religious freedom for all faiths,”…
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