Mindel wrote:
When you're a Muslim in a Jewish neighborhood, you thank Allah for the kosher butcher.
That's the main reason Brick Lane is now London's Bangaldeshi Capital - they settled there among the existing Jewish community for that reason.
The relationship between most Jews and Muslims here (Imams & Rabbis, Orthodox, progressive and secular) is pretty good. Most of our local Masjids and Synagogues have joint community programmes and often (respectfully) visit each others' places of worship.
In the same way that a small proportion of Americans who are drooling f
Ucking xenophobes get USA a bum rep around the world, so a handful of idiots get Islam and Judaism a crap name (usually with the contempt of their mainstream religious entities.)
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