Okay, here's a trip:
Visiting the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue in New York City, led by Rabbi Elie Abbadie, with a group of Muslims, Christians and Orthodox Jews, and hearing Daisy Khan speak.
Daisy Khan is the wife of Imam Faisal, who has been at the center of the Ground Zero mosque controversy.
She is interesting, engaging, real, and anything but threatening. That, she says, is because (according to her critics) she is practicing takia, i.e., concealing the truth - "faking us out," so that she (they) can "take over and impose Sharia on America" (basically, the same as the Moral Majority, I guess?).
The thing is, I believe her, and I'm willing to risk something on that belief. (I would add that, in 30 years of living among Muslims, I have never seen any teaching or practice that supports the accusation of takia. And I think I have some ability to judge character.
Anyway, here's a quote, among other things she said:
“we must not be held hostage by extremists.”
She was speaking of Terry Jones, but her words are equally relevant to Muslim and Jewish extremists.
If we can't distinguish between extremists and others, we are going to have a very hard time moving forward.
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