An important and stimulating conversation between Dr. Reuven Firestone, the Regenstei|المزيد

An important and stimulating conversation between Dr. Reuven Firestone, the Regenstein Professor in Medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and Mrs. Raheel Raza, President and Founder of Muslims Facing Tomorrow and the Director of Interfaith Affairs for the Muslim Canadian Congress. January 15, 2019 at Westwood Kehilla in Los Angeles. Attorney, Soraya Deen, confronts Islamophobia and she also demands the end to patriarchy and misogyny in her community. Soraya insists that, “We can’t deny that an extreme ideology is living and thriving in some Muslim communities. Muslim women everywhere are read a Bill Of Rights that must conform to an epistemology of the 7th century. We must take serious cognizance of the quotidian struggles of Muslim women to be heard, to be relevant, to be taken as a solution. We must confront the tough issues that are crippling our community. We must recognize that all theology is contextual.” Westwood Kehilla’s former president Greg Smith, who moderated the discussion, wrote in an email to the Jewish Journal that both Raza and Firestone reinforced how important it is to not let hate against either Jews or Muslims go unchallenged. “The ultimate takeaway was that it’s too easy to ignore inappropriate comments when made in our presence,” Smith said, “and that the best way to combat the Jewish or Muslim ‘anti’s’ is to not let inappropriate comments pass uncontested.” - Ryan Torok of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

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