100 imams to commemorate Holocaust near Paris memorial site

Published on February 4, 2013

Some 100 imams will commemorate the Holocaust at a memorial monument near Paris.

French Muslim leaders in Israel hope to mend fences with Jews

Published on November 14, 2012

Standing in long, colorful robes and wearing traditional rounded hats, a group of men stood in reverent silence as one of their leaders placed a memorial wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum.

Morsi answers amen to imam’s prayers for destruction of Jews

Published on October 22, 2012

A video shows Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi saying amen to the prayers by an imam calling on Allah to "destroy the Jews and their supporters.”

Q&A with the 'Ground Zero' Imam

By Dennis Prager
Published on July 24, 2012

On July 20, Jewish Journal columnist Dennis Prager conducted a lengthy interview on his radio show with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, author of “What’s Right With America,” who is best known for his plans to build an Islamic community center, including a mosque, near the World Trade Center in New York. What follows is the transcribed text of that interview.

Latin American rabbis, imams visit D.C.

Published on March 29, 2012

A group of Latin American rabbis and imams met with U.S. government officials.

New York Imam talks peace in L.A.

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on May 10, 2011

Speaking at UCLA’s Royce Hall on May 4, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, whose planned Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan — the so-called Ground Zero mosque — ignited a firestorm of protest last summer, said that the killing of Osama bin Laden gave him hope. “This signifies the end of an era of terrorism,” Rauf told the largely supportive and diverse audience of about 600 students, activists and community members.

Why Congressman Peter King is making a mistake

Published on March 9, 2011

We are, respectively, an imam and an Orthodox rabbi. Last month, our two congregations initiated a series of joint gatherings to enable our people to get to know one another, and study our respective sacred texts together. We were motivated simply by the recognition that the histories and the destinies of our peoples are inextricably intertwined, and that in a vacuum of genuine personal knowledge and understanding of one another, terrible, regrettable things can occur. Ignorance is the oxygen that feeds suspicion, mistrust, and enmity, and relationship is the antidote.

The psychology behind the Ground Zero mosque

By Judea Pearl
Published on August 28, 2010

I have been trying hard to find an explanation for the intense controversy surrounding the Cordoba Initiative, whereby 71 percent of Americans oppose the construction of an Islamic Center and a Mosque next to Ground Zero. I cannot agree with the theory that such broad resistance represents Islamophobic sentiments, nor that it is a product of a recent “right wing” blitz against one Imam or another.

American Muslim leaders visit concentration camps

Published on August 17, 2010

Eight Muslim American leaders who visited concentration camps and met with Holocaust survivors signed a statement condemning Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.