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“Whether these volunteers are missionizing to olim or just doing the gardening, we should not be partnering with Messianics,” said Shannon Nuszen, founder and director of Beyneynu.
Islamic theologian Mouhanad Khorchide also censured equating “the beginning of the murder of millions of Jews with a raid.”
Amid Israel’s historic normalization process with Arab countries, more and more voices are challenging the identification of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as the Koranic Al-Aqsa, arguing that it is actually located in Saudi Arabia.
Students from Pakistan, Indonesia, Qatar and Afghanistan all tuned in to a course previously enjoyed only in an Israeli classroom.
“I have switched a lot of, uh, you know, I guess, culturally Jewish people. But being a practicing Jew, like, people who are religious about it, they are very difficult. I’ve had a hard time connecting with them in that way.”
Many see Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has existed for nearly 70 years and operates in 50 countries, as the precursor of Al-Qaeda and ISIS. A number of European and Arab countries have outlawed it, but Israel prefers to allow it to continue operating.
Demonstrations come after French President Emmanuel Macron said Islam is “a religion in crisis” and that there was a need for an “Islam of Enlightenment.”
“For evangelicals, the argument is that you’re commanded by God to vote for [the president] because he is the protector of Jerusalem,” says Ronald J. Edelstein.
The decapitation of 47-year-old Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb has authorities and the public in France up in arms • Thousands protest the violent act, reminiscent of the 2015 “Charlie Hebdo” massacre.
The assailant was shot dead by police when he tried to attack the officers while shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
The Egyptian military said the operations are part of an ongoing effort to fight terrorism along the country’s borders.
Noman Hussain, imam of ISM Brookfield in Wisconsin, was one of the religious leaders who took part in the “Interfaith Welcome Service.”
