I'm a Muslim and I like Jewish people. Why is this seen as unusual?
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I hate that this has been my experience, but I can only tell you what I have experienced.  I don't know many Muslims in my everyday life, but the ones I know are good people, and I can't even imagine that they would hate Jewish people, or hate anyone.  But, like I say, I don't know many Muslims.  I am interested in religion, and I sometimes go to various religious chatrooms.  Almost ANY time I have ever gone to a Muslim chatroom, I have found people expressing intense hatred of Jewish people.  Of course, chatrooms do not tend to bring out the best people, for whatever reason.  So I'm hoping that this is just some sort of abnormal thing.\n\nBut quite honestly, I HAVE seen a lot of Islamic websites that have insults about Jewish people.  As you point out, these are not following the way of Islam.  Ok, and one last little tidbit is that there was a locally well-known doctor's office in my area where there was a Muslim doctor and a Jewish doctor who worked together.  They absolutely hated each other and this was plain to see.  I'm sure it was over some differences in medicine or something, but people just make assumptions.
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If you are a christian, a jew or a muslim, you do all worship the same god. Maybe it is time to examine your premises as to what a god, or your god, is, and why is it that you think it is involved in man's foibles - at least on a day-to-day basis.
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I am Jewish and it is a religion. Not a race.
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and mine is jewish,oivey
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It's not just you.  I have also witnessed this and it greatly disturbs me.  You can go to a Muslim chatroom almost any time of day and find people insulting Jews.  If one wants to really insult someone in those rooms, they'll call them a "Jew" or "Jew-lover."  I get so mad.  They habitually deny the holocaust, and yet believe in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which has been proven to be a fabrication.  \n\nEarly in the Prophet Muhammad's career, there was a Jewish tribe that made a treaty with him.  But they broke the treaty.  Of course, they were probably not being treated as equals since they never converted to Muhammad's new religion.  But this set a very bad precedent, unfortunately for the Jews.  Because the Muhammad then recited verses of the Qur'an which were directed against "the Jews."  Of course, this more than likely meant THOSE Jews from that one tribe who had broken the treaty, and not Jews in general.  However, there are various verses in the Qur'an that seem like they are applying more generally to all Jews.  And there are some very very negative statements in there against Jews.\n\nFor example, the Qur'an says that the Jews had received a revelation from God, but that they twisted it and changed it, and to punish them, God turned them into detestable apes!  There is a statement in the Qur'an about the Jewish nose, implying it is crooked on account of sin.  There are whole suras (chapters) in there just going on and on about Jews and it is really NOT positive.\n\nThere ARE positive statements in the Qur'an about Jews.  But I do not think it outweighs the negative ones therein at all.\nThere was a time when Muslims and Jews got along better - when the Jews were subordinate to the Muslims.  As long as the Muslims were over the Jews, the Muslims were ok with Jews.  But when the Jewish state of Israel was created, everything went way downhill.  The Palestinians saw it as a takeover and an infiltration.  (even though it was Britain that had owned the land before).\n\nThere is a deep rift and it will take a lot to heal it, I'm afraid.
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I, too, am a Jew, and I disagree with you.\n\nMy friend's mother is a convert, and she is about as Jewish a mama as you can get! It is as if she is the product of generations of Jewish ancestry.\n\nI never considered her "not as Jewish as the rest of us".\nNo one in our congregation ever alludes to her non-Jewish roots, because it is so unimportant. She is a vital part of our community, and Jewish to the bone.
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No, being Jewish is not a nationality, because there are Jews from many many nations around the globe. What ties each Jew to other Jews is our religion, our Faith, called Judaism. Had you asked him to show you his passport, it would not have read, 'Jew,' and even if the passport was from Israel, it would not always mean he was a Jew, because Israel has citizens who are Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, whatever.
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I hope no-one takes offence to your question. It is a valid one and you clearly state this as a generalisation and obviously understand that there is a huge variation in jewish appearance, but yes, there is some characturistics that are considered 'jewish'.\n\nI think it is as someone has already said, there is a geographical orrigination and historically jews have not married out of religion, although this is of course a generalisation in its self. So the gene pool has largely remained intact. Obviousy the genes for those characturistics have been carried through the generations and not been widely circulated among other religious backgrounds. Although again I stress those characturistics are not exclusively jewish and intermarriage has scattered them about into other cultures too.\n\nPerhaps even, many of those characturistic genes are recessive, and therefore generally appear in the more pure jewish families than the ones of more mixed race. \n\nBut I do dissagree with about the 'christian' look. I'm sure out of a line up of jews, christians, muslims, hindus, buddists and many other religions, that someone could pick out a christian. Generally speaking of course. I'm sure we could also find many traditianaly jewish or traditionally muslim looking people and actually find that thay are infact christian or buddist.
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I've asked this question before, actually. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AutS5JZA1SeAz4Wwe_TTd9rsy6IX?qid=1006053111285\nSeems to be a jewish tradition.
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I am Muslim, a convert from christianity. I understand fully, I have had the same problem. My mom is a christian and very pro-Israel. She knows that I am Muslim but she forbids me to wear a Hijab or openly practice my religion. She had threatened to kick me out of the house other times for how I vote in elections so, I don't debate my religion with her. I agree with what the others said here that it is those radicals that give us a bad name. But I also think it is because of just pure ignorance of the truth mostly this ignorance is spread by the media.  It even extends to just being Arab or supporting the Arabs. I am originally American but I think of myself as an Arabist. I was in 10th grade english and the teacher announced to the whole class that I was with the Arabs. I didn't expect that but maybe it was because the teacher was Jewish but the whole class looked at me and I thought that I was going to be beaten up by how some of the kids were looking at me. This was shortly after 9/11 too. But above it all, I found happiness, I am happily married to an Egyptian Muslim, and will be making the Hajj in November, Inshallah. Those cartoons were overly offensive and shows why there is still the whole rift between East and West. Regardless of what those people say or do, keep your head up high and never allow them to get to you. Their fate like everything else is in Allah's hands.
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It is not offensive.  The Jews I know do not mind being called Jews-including me.
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Jews are hated by some not for their religion but mainly becasue of the politics going around in middle east and occupation, violance, bulldozing of houses, terrorism etc. etc. Actually prophet of Islam, had a very good relationship with jews who were not fighting with him to get rid of him. He used to visit Jews when invited or when they are sick etc.
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Does liking matzo ball soup make you jewish? ---not so much...so you are fine watching Oprah.\n\nGood for you for noticing that you are secure with yourself....even though you may be a bit insecure about it.
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Good question. Perhaps it's because Islam appeared significantly later than the other two monotheistic religions.\nIt's the more embarrassing for Christians and Jews, as all three religions ultimately share the belief in the same god, whether he's called God Almighty, Allah, or Jahwe.\nOn the other hand, religion has become less and less important in countries with dominantly Christian and/or Jewish cultural roots, whereas laicism is something not very widespread in Muslim countries, where you'll find a much more significant connection between state and religion.\nAs Christians or Jews of an era where we are being educated in the rational ways of Enlightenment we're used to being able to make fun of our own religion, so we may feel we're entitled to make fun of other people's religion too.\nWhich isn't always funny.
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I cant agree more with you.You are so right,i dont think any muslim or jew can hate each other forget about killing,i've studied almost all the religion quite vividly and have understood that none encourages killing of innocent people or any people unless you have to defend your family or religion(say mosques,synagogues,temples etc holy places)To me hate is contigeous,no matter who you are if you have hate for something particular you'll see that at the end you'll be hating almost everything that you have around you and maybe you'll start hating yourself too.Hate is a big word..one might not like something with all his heart but he/she shouldnt hate it.Patience i believe is the best way to deal with stuff like this.Just because i've a jewish name or a muslim name doesnt make me a jew or a muslim....he/she is a jew or a muslim is someone who obeys everything in the religion or atleast tries to and completely avoid wut is forgiven.None of the religions in the world say that hate other religion,it's the lack of knowledge about their religion that they have grown into such beasts that they use their name of their religion to get benefit out of it.I'm a Muslim and i dont hate any jews or any christians or any human being.I practise Islam as a way of my life,not just as a religion and Alhamdulillah i try to enforce Islam in my life in every way i can.I dont feel any hatred towards anyone?why is that,is it because i am not a good muslim?I dont think so....i know a lot of people who r like me and thinks like me too.To me most of these killings r for political reasons and trying to gain benefits for some very few powerful individuals who influences these poor jews and muslims all around the world to pursue something they want to achieve in any way they can.Wa'salaam.May Allah bless you all.And Allah(God) knows best.
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not all of jews are bad people but most of them have some caracteristics that are not realy nice.for example they are so mean and mostly wicked.moslems beleive after a rang of bad sins god damned them.\nalso they are so selfish and think god has chosen them as highest men in the world.but we all know that man kinde are all the same for god .he created them.god likes people who are better not pay attention to their race.
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Jews and Catholics do not favor this because they know the other party may influence the one they care about. No one who believes their religion is correct wants to lose someone they care about. Also many find out as I did that this can lead to much hardship later in the relationship. Think about your future -church?, kids? family get together, or you may fall deeply in love only to lose out to these differences.