I get a lot of mails and stuff about Judaism. Many of them have a decidedly anti-arab feel to them. And there's that whole mess with Israel. When my Rabbi asked me about Israel I told him I wasn't sure. For me it represents a lot of hate and violence. It's all nice and dandy to talk about our homeland, our people returning Eretz Yisrael, but bombs fly into Sderot almost everyday. Yes, efforts are being made on both sides to come together, but the hate and violence are overwhelming.
Here's the thing though, until recently (in terms of the past 6,000 years) the Jews and the Muslims were pretty much best friends. In Spain for example, under Arab rulership, the Jews, Muslims and whatever Christians were cool enough, prospered and had a golden age of cultural blending and bunny feelings. And afterward, when the Christians kicked all of the cool people out of Spain, Jews and Muslims lived in other lands together and supported each other.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED????? If both sides (yeah, us too) could just pull our heads out of our asses suck it up and tell the radical nutjobs (who are such a small fraction of all the good people on both sides) to fuck off, the world would be so close to a utopia I'd have to go on a killing spree every other month just to keep people from being sensitized to misery.
So I will praise Allah and know that he is my Adonai. And I will support my Muslim brothers and sisters (not just because I find arab women attractive) just as I'd support any Jew (or queer kid, or african american, or disenfranchised individual). Because I know beyond any shred of doubt that Muhammad and Moshe are kicked back, enjoying a drink together in olam haba, the world to come.
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