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...Leone can offer for export. Like some 70% of Sierra Leoneans, he is a Muslim. But unlike nearby Nigeria, riven by sectarian violence, "in Sierra Leone there is no religious bigotry," Kabbah says. "This is one of the things of which we're very proud." Given the country's interfaith harmony, mineral riches, abundant natural resources and a once-vaunted educational system that boasted the first university in sub-Saharan Africa, Kabbah's promise to return it to its past glory seems less quixotic than Sierra Leone's current war-scarred state would suggest. Age, says the 70-year...
...DIED. DAVID ASSEO, 88, Chief Rabbi of Turkey and advocate of interfaith tolerance; in Istanbul. Asseo was the leader of Turkey's small Jewish community for 41 years, and nursed it through the 1986 terrorist attack on Istanbul's Neve Shalom Synagogue in which 22 people were killed...
...sympathies, it is smart politics to make friends with his friends--even if you disagree with them on every subject other than Israel. "Evangelicals have a unique role to play with this Administration and in the Republican Party that Jews can't," says Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, who runs an interfaith alliance. "Jews today see Israel's survival at stake, so they are more willing to put aside domestic concerns." In this view, Evangelical support reflects many factors: shared security interests, a desire to atone for past persecution of Jews, and deep, shared roots in the Book of Genesis. "Our primary...
...direct fund transfers,” supporting of schools “encouraging children to become suicide bombers” and enabling it “to recruit suicide bombers by offering support to their families.” But in the end, the organization that benefited from the interfaith fundraiser was not HLF, but rather the non-sectarian Red Crescent, which is a member of the International Red Cross. Yasin has said that the Red Crescent was a more appropriate recipient, because the charity effort was interfaith...
...more points about Zayed’s so-called anti-Semitism and support for terrorist groups: during his tenure as president of the Islamic Society, he arranged for several dialogue groups with Hillel, and HIS also started its regular interfaith dialogues between itself, Hillel and CSA, which have continued through to today,” wrote Rita Hamad ’03, former president of the Society of Arab Students (SAS) and a close friend of Yasin’s, on the Eliot list. “And he defended the HLF based on his work with them in Albania...