Sunday, February 25, 2007

Is This the Future of Jewish-Muslim Relations?


From the UK, an incredible success story, as reported in the UK's Independent:

The Jewish school where half the pupils are Muslim

King David, in Birmingham, is a state primary where the children learn Hebrew, recite Jewish prayers, eat kosher food and wave Israeli flags. So how come the majority of pupils are followers of Islam?

... half the 247 pupils at the 40-year-old local authority-supported school are Muslim, and apparently the Muslim parents go through all sorts of hoops, including moving into the school's catchment area, to get their children into King David to learn Hebrew, wave Israeli flags on independence day and hang out with the people some would have us believe that they hate more than anyone in the world.
Read the fascinating article in full here.

In some ways, this is no different from Israel, the Jewish State that has over one million Muslim Arabs among its six million population.

Two examples proving the point that - provided they are willing to do so - Muslims have no problems or impediments to living happily within a Jewish environment.

(Hat tip: Fiorelli)

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