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Denver (JTA)— Beyond the mu-
tual suspicion and hostility, there
are issues on which Jews and
Muslims can make common
cause, representatives of the two
groups said at a recent conference
here.
The conference on "Women,
Families and Children in
Islamic and Judaic Traditions,"
was primarily an academic
one.
Professors of Islamic and Ju-
daic studies, anthropologists and
ethnographers, all presented pa-
pers on their own topics of ex-
pertise.
They spoke, for example, about
"The Status of Sephardic Women
in Salonika in the Period of 19th
Century Modernization" and
"Gendering and Engendering in
the post-Independence Novel in
Islamic Senegal."
More pragmatic issues were
addressed in a session titled
"Muslim-Jewish Dialogue:
Strategic Ways to Proceed."
According to Rabbi A. James
Rudin, director of interreligious
affairs for the American Jewish
Committee, the American Jew-
ish community and the emerging
Muslim community in the Unit-
ed States should work together
on public policy issues of mutual
benefit.
They include: issues under the
bioethics rubric, like assisted sui-
cide, organ transplant and sur-
rogate parenting; public
education; immigration and big-
otry.
There is also a joint stake in
fighting "the exclusivist agenda
of the religious right, whose lead-
ers want to make this a Christ-
ian America," said Rabbi Rudin.
"We have to say as loud as we
can that Jews and Muslims be-
long in America and that Amer-
ica belongs to us," he said.
Salam al-Maryati, director of
the Los Angeles-based Muslim
Public Affairs Council, spoke at
the same session about the sense
of vulnerability and victimization
that Muslims feel in
America,where the terms Mus-
lim, Arab and terrorist tend to be
considered synonymous.
The Muslim community in the
United States is relatively young
and small, about one-third the
size of the Jewish community
here.
"We are where the Jewish
community was 100 years ago,
with our handicaps, fears and
prejudices," said Mr. Maryati,
who left the conference early to
join President Clinton's en-
tourage to the peace treaty sign-
ing between Jordan and Israel.
Mr. Maryati said there is a
widespread perception among
American Muslims that Jews
control the media and politics,
and "that the Jews are out to at-
tack Islam."
The relationship between the
two groups in the United States
is colored, and in part shaped, by
events in the Middle East.
The rapprochement between
Israel and Jordan, and the his-
toric treaty with the Palestinians,
combined with Muslims' in-
creasing numbers in the United
States, have led to new interest
on the part of the Jewish com-
munity in establishing a rela-
tionship.
But, as was clear at the con-
ference, the tensions that con-
tinue to play out in the Middle
East impact developments on
American soil and feed the level
of mutual suspicion.
The FBI and Justice Depart-
ment are investigating some
Muslim groups in America in an
effort to stop money from the
United States from flowing to
Hamas, the terrorist group re-
sponsible for several recent ter-
rorist acts on Israeli soil.
Conference Joins
Arabs and Jews.
Mr. Maryati decried the Amer-
ican government's investigation
of Muslim groups as "part of a
Likud campaign" against Mus-
lims and celled it "a form of scape-
goating."
He said that if individuals are
suspected, then they, rather than
institutions, should be prosecut-
ed. "Once you start talking about
institutions you have crossed that
fine line to scapegoating religious
groups," he said.
Muslim-Jewish relations in
America are in their infancy, said
Rabbi Rudin, who called them
"the new frontier in interreligious
affairs."
Rabbi Rudin cautioned that it
will take a lot of work and a lot of
time to work past the mutual sus-
picion that is a natural outgrowth
of the years of enmity in the Mid-
dle East.
"Americans are always want-
ing a quick fix, but that doesn't
work in human relations," he
said.
It requires "an enormous
amount of sorting out, of un-
packing baggage," said Rabbi
Rudin.
Other conference participants
included Fathi Osman, a scholar
in residence at the Islamic Cen-
ter of Southern California.