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- From: kgivon@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (karen lee givon)
- Subject: Re: Inquiry
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- References: <1992Dec17.110530.27933@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> <765332d4919401t196@witsend.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:57:23 GMT
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- In article <765332d4919401t196@witsend.uucp> "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com> writes:
- >In <1992Dec17.110530.27933@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, muskudar@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Michael Uskudarli) wrote:
- ># 1) I was told by a muslim that a muslim can eat anything that is Kosher for
- ># a jewish person. Ias this true? If it is I am dumbfounded. Thinking that for
- ># a person (muslim) who regards another person ( a jew) as an arch enemy
- ># and than to claim that since the torah was actually correct at first and
- ># than corrupted that they can eat what you can. Do you find this utterly
- ># weird?
- >
- > Not really, and neither dis the (VERY traditional) Egyptian family
- > we had as Thanksgiving guests a couple of years ago. They were
- > glad to get a meat meal in the wilds of North Alabama, and all we
- > had to do was leave the wind out of the recipes. Fair trade.
- >
- > It was sort of interesting, in many ways. We left the politics
- > off the agenda, in much the same way that my family did when I
- > was in my radical days; agreeing that we disagreed and it shouldn't
- > get in the way of a family reunion (Abraham, right?) They had
- > rather considerately done some research in advance and admitted
- > being surprised at the amount of shared customs, such as ritually
- > washing before meals. It really helped!
- >
- I was eating dinner once with a Muslim Arab friend of mine and we were
- discussing the similarities of Islam and Judaism. He quoted an old
- saying that he had heard in his country, Yemen:
-
- it was something like--Eat with Jews and sleep with Christians.
- Meaning that a Muslim can trust a Jew's food but cannot trust a Jew
- enough to sleep in the same house with him.
-
- -Keren
-
- ># 3) Is it true that in order to be a Jew, you must be born into it?
- >
- > This would have been most distressing to both Abraham and Ruth!
- >
- >--- D. C. Sessions Speaking for myself ---
- >--- Note new network address: dcs@witsend.tnet.com ---
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