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jan
20 2010
Syria's Mufti: Islam commands
us to protect Judaism

Syria's foremost Muslim leader
declared on Tuesday that Islam commands its followers to protect
Judaism, .
"If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews
heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic," Sheikh
Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was quoted as telling a
delegation of American academics visiting Damascus.
Hassoun, the leader of
Syria's
majority Sunni Muslim community, also told the delegates that Islam
was a religion of peace, adding: "If Mohammed had commanded us to
kill people, I would have told him he was not a prophet."
Religious wars were the result of
politics infiltrating systems of faith, he said, asking:
"Was Moses of Middle Eastern or European descent? Was Jesus a
Protestant or a Catholic? Was Mohammed Shi'ite or Sunni?"
According to the Mufti, the conflict between Israel and its Arabs
neighbors has nothing to do with an Islamic war against Judaism.
"Before you got American citizenship, and I got Syrian citizenship,
we were all brothers under the dome of God," he said.
Jews had once lived in Syria peacefully and with fair treatment, he
added, explaining that his own grandfather had a Jewish partner.
"Jews lived in Syria for years and they still have a role in Syrian
society," he said
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