Friday, November 10, 2006

Muslims and Jews agreeing on something

From an NPR article:

ERIC WESTERVETL: Rabbi Yehuda Levin from Brooklyn, with the group called Jews for Morality, has been leading the effort here to get Jews and Muslims to join together to fight what he calls, quote, the moral terrorism of the radical gay agenda.

Rabbi YEHUDA LEVIN: This is not the homo land. This is the Holy Land. It's inappropriate here. Jerusalem is not a Greenwich Village, huge gay bar. It's Jerusalem, the Holy City.

WESTERVELT: Abbas Zocher(ph) is a 40 Year old Israeli Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, or parliament. The Muslim lawmaker doesn't agree with Jews on much, but Zocher has found common ground with Rabbi Levine and others in opposing homosexuality.

Mr. ABBAS ZOCHER (Israeli Knesset): (Through Translator) These people are sick and they should be treated in hospitals. Islam says people with this disease should not be out in the streets.