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Reuven Firestone

Reuven Firestone is professor of medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, and Co-director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement.

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Religion Dispatches
“I know that not all Christians are right-wing extremist terrorists, but why are all right-wing extremist terrorists Christians?” This is the question I’m never asked. But as somebody who actually…
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Religion Dispatches
In an interesting new development, the New York Times reports that the Saudis are making a shrine for a violent, intolerant and bigoted sheikh, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, in Dir`iyyah, near the…
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Religion Dispatches
Lurking behind suspicion about the new Islamic Center planned to be built near Ground Zero is something much more ominous than would appear.
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