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Candidates Exploit Muslim-Jewish Divide

McCain and Obama insulting Muslims to gain favor with Jewish voters

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 26, 2008 6:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – The presidential candidates are ignoring—even insulting—American Muslims in the hope of grabbing the Jewish vote, write Salam Al-Marayati and Steven B. Jacobs in the Los Angles Times. McCain and Obama have on several occasions snubbed Muslims, who seem to be the victims of modern McCarthyism—just substitute terrorism for communism. It's a "disturbing trend" that must stop, write the co-members of an interfaith peace group.

“To be sure, the politicians aren't inventing a division between Muslims and Jews,” they write. “We acknowledge the tension between our communities created by the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. And yet it is also clear that Jews and Muslims should be natural allies in countering xenophobia and hysteria. We both suffer from scapegoating as fear works against common sense in our political culture.”

An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man walks past a house decorated for pilgrims returning from the Haj.
An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man walks past a house decorated for pilgrims returning from the Haj.   (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Two Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pass by Arab Muslim shopkeepers in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Two Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pass by Arab Muslim shopkeepers in the Old City of Jerusalem.   (AP Photo)
The vellum Gutenberg Bibles. There are two of them.
The "vellum" Gutenberg Bibles. There are two of them.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Rabbi Philippe Darmon, right, and Imam Mohamed , hold hands after singing  at the beginning of the El Gusto concert orchestra in France.
Rabbi Philippe Darmon, right, and Imam Mohamed , hold hands after singing at the beginning of the El Gusto concert orchestra in France.   (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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