A Rabbi and a Iman walk into a bar meeting…
Update: This Iman seems like one of the good guys.
He is a Muslim leader, yet he supports the French law that bans women from wrapping themselves in burqas. He denounces hatred of Jews, and he also recoils from the mingling of religion and politics, as well as from “wretched Arab nationalism.” He supports revolution in his home country, Tunisia, though right now he says that mosques there have “turned into hostages held by extremists.”
In an interview with Haaretz, Hassen Chalghoumi explains why he finds it important to visit a monument in Drancy that memorializes Jews who were sent to concentration camps; he also describes how his opponents relate to him, and why his life has been threatened.
