{"id":163,"date":"2007-09-10T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2007\/09\/wiesenthal-center-starts-websi.php"},"modified":"2007-09-10T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T16:36:23","slug":"wiesenthal-center-starts-websi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2007\/09\/wiesenthal-center-starts-websi","title":{"rendered":"Wiesenthal Center Starts Website About Judaism for Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><br \/>\nNew York &#8211; The Simon Wiesenthal Center has launched a multilingual Web site whose main purpose is to inform Muslims about Judaism through a forum that allows visitors to post live questions in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Bahasa and English.<br \/>\nThe Web site, http:\/\/www.AskMusa.org, which means Ask Moses in Arabic, also will offer essays about Judaism by Jewish scholars and authors.<br \/>\nThe concept for the Web site was developed by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based organization that focuses on Holocaust remembrance and human rights.<br \/>\nThe center said Cooper came up with the idea after meetings with imams and other Muslims in Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Indonesia and India showed him that many Muslims &#8211; even highly educated ones &#8211; knew very little about the most basic tenets of Judaism.<br \/>\n&#8220;In an environment where the current perception of Jews is largely shaped by the most extreme elements,&#8221; Cooper said in a statement Monday, &#8220;we have to reach out so that the truth about Jews and Judaism is readily available to Arab and Muslim societies.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Wiesenthal Center said in a release that the Web site was &#8220;a new front in the digital era in the fight to combat anti-Semitism and erase the myths about Judaism and the Holocaust currently being propagated on the Internet by Muslim extremists and anti-Semitic regimes.&#8221;<br \/>\nCopyright 2007 The Associated Press. 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