Here is my more on the thousands of years that Jews and Muslims and Christians lived in peace together...I saw this movie Out of Cordoba at the Chicago Peace on Earth Film Festival a couple months ago. The most amazing (and free!) film festival ever. I was there for hours and hours. The director of this film was there and spoke about the film. He is a Jewish American and after 9/11 wanted to dispel the notion that there was this inherent enmity or a clash of civilizations between Muslims and the West. He is a Jewish American and committed to inter-faith peace and to peace in the Middle East. Watch the trailer!
Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours is about Jews and Muslims struggling for social justice and against the hijacking of their religions by extremists. Inspired by two medieval 'wise men of Cordoba' — one Muslim, the other a Jew — these contemporary people of faith are promoting the values of democracy and tolerance on the frontlines of the violent clashes that are defining our century. The documentary follows the film's director as he undertakes a journey around the Mediterranean world after the attacks of 9/11, visiting people who are utilizing their religious traditions to counter the propositions that there is an inevitable 'clash of civilizations' between the West and the Muslim world, an incompatibility between Islam and democracy, and an unsolvable conflict between Muslims and Jews.
-M
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