We became friends despite the great differences between us whether Muhammad is "that prophet" prophesied by Moses and the solution to the Palestinian conflict. We continued corresponding after I moved to Fargo.
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By Syed Sajid Ahmad | February 1, 2018
While I lived in Boise, Idaho, the local newspaper published a letter claiming that Islam was anti-Semitic by partially quoting a verse from the Quran. It was quoted as such to incite hatred and bash Islam.
I called the writer, the leader of a pro-Israel group, and asked to meet so I could show him the actual verse. He agreed. It was Super Bowl Sunday and already game time. My son Yusuf and I drove to his home, and he came out to see us. I opened the Quran and showed him the verse.
"And remember when you [the Jewish people] said, 'O Moses, surely, we will not remain content with one kind of food; pray, then, to thy Lord for us that He may bring forth for us of what the earth grows - of its herbs and its cucumbers and its wheat and its lentils and its onions.' He said, 'Would you take in exchange that which is worse for that which is better? Go down to some town and there is for you what you ask.' And they were smitten with abasement and destitution, and they incurred the wrath of Allah; that was because they rejected the Signs of Allah and sought to slay the Prophets unjustly; this was because they rebelled and transgressed (2:61/62)."
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