A Facebook Passover Haggadah

This blurb is kind of cool. Any major news links people know of? I can’t get anything through the Google. The items are: “Under the Eaves of Architecture: The Aga Khan: Builder and Patron” (Philip Jodidio) “Historical Atlas of Islam” (Malise Ruthven) “An Islamic Conscience: the Aga Khan and the Ismailis” (Bill Cran;Shamir Allibhai;Jane Chablani)

Someone who has actually read the Qur’an and figured out like all scripture, it is full of contradiction. The Meaning of the Koran – NYTimes.com. But I should concede that I haven’t told the whole story. Even while calling Jesus the word of God — and “the Messiah” — the Koran denies that he was the son of God or was himself divine. And, though the Koran does call the Jews God’s chosen people, and sings the praises of Moses, and says that Jews and Muslims worship the same God, it also has anti-Jewish, and for that matter anti-Christian, passages.

My friend Eboo writes a piece for NPR on how to reach out to Jews during this most recent Eid al-Adha. I appreciate the sentiment, my daughter and his son are about the same age, and I think it is an important way to bridge the gap. Where I disagree is that this is an opportunity for inter-faith dialogue. In so far as religions share certain basic principles we can reach out, but the loss and horror of Mumbai is far more primal. His story highlights the more basic, human losses we share and support we need. It’s not about…