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Tuesday 09 Feb 2016 - 14:02 Makkah mean time-30-4-1437
 Tennessee, (IINA) - “If we’re going to be the family of Abraham, we together have to call out Islamophobia,” Rabbi Jonah Pesner who is the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC), told a packed crowd at the Islamic Center of Tennessee in Antioch recently, ThinkProgress reported.
“We have to beat back the forces of bigotry, whether it’s anti-Jewish bigotry, anti-Muslim bigotry or bigotry in any form in America.”
“It’s my job to fight Islamophobia and build relationships with the Muslim community,” Pesner told ThinkProgress by phone from his home in Boston. “We stand with them when they come under attack and fight for refugees and against Islamophobia.”
“There’s no replacement for relationship, that’s a baseline. When people know each other, they are much more likely to understand, appreciate and know each other,” Pesner said. “Only 8 percent of Americans have met a Muslim. It should be 100 percent. Everyone should know Muslim and Jewish people.”
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