"The Muslim Way of Life" By Deborah Weiss

This Wednesday, Mohamed El Filali, outreach director from the Islamic Center of Passaic County (“ICPC”), is scheduled to speak to the Retirees Plus group at Temple Sholom in Riveredge, New Jersey. His lecture is titled “The Muslim Way of Life”, and as in past lectures, he is expected to teach the Reformed Jewish audience that Islam is a religion of peace.

Who is El Filali? Born in Morocco, he came to the U.S. and married a Jewish woman named Roxanne. She converted to Islam after their marriage, and the couple became devout Muslims. For a while they rented an apartment on the top floor of a house owned by Roxanne’s parents. However, tension arose due to their differing views. Roxanne’s parents believe that Israel has the right to exist and that Palestinians are instigating violence in Israel. But El Filali and his wife disagree. On at least one occasion El Filali’s in-laws ordered the couple to leave their house and return to their apartment. Roxanne complains that her parents “have limits to their acceptance [of Muslims].”

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