National Post - who is a Jew? - Nov 16th

Who is a Jew

It is quite clear that since there are Ethiopian Jews who look like Ethiopians, Indian Jews who look like Indians, Iranian Jews who look like Iranians, Syrian Jews who look like Arabs, and Scandinavian Jews who look like Scandinavians, Jews are not a race. They are a culture, a civilization, a religion or more likely, a combination of all three. Suggesting that Jews are a race is a show of ignorance. Jews are a small minority of the population and it is easy to look at them and avoid the larger, more immediate and more important questions that should have been raised by this court case. As Jews are generally peaceful, the important question after the Hasan incident is "Who is a Muslim? Is it a person of peace or a radical Islamist jihadist?" Another question is "If a religion shows prejudice or racism against others, such as the prejudice shown against Gays by all three Abramic religions, what should the state do and should the religious institution have state funding?"

The real question is not whether Jews constitute a race, but whether religions should be exempt from the standards of morality and the values of the host country.