US Jewish activist vows solidarity with Muslims | BBC

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"We must stand with our fellow Americans who may be singled out for how they look, where they're from, who they love or how they pray."

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By BBC News | November 18, 2016

The Jewish head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an anti-bigotry group, has vowed to register as a Muslim if Donald Trump creates a database of Muslim Americans.

The idea of a Muslim database arose in November 2015, when Mr Trump told a reporter he would "certainly implement that. Absolutely".

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, said: "If one day Muslim Americans will be forced to register their identities, then that is the day that this proud Jew will register as a Muslim".

His comments came at the group's Never Is Now conference on anti-Semitism, held in New York.

"We must stand with our fellow Americans who may be singled out for how they look, where they're from, who they love or how they pray," Mr Greenblatt said.

The ADL chief, who previously served in the White House as special assistant to President Barack Obama, told BBC News: "The bottom line here is - we in the Jewish community know what it is when you apply a litmus test based on faith - when you identify people and tag them based on faith...

"When you take one group and make all of them suspect. I feel we have more obligations to speak out."

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