Take three students — a Jew, a Muslim and an atheist — and invite them to work side by side for a year. You would be asking for trouble — right?
Muna Abbas, 21, would disagree: “Jews and Muslims are often portrayed negatively in terms of getting on,” she says. “It is a surprise — to people of our own faith too — when they see we can. They say ‘you’ve managed to overcome such a massive boundary’ yet often they are talking about stereotypes.”
Abbas, a law and politics graduate from Manchester University, is Muslim. Her best friend is Jewish. They met last year at Undergraduate Parliamentors, a student leadership programme which since 2006 has been run by the Three Faiths Forums (3FF).
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