A large international Muslim organization has approached Google after the word “Jew” was listed on Google as a verb marked offensive, defined as “to bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way” for most of the day on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Global Imams Council (GIC), the world\u2019s first and largest transnational nongovernmental body of Muslim religious leaders from all Islamic denominations, sent a letter to Google headquarters in response to the antisemitic character describing Jews. \u201cWe write to you to share a serious concern that demands swift action,\u201d the GIC wrote in the letter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe were appalled to learn that if one searches the word \u2018Jew\u2019 on Google, the first definition displayed is an antisemitic trope. The top result is an ‘Offensive’ verb that defines \u2018Jew\u2019 as \u2018bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way.\u2019 This presentation of this definition is entirely unacceptable.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They added that the second definition of \u201cJew\u201d displayed \u2013 that of a noun, \u201cis perfectly acceptable.\u201d This definition stated that \u201ca member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Imams, \u201cmany prophets and Messengers revered in Islam were Jews.\u201d They added that \u201cintentionally presenting them [Jews] in this manner is blasphemous and an insult to the Abrahamic family and to two billion Muslims around the world.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A large international Muslim organization has approached Google after the word “Jew” was listed on Google as a verb marked offensive, defined as “to bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way” for most of the day on Tuesday. The Global Imams Council (GIC), the world\u2019s first and largest transnational nongovernmental body of Muslim …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[3179,2106,3180],"class_list":["post-89203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-global-imams-council","tag-google","tag-prophets"],"yoast_head":"\n