Esam Mudeer, a lecturer in comparative religion, challenged Friedman to a debate-1.

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Esam Mudeer, a lecturer in comparative religion, challenged Friedman to a debate.

The brouhaha over a St. Paul rabbi's comments advocating the killing of Arabs has gone international.

Ten days ago, Rabbi Manis Friedman of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement faced a maelstrom of criticism after being quoted in the Jewish magazine Moment as calling for armed conflict against Israel's Arab neighbors.
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He quickly apologized and recanted, saying that his comments were taken out of context. But it was too late; people on both sides of the issue -- including the leaders of his own denomination, a Hasidic movement in Orthodox Judaism -- publicly chastised him.

The story fizzled fairly quickly here, but a few days later, the Star Tribune got a call from a Muslim educator and publisher in Saudi Arabia who said that it has become a hot-button issue there. Esam Mudeer, a lecturer in comparative religion, challenged Friedman to a debate.