Faith and the COVID-19 vaccine: ‘Muslims were among the first to believe in vaccines’
To explore what American clergy are doing to support the vaccine effort, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the former CEO of the Conservative Jewish movement’s Rabbinical Assembly and now a master’s candidate at the City University of New York’s School of Public Health, interviewed a series of faith leaders about their tradition’s views on public health and vaccination, and asked what they are doing in the vaccination effort.
The series begins with Imam Mohamed Magid, a former president of the Islamic Society of North America. Magid is the executive imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center in Sterling, Virginia, one of the largest mosques in America, with about 5,000 families in seven branches across the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Read and listen to this conversation with Imam Mohamed Magid on the safety and theological underpinning of taking the vaccine on Religion News Service.
