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Why? Muslims revere Moses as a prophet of Allah; Jesus too for that matter.

Because in Syria, where some of the most brutal anti-Semitic oppression occurred most recently, Jews had to carry identity cards with "Musawi" (meaning Moses) to identify them as Jews. The term is one of derision not a joyful acknowledgment of a shared religious heritage (especially since the Arabs--real Arabs, not Arab-speaking people who happen to live throughout the Middle East--have a fairly distant genetic relationship to the Jews. That is, the Jews are closer genetically to folks living back in the Mesopotamian region than to the bedouin inhabitants of the Arabian peninsula later to become known as Arabs. Ishmael wasn't an Arab, nor did his descendents become the inhabitants of the Arabian peninsula, except to the extent that the 1st-6th century Jews who settled that region and built the cities such as Medina shared the common father Abraham with Ishmael.).

The Moses and Jesus (and Abraham) they "revere" are constructs having little to do with the actual historical persons other than using their names as a means of trying legitimize a "religion" created basically as a self-justifying license to kill and/or plunder non-Muslims, especially Jews. Though there has been less of that in the U.S. and Europe, the dhimmi mindset toward the Jews is as virulent in non-Westernized Muslim areas as it has ever been over the past ~1400 years.