A few days ago, I was invited at an “iftar”.
An iftar is the meal that muslims have after fasting the whole day, during the month of Ramadan.
The guy is half Druze and half Christian. His wife is Muslim Palestinian. She comes from a very wealthy family, and has always lived between London and Lebanon.
During all the dinner, she insisted about all the dishes being purely Palestinian.
At a point of the conversations, she mentioned she took Hebrew courses. When asked why, she said that one must know the language of his enemies.
I wonder how the world could ever get better with people, so called educated, being so narrow minded and intolerant.
Why should I be tolerant enough to go to an iftar? Because after all, I respect any religion, as long as it worships the same G-od.
Our host continued judging the people who “don’t respect the fast of muslims by eating in front of them”.
It seems that in Saudi Arabia and other “fanatic” muslim countries, eating in public during the month of Ramadan is a sin, and one could get jailed for that.
So much for tolerance.
And then they wonder why in France they don’t allow young muslim girls to wear the hijab at school. They want to be intolerant at the max and expect to profit from the democracy of other countries to do what they will never accept from other religions in their countries.
Eating in front of a person who is fasting must not be a temptation. Women fast and prepare meals for the night. Although they are hungry too, they are not tempted.
Fasting is a personal choice. In other religions, people fast by conviction and not by force. We cannot force our beliefs on others.
I don’t think that at Kippur, in Israel, it is forbidden for people to eat in public at the risk of being jailed…
This is the big difference. Respect.
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I doubt that Islam and Judaism worship the same G-d. HaShem has mercy on all of His creatures. Allah condemns non-Muslims to eternal hellfire. We say the 'Shemah' twice a day, thanking G-d for life. They yell 'Allahu Ackbar' before the kill innocent yeshiva students, or fly planes into buildings. We love pray for the Living G-d to strengthen us and give us Life. They love death and seek to die in Allah's name. No, we certainly do not worship the same deity.
Lost Tribe, I wish you a shanah tovah u'metukah. May the coming year herald only good things. May you, and all of Am Yisrael, be written in the Book of Life, happiness, blessing, teshuvah and every goodness.
You are right Bar Kochba. They don’t value life and worship death to find heaven and its “virgins”, while we try to find heaven on earth and work to make it a better place….
There is only one G-od, but it’s the ways we believe, love and serve G-od that are different.
Our way is evidently a good way. Judaism teaches us values of love, respect, honor, and encourages us to introspect and evolve, study and always aim higher.
This is what makes us better persons.
May the coming year bestow only blessings upon all of us.
שנה טוכה
wow ...i find it so sad that you had a post that started off talking about anothers intolerance and then just bashed a whole relgion.
no one is better than the other...and to demonize a whole people becuase of a goverments law isnt fair.
p.s there is no reasone to take away any young girls rights because of another country..a country is eaither democratic...or selective (predudice)
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