Friday, April 25, 2008

Tolerance Follow-up

In my tolerance post below several people asked, where are the synagogues.
The Jewish religion does exist here, and as a religion is tolerated.
The Muslims refer to Christians and Jews as "brothers of the book" since we share many of the same beliefs back to Abraham.
The problem they have is with the country of Israel which they don't recognize due to their violation of UN resolutions regarding their borders and treatment of the Palestinians.

The article below is from Bahrain, one of our GCC neighbours to the north.
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Bahrain set to name Jewish woman envoy

By Habib Toumi, Bureau ChiefPublished: April 25, 2008, 00:46

Manama: A Jewish woman, Huda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo, is set to become Bahrain's ambassador to Washington, sources close to diplomats told Gulf News on Thursday.
"Huda is Bahrain's nominee for the post and this is of course very good news for Bahrain's deep-rooted values of tolerance and openness," Faisal Fouladh, a Shura Council representative, and Western diplomats said.
Huda, a businesswoman, was the first Jewish woman to sit in the Shura Council, the 40-member upper house of the bicameral legislature, replacing her uncle. A Christian woman, Alice Samaan, also sits on the council which has 11 women, compared with only one woman MP, Lateefa Al Gaood, in the 40-member lower house.
Huda also is the first Jewish woman to head a rights organisation, the Bahrain Human Rights Watch. She is its secretary-general.

1 Comments:

Blogger Ruth said...

This is an example more Arab/Muslim countries should follow.

2008-04-29, 7:05 a.m.  

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