Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Teddy Bears, Reverence and Affection

Originally published 12/18/07, 3:41 PM, Eastern Daylight Time. Note: link no longer works.
The events surrounding the teddy bear named Mohammed truly identifies how some people view their religion and their deity. In many ways, it shows that you cannot just dismiss this form of Islamic fundamentalism as a blip on the horizon but truly reflects a theological position albeit one that we may think is flawed.

For more on this, please see the article on the subject that I recently wrote for the Jewish Tribune in Toronto. The url for this week's edition of the paper is:

http://www.jewishtribune.ca/tribune/PDF/jt201207.pdf

The article is on page 5.

Rabbi Ben Hecht

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

> it shows that you cannot just dismiss this form of Islamic fundamentalism as a blip on the horizon

We can no more dismiss Islamofascism than the Romans could dismiss the Huns, the Goths, the Visigoths and all the other "barbarians" that brought their empire down. The only question is: will we learn from the example of Rome to prevent the same thing happening to the West?

Anonymous said...

Where you done research about it mate ???