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Written by Rabbi Levi Brackman
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
It seems so surreal. I have been watching the news that has been coming out of Mumbai, India in virtual horror. Any terror attack targeting innocent people is nothing short of evil. However, this attack has been especially troubling for more reasons than one. We have become accustomed to terror attacks that are over within a few moments. These attacks have lasted days instead of minutes. Those of us who are following the news coming out of Mumbai are witnessing horror happening in slow motion.
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
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 “Those who cure you are going to kill you" were the words of a senior al-Qaeda chief in Jordan to Canon Andrew White, who runs an Anglican church in Baghdad, seemingly in reference to the physician’s plot to kill thousands in England and Scotland.
Chillingly these words identify exactly what most people find so horrifying about this particular terror plot. Doctors are held in esteem in the West—people trust doctors more than almost any other professional. In a world where doctors pledge to use their knowledge to heal, the fact that people with that skill were plotting to kill thousands is especially disturbing.
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
 It is people, not religions which are violent, and sadistic people will use religion for their cruel and evil aims. People who are tolerant and peaceful by nature will find these values within their religion Can a truly religious person really be tolerant of a heretic? Or to rephrase the question, can someone who is convinced that what they believe in is the G-d given truth not only for themselves but for others as well, tolerate another who has rejected that perceived truth? To the secular person this question sounds absurd: however this is something the religious person must really struggle with.
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Saturday, 12 May 2007 |
 After six Muslims were arrested this week for plotting a terrorist attack on an American army base I heard an interview with a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He was expressing concern for the safety of his community and thus stressing that these six were in no way representative of Islam or American Muslims and he criticized the media for portraying them as such. As a Jew who has suffered from anti-Semitism I felt instant sympathy for this man's cause. However, it was undeniable that he did not say enough to calm the nerves of his audience.
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
 Suicide bombing is in vogue for some of the youth living in our planet. First it was only in Israel but now it has reached the rest of the world as well Not a day goes by without news of a new suicide attack in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel Indonesia or Europe and this week, in Iraq, they have begun using children for this vile task as well. As long as this horrendous phenomenon was just contained to Israel people were able to claim that suicide bombers were just groups and individuals who had lost all hope and out of extreme desperation resorted to killing others with explosives attached to their bodies.
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