Tuesday, June 15, 2004

NHK program on Middle East and Islam

Tonight there was a program on NHK ETV channel I watched by chance with a Japanese friend who helped me to understand the whole program. The title was "All About Middle East and Islam". Two university professors and a journalist were invited to talk about the issue. First they explained how everything in this area is based on religion and then gave a simple clear introduction of Islamic beliefs, relation of man with God and that every human is equal to others. Then a brief description of God and His messengers and introducing of the followers of 3 main religions of the world. After this brief, they talked about people's life in this area and the journalist who was a lady and had been to Iraq and some other countries in the Middle East, mentioned how people were so kind, have a great hospitality and culturally has a special care about women, and that she as a woman and a guest enjoyed twice their care and hospitality. This talk brought about the question that "then why there is so many war in the area while people are so kind and nice"! The answer was so interesting that for a moment I thought if it was IRIB program! The university professors from Tokyo university and Osaka, explained how Western countries have been the cause of all the war in the area and their complete explanation about the war between Israel and Palestinians was amazing! They clearly said that before Israel the followers of all 3 main religions of the world were living in peace there, but Western countries were the source of all problems by creating Israel in the area. And now we just see the war and forget about the history of what Western countries did there!
Hope Revital, my dear friend from Israel doesn't get upset with these words.

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