Religious Tensions in India
Islamist militants are claiming responsibility for the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which killed nearly 200 people and wounded 300. In the aftermath of the violence, many analysts are predicting a backlash against India's minority Muslims by radical Hindu groups, increasing long-standing religious tensions....
Kim Lawton is joined by Timothy Shah...for a studio discussion about the central role religion played in the Mumbai attacks and the potential political-religious consequences.
The Growth of Chabad
...Chabad Houses serve as a home-away-from-home for many Jews. Usually run by young couples — more than 4,000 worldwide — these centers offer a welcoming place for Jewish visitors where they can celebrate Hanukkah, Passover or weekly Shabbat dinners. Now, with the recent death of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka who were killed last week during massive terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidism rooted in 1700 Eastern Europe, is garnering renewed attention...
In this report updated from its original broadcast in 2002, Kim Lawton talks with emissaries of this movement...about their mission to bring Jews back to their sacred traditions. “We should usher in this age when godliness will be revealed to all, and the struggle between good and evil will cease,” explains Rabbi Harlig. “So we look at our goal of bringing Jews closer so that they should fulfill the mission as one of the ways we could hasten . . . the coming of the Messiah.”
Comment from Patrick:
As a Christian, I believe in the coming of the Messiah too. But I believe his future coming will be the return of Jesus. I look forward to that day when there will be no more killing in the name of religion, and no more wars between nations. We live in a violence-weary world; but I'm afraid we haven't seen the end of it yet.
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