KYOTO -- Chief Rabbi David Rosen, considered one of the world's leading experts in the field of interfaith dialogue, believes Japan, by providing infrastructure assistance, is playing a vital role in the Middle East despite the oft-leveled criticism its contributions are mainly financial and not military or spiritual in nature.
"In our neck of the woods, in the Middle East, we have people who are murdering themselves and murdering each other," Rosen said in an interview with The Japan Times.
"They are doing so out of a false religious encouragement that they are going to go to a most wonderful, better place, something which they are told they are going to get credit and great blessings for.