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These are snippets from this (Tuesday) afternoon's news updates on the web. Hey! Did you know that you are a "corrupt animal"?
As preparations for the World Pride Jerusalem Parade were in the final stretch, an anti-parade flier distributed in Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim as well as other neighborhoods on Tuesday, offered an 20,000 shekels reward for "anyone who causes the death of one of the people of Sodom and Gemorrah," referring to homosexuals taking part in the parade. It was suggested in the flier to use homemade Molotov cocktails, and instructions for how to make them were provided in the flier. The explosives are nicknamed "Shliesel Special", in honor of the Haredi [ultra-orthodox fundamentalist] protester who disrupted the Jerusalem Pride Parade last year by stabbing three marchers. The letter appeals to residents of the capital: "don't let them teach our children their impure ways."
The letter goes on to say, "During this parade, 300,000 corrupt animals are anticipated to march through the holy city of Jerusalem, waiting avidly for the chance to put themselves on display before our children and our sacred Torah. They will try as hard as they can to defile as many of our innocent children as they can."
Gay Jerusalem city councilman Sa'ar Netanel said in response that "this is a worrying escalation and a license to kill. It needs to shock and appall everyone and cause everyone to ask himself whether he wants Jerusalem to take on the image of extremists who forget all humanity or to take on the image of marchers who only ask for patience, tolerance and pluralism."
Other "official" flyers, hung all over the neighborhood, appeal to the Haredi community as well: "anyone with the ability to do so has the duty to do everything he can to smash the jaws of evil in any way that he can." The document was signed by the leading rabbis of the Haredi community.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: JFR on Tue, 11 July 2006 14:23 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: marc on Tue, 11 July 2006 16:52 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: timmy on Tue, 11 July 2006 17:25 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: marc on Tue, 11 July 2006 18:17 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: timmy on Tue, 11 July 2006 19:26 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: E.J. on Wed, 12 July 2006 00:40 |
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JFR, what IS the legal position in Israel?
By: cossie on Wed, 12 July 2006 03:32 |
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Re: JFR, what IS the legal position in Israel?
By: JFR on Wed, 12 July 2006 14:42 |
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Thank you
By: Deeej on Wed, 12 July 2006 14:56 |
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Thank you also, JFR ...
By: cossie on Thu, 13 July 2006 00:26 |
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Re: Thank you also, JFR ...
By: JFR on Thu, 13 July 2006 02:59 |
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Re: JFR, what IS the legal position in Israel?
By: E.J. on Thu, 13 July 2006 02:00 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: timmy on Wed, 12 July 2006 07:56 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: Deeej on Wed, 12 July 2006 09:48 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: timmy on Wed, 12 July 2006 09:55 |
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Not the Daily Mail
By: Deeej on Wed, 12 July 2006 10:19 |
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Re: Not the Daily Mail
By: timmy on Wed, 12 July 2006 10:52 |
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Re: I post this with a sense of deepest shame.
By: timmy on Wed, 12 July 2006 15:51 |
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