Fox News aired video on Sunday of ultra-orthodox Jews fighting with police during a protest over the opening of a parking lot on Sabbath.
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And this is why i'm deist
If you don't think it should be open on the Sabbath, then don't go there on the Sabbath! Sheesh. That seems to be the hardest thing to understand for some people. If you don't like a tv show or movie that you think goes over the line, then don't watch it. If you don't like that x-rated song from that x-rated rapper, then don't listen to it. This simple logic can be used for almost every situation.
Religion is a mental illness.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443747438&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
US Rabbi: Haredi leaders should slam violence
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
An American haredi rabbi is urging haredi rabbinical leaders in Israel to publicly condemn the violent haredi protests against Shabbat desecration in Jerusalem, linked to the opening of a parking lot near the Old City to accommodate weekend visitors to the capital.
The initiative by Rabbi Yakov Horowitz of Monsey, New York, a haredi educator who has repeatedly condemned haredi violence in the past, comes after three weekends of violent demonstrations by hundreds of haredim in Jerusalem over the Shabbat opening of the parking lot, and on the eve of a planned haredi prayer vigil Wednesday afternoon near City Hall.
"This type of violence is against everything that the Torah stands for and is an ugly perversion of Torah values," Horowitz told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, in a telephone interview from New York.
Horowitz said that by not speaking out publicly against the violence, even though they oppose it, haredi leaders are empowering extremists in the community.
"The tragedy is that people in our community are not speaking out against this publicly and distancing themselves from it," he said. "We, the silent overwhelming majority, are allowing these hooligans to speak for us."
The American rabbi, who has spearheaded an e-mail campaign against the violence via his Web site (www.rabbihorowitz.com) and is also working to get haredi leaders to speak out against such violent protests ...
The Jewish Taliban !
Sounds like a great episode for South Park !
Oh religion, why are you so awesome?
BTW this video reminds me of leaving JFK and trying to get a taxi
Must be a great promotion for tourism.
thank god they decided not to put in the vending machine yet...
!!! [pulls hair out] !!!
is an educated, civilized, secular society too much to ask for?!
[every bit of this delusional, archaic, primitive garbage... from kooky southern Baptists burning their kid's "J.I.Joe's" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the BBQ grill because they're full of "demons" and "devils", to the Taliban's ruthless and methodical form of "divine justice," to Christianity's, and Islam's views on women in general.. to the disgusting plague of repressed, Catholic priests chronically preying on the youth of their own church.. to the nutty palm reader on the corner... to religious institutions the world over demanding money [or, other compensation] for "holy salvation!"
...to Osama Bin Laden, and Jerry Falwell themselves!!!!]
it is all madness.. it's all fantasy.. utter fallacy... 100% free delusion!
and, yet... in spite of all the entropy... there's a relatively easy solution to the madness...
it's called...
"EDUCATION."
We should send Brüno over there. Now, that would be funny!
I'm sorry, but if your religion requires you to dress up in a costume, you're a fanatic. These ultra orthodox men look ridiculous and are no better than the Taliban when it comes to their attitudes towards women and other faiths.
well said.
I thought the hats were cool. In the 'you look really silly' sort of way.
Fools!
They look like clowns.
More religious wack-a-doodles.
Amen!
when will the madness end?
It looked like something from Monty Python. LOL
Talk about Meshuggeneh!!
Oh no! Not the old parking lot sin. I guess that is the eleventh commandment.
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First Posted: 07-12-09 05:03 PM | Updated: 07-12-09 05:10 PM