are batshit insane (just like a big chunk of Muslims who make the news)

Intimidating protest highlight Israeli religious divide

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15239538

I found the article pretty interesting, and I know many here will also.

It is interesting to think how Israeli society will evolve, as their numbers are increasing at a rapid pace, and perhaps in a hundred years, 50% of the Israeli population will be ultra-orthodox. This mirrors the problems in many Muslim countries where the number of religious Muslims asking for Shariah is increasing, and the governments have started caving in to their demands, or they risk (and have risked and continue to face) violence.

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"As the children and their mothers make their way home, intimidating pickets of ultra-orthodox Jewish men have been waiting for them a little way up the street - some, say the families, have thrown stones and tomatoes and faeces as they have tried to pass."

As I said, fucking insane (and barbaric).

Quote :

"There are taunts about sluttishness and immorality - and cries that the girls are "defiling the neighbourhood". These are, unbelievably, references to how girls aged between six and 12 are dressed to attend a religious elementary school."

Quote :

"Rabbi Lipman says what is happening in the streets outside the Orot school as a microcosm of a struggle between different traditions within Judaism for the future of Israel."

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"No division looms sharper or more pressing than the one between the ultra-orthodox and the rest of Israel's Jewish population."

It would be funny (in a sad way) if some decades down the road, Israel becomes a country ruled by Jewish Shariah Law, in a way of speaking.

10/11/2011 10:47:28 AM

ABOLISH RELIGION

10/11/2011 11:28:04 AM

Religion just needs to progress. I wonder if some people could get by without it.

10/11/2011 12:02:17 PM

^ Unlikely as uncertainty scares us shitless.

10/11/2011 5:11:25 PM

ibt trolls

10/11/2011 6:51:21 PM

reason and evidence, I must be trolling.

10/12/2011 12:37:45 AM