Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Coming to your Neighborhood Soon?

This is being reported:-

Jerusalem: Haredis destroy internet café

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox break into internet café, claiming place incites haredi community to commit sins

Religious dispute in Jerusalem: Dozens of riled up ultra-orthodox broke into a Jerusalem internet café Monday, broke the doors and shattered the computers, claiming the place incites the haredi community to commit sins. On Monday night, the ultra-Orthodox crowd arrived at the internet café located in the center of the capital and began harassing other haredi people who were at the place surfing the internet. The rowdy crowd attempted to break into the place, but was unsuccessful after an employee locked the doors.

The haredi crowd shattered the glass doors, went in and broke the computers and the cash register...



Hey, this is even better than bookburning, or is it?

No, it isn't. And while it ain't quite a 'krystallnact', I'm sure that if it isn't dealt with as the law allows, we'll have the burning of prostitutes next.

Next? We already had it in Tel Aviv:-

Arson Wave Hits Tel Aviv Brothels

By Lee Hockstader
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, August 25, 2000; Page A22

TEL AVIV From the red-curtained reception room where she greets clients, a Russian-born prostitute wearing lingerie and a permanent pout surveys the sounds of the street outside Dolls, a Tel Aviv brothel. Sometimes what she hears is ugly.

"The religious men ride past in their cars shouting out the windows," said the prostitute, who calls herself Alina, as she glanced away from a Russian news broadcast on television. "They yell a slogan: 'You're going to burn!' "

Lately, the brothels of Tel Aviv have been burning.

In a wave of arson that has swept the city's red light district in the past few weeks, at least eight brothels and sex shops have been torched. Last week, in the worst incident, four prostitutes died on a quiet street when the brothel where they worked and lived was set alight before dawn. Neighbors heard their shrieks for help before they succumbed to the smoke and flames.


and see here.

The man who was found guilty was a chareidi, if a chozer b'tshuvah.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"LO TIRZAH"
If those Haredim are "really" concerned about the desecration of the Holy Land and the impurity, should it not better to bring the prostitutes to redemption, to teshuvah; help them to leave that life of oppression, help them to come to a decent life. If they have low education, help them to obtain a better education so those women can be a proud example of Kedushah in their houses and neighbourhoods. Help them to get worthy jobs to live with dignity. That will be more an act for kidush HaShem. All those acts of fanatism indeed are more a Hillul HaShem than an act of righteousness or mercy. Let us not be hypocrites blinded by the trunk in our own eye.
Guriel
Nassau, Bahamas

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