What's "Palestinian Chutzpah"?

Guess what.

UPDATE - Muslims setting fires at the Southern Wall.

Yes, Muslims attacking police on the Temple Mount, three police injured.

Can anyone explain to me how come, time after time after time, the Muslims manage to store rocks and Roman candles to attack the police (4 injured), staying in Al-Aqsa overnight and the police haven't figured out a way to pre-empt this?


More pics.  

And here's a short clip of what is happening now this morning  

Update in Arabic.  They've managed to burn their own prayer rugs.  And there's smoke in the mosque.  Another pic:

And there's this, too 

 PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi said Monday that a new plan to allow Jewish Israelis to enter East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound through a second gate was a "loud insult" to Muslims around the world. "Israel is creating a new reality at the expense of Palestinians, their religious rights, sites, and historical identity," Ashrawi said in a statement. "They are violating the sanctity of religious sites without consequences, which completely terminates possibilities for peace and will ultimately drag the whole region into disastrous clashes." Ashrawi, who is a Palestinian Christian, also said that Israel was using religion to control holy sites that do not belong to it.

That's called "Palestinian chutzpah". 

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Leftovers:

Waqf witches:

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So That's What a Sica Looks Like

See that short sword in her left hand, held high?

That's a sica, the weapon-of-choice of the sicarri.  You know, those "Jewish terrorists".

About her?

Oh, here:-

A small bronze statue dating back nearly 2,000 years may be that of a female gladiator, a victorious one at that, suggests a new study...It’s not known where the statue was originally found, though it is currently in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbein Hamburg, Germany...in the air she raises what the researcher, Alfonso Manas of the University of Granada, believes is a sica, a short curved sword used by gladiators. The gesture she gives is a "salute to the people, to the crowd,"

Recently, in Sh'ma, David Makovsky used the metaphor and added:

In the years leading up to the destruction of the Second Temple, no one stood up to the Sicarii. As the rabbis say, sinat chinam, senseless hatred, destroyed the Second Jewish Commonwealth. If the Third Jewish Commonwealth is to endure, the people and their institutions must stand up against the new, violent hatred of “Price Tag” and other modern “Sicarii” groups, just as they do to Palestinian terrorism.

I sent in a response (that hasn't - yet? - appeared):-

David Makovsky suggests ("A History of Hatred", Sh'ma 42/689, April 2012) that the small group of "Price Tag" hooligans are "the closest inheritor of the Sicarii mantle", that "it is possible they are enjoying the tacit support of a wider group" ajnd they must be stood up to "just as [is done] with Palestinian terrorism".  Makovsky is not only misleading his readers but is engaging in the very sinat chinim he rails against.  For example, no one has been found guilty or even charged with the crime of mosque-torching.

All the representative bodies of the Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) have consistently condemned the reckless, irresponsible criminal actions that were carried out under the "Price Tag" label.  Dany Dayan, Naftali Bennet, Elyakim HaEtzni, Pinchas Wallerstein and others are on record, in media interviews and op-ed articles.  Moreover, after the last outburst, "Price Tag" activity has disappeared.  Do Rabbis, educators and public figures need do more?  Yes.  Surely so.  But Makovsky's intimation, which would permit the entire camp of Jews living in Yesha to be stained and besmirched, is itself a bit of internecine warfare, semantic, true, but nevertheless is intended to support an attack on a "wider group" that certainly is not involved and has worked against the phenomenon.

A second disturbing frame of argument employed by Makovsky is comparing Arab terror activity with  "Price Tag" operations.  That is wrong.  David wears a kippa and he knows that Jewish law can turn on the size of an olive.  These kids are not modern-day sicarii.  In fact, I would suggest that the amount of soccer stadium ruffians are many more in absolute numbers here in Israel and have caused damage to life, limb and property which might even equal that of the "Price Tag" teenagers. I am not relieving anyone of responsibility but simple providing some perspective which was lacking in Makovsky's piece which could justify a claim of "we Jews have the Price Taggers and the Arabs have Hamas/Fatah/Islamic Jihad".  That would be immoral because it would, and it could, allow anti-Zionists and others to point a finger of blame which should not be done.

The over 350,000 Jews resident in Judea and Samaria have established institutions of society, social welfare, education, culture, health, immigrant absorption, science, security and politics.  We include voters from Meretz to Shas.  We have a problem and it is being dealt with and hopefully, if not under control, is being treated the best we can, also on the background of the sometimes irrational actions of the Military Government here as well as the absurdities emanating from the Defense Ministry (among other things, I am referring to the latest house purchase in Hebron).

And there is a new book out, The Sicarri in Josephus' Judean War.

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Religious Propaganda Too Successful for Its Own Aims

I recently posted the results of a Yesha Council poll and then this academic paper flitted across my screen:

While not all settlers, or ‘colonists’ as they are called in European newspapers, were religious (and this is a generalization, of course; There are many shades of observant groups in Israel, from light to ultra-orthodox, not to mention ‘secular’ sympathizers), the overwhelming majority was and still is.

The results of that poll were:

National - Religious: 34%
Hareidi - 32%
Secular - 34%

The study from which I culled that above excerpt, which deals with the Gaza expulsion: "Religion and Politics as Passive-Aggressive Partners: Some Reflections on the Israeli Withdrawal from the Gaza Strip", 8/2005 by Athalya Brenner, University of Amsterdam (now of Tel Aviv U.), also had this observation:

[I] expected to see how religious propaganda worked to convince—or to create conflict and disparity. This indeed happened, but on a scale smaller that anticipated. Paradoxically, the faith objects and concepts that were used in this largely performative event—performative, since the news media was ever present—achieved the opposite effect. Somehow, the use of religious symbols acted as conflict-resolving, rather than conflict-creating, agent. In that sense, it created [secular] public sympathy for the evacuees but failed to mobilize that public on their behalf and, therefore, no fatal rift occurred. In other words, religious propaganda in this instance should be evaluated as too successful for its own aims.

Her conclusion is even more direct:

Many voices in Israel and beyond proclaimed, at that time, that the degree to which the army and police forces were trained to deal with possible scenarios, their tactics and
superior power and numbers, was the main factor that facilitated the quick and successful evacuation...I believe the ultimate reason lies precisely in the fact that ‘A Jew can expel a Jew’ from the Jew’s home [to put the settlers’ slogan on its head], but—at least in this round—‘A Jew cannot kill a Jew’ for being expelled, certainly not in front of media cameras (the performative element), almost certainly because of the ‘Love thy neighbour/We are all one nation/Think of the Torah’ slogans (ideological elements) that united both sides well, to the chagrin of the slogans’ inventors.

For the settlers, the commonalities of shared [real or manufactured] memories and symbols proved to be a Trojan horse; for the ‘others’, non-religious Israelis, including most of the evacuators, the reminders of such commonalities assisted in checking potential violence against the settlers’ civic and more radical resistance, and in recognizing their very real pain of leaving their homes. Let me emphasize: that commonalities might eventually override differences in any conflict, including a civic conflict in which one side claims to have divine support, hardly needs further substantiation by the present instance. After all, techniques of [peaceful] conflict resolution will always seek common ground to base a solution on. What I found so interesting in the pullout case was the manner in which the technique worked so well that it achieved the opposite of what its initiators targeted. So game and match was won by the Israeli State this time. Religious/biblical symbols were recognized as shared, but ‘identity’ was ultimately resolved by being equated with obedience, or at least only a limited physical struggle with, the State. The stated overruled the Torah in this round.

I think this possesses much food for thought as regards the continuing hullabaloo over the "hilltop" youth phenomenon, that they are extreming themselves out of the mainstream, not only of those who are secular but of those among whom they live.

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A Book Store Gets Hit

Here's a short video and here's another regarding a war being waged against a Jewish book store in...Meah Shearim. Or HaChayim, formerly Manny's.

I guess those Sikrikim don't like mixed crowds in the aisles.

You'll never know what they're up to...reading.

Well, almost:

ה'סיקריקים' מדברים לראשונה: "אנחנו מתנכלים לספרייה כי הם מוכרים ספרים של ציונים"".



The store sells Zionist literature.

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This Is A Wrap-Around Story

Many years ago, when we were all young, I seem to recall a friend who put on tefillin for a while.

She was female.

Credit: L. Nimoy


I recalled that when I read this (but wait, there's a political angle on this as well):-

...According to a release from the Israel Religious Action Center, Noa Raz was accosted last week by the man in Beersheba’s bus station while waiting to board a bus that she takes to her job in Tel Aviv.

Raz was asked by the man two times if the imprints (*) that he noticed on her arms were from tefillin. When she answered that they were, he attacked her, kicking and strangling her. He also screamed “women are an abomination.” It is being reported that she was able to free herself from the attacker and managed to board her bus.

Raz, a Conservative Jew, is a member of Women of the Wall...The Israeli Religious Action Center has asked the Beersheba police to label the attack as a hate crime, after Raz filed a report with authorities on Wednesday.

Up until here, I was all wrapped up in her story with full sympathy.

But...

The executive director of Women of the Wall, Anat Hoffman, characterized the assault as not being isolated but instead part of a growing trend towards creating a threatening environment for women who want to pray openly. The incident “should not be seen as an isolated incident but as taking place within an atmosphere of growing violence toward and intimidation of women who seek to pray freely and equally," Hoffman told JTA.

She added, "Too often these acts of violence are tolerated. The fact that this man thought it acceptable to attack a woman for performing a religious act in private is an example of the escalation of violence targeted against women and against religious pluralists in Israel."

Dear Anat (a good acquaintance of mine in real life), if we treated all "isolated incidents" as a product of an "escalation of a growing atmosphere of violence" that is "tolerated", what are we to do about left-wing acts against chareidim, Yesha residents, etc. that we thought were simply aberrations of individuals rather than a result of an ideological onslaught against political opponents?

After all, there is always another side to the story:-

Poll: 83% of haredim suffer ethnic discrimination

While most respondents say they have not experienced phenomenon, majority of haredi sector say they, or someone they know, were subject to discrimination. Survey also reveals half of Israelis give State failing grade on 'acceptance of others'

And as a postscript, a tefillin imprint is so much better than a tattoo.


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My own imprint:




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And Who Killed Muslims in A Mosque Now?

Other Muslims.


Rival Islamist fighters clash in Somalia

Islamist militiamen loyal to the government battled hardline al Shabaab fighters in Somalia on Wednesday as the failed Horn of Africa state spiralled further into chaos...The fighting has killed at least 113 civilians since last week, and thousands have fled the city.

There have also been fierce clashes between Shabaab and a more moderate Islamist militia, Ahlu Sunna, in the country's central and southern regions. At least five people died on Tuesday in Mahas town, witnesses said.

"Al Shabaab fighters ran into a mosque for refuge, but residents kept firing at them with rocket-propelled grenades," local man Aden Hussein said by telephone.

Religiously Motivated

Religiously motivated, many people become monks, nuns, recluses, delusional, prophetic, observant, humanistic, etc.

And others?

Read on:-

Israeli authorities said Sunday they have caught a Palestinian man who killed an Israeli child and wounded another during a rampage in a West Bank settlement early this month. Authorities said Moussa Tayet, 26, confessed to the killing and handed over a knife used in the attack.

The assailant attacked a group of children in the Bat Ayin settlement with the knife and a pickax on April 2. A 13-year-old boy was killed, a 7-year-old was seriously wounded and a third boy escaped. The attacker fled the scene, leaving behind the small, red pickax.

Israeli military and police officials said Tayet was from a village next to the settlement...he meticulously planned the attack for weeks, picking up the weapons from a hiding place as he entered the settlement. They said he told investigators that the attack was religiously motivated.

How To Plan A Riot (or Pogrom)

At Acre (Akko in Hebrew).



First, let's get the opening salvo:

Speaking to Channel 2 News, Jamal denied he had intended to provoke local residents, saying he had driven with his 18-year-old son and the son's 20-year-old friend carefully and quietly from the Old City to the Ben-Gurion neighborhood, three kilometers away, to pick up his daughter from her fiancée's home.

But police dismissed Jamal's claims.

"This was a provocation. An Arab driver arrived in a Jewish neighborhood on Yom Kippur with blaring music, and refused to leave when asked to by local residents. We believe he was intoxicated. This was a deliberate act," Galilee Police spokesman Ch.-Supt. Eran Shaked said.

Add a bit of incitement together with an outrageous Nazi comparison:

Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra'am-Ta'al) on Thursday responded to violent clashes between Jews and Arabs in the northern city of Acre, calling the violence a "pogrom perpetrated by Jews against Arab residents."

"The police displayed helpless discrimination in its treatment of the assault on Arab residents," Tibi said.

The riots erupted before dawn Wednesday when an Arab resident of the mixed town drove his car into a Jewish neighborhood during the holy day of Yom Kippur, during which even secular Jews refrain from driving out of respect. Jewish rioters alleged that the man defiantly played loud music, and proceeded to assault him, sparking large scale clashes between Jews and Arabs in the area.

Israeli Arab MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash) said the incident had less to do with Yom Kippur than a deliberate "escalation of racist speech" ahead of Israeli municipal elections next month.

"We see a great danger in these attacks. They are similar to the pogroms that Jews were exposed to at the hands of the Nazi gangs in Germany," Barakeh told reporters.

Mix in a bit of mendaciousness by starting with the famous Arab tactic of "it started when he hit me back" when the original entrance by a car is ignored:

Jewish residents in the mixed town within Israeli boundaries pelted Ahmed Shaban's car with rocks and besieged his house. Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, Abas Zkoor was among the victims. He placed full responsibility on the Israeli Internal Security Minister and the police.

He said, “About 15 people were in the Shaban house and soon hundreds of young Jews whose eyes were filled with hatred and racism were throwing stones at houses throughout the neighborhood and smashing cars, including my own.”

But most importantly, forget that the drive-in could have been purposeful:

Knesset Member Abas Zkoor (United Arab List – Ta'al) sent a letter to Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter asking him to increase Traffic Police presence at major intersections in the Negev and Galilee regions on Yom Kippur for fear that Arab-Israeli vehicles will be stoned by Jews. "We respect those who fast on Yom Kippur, but we want to avert a disaster," the Arab legislator told Ynet on Tuesday.

"The Arab-Israelis occasionally need to use their cars to reach hospitals and run errands on Yom Kippur, and they are fearful that children will hurl stones at them at the intersections," Zkoor said. "Such incidents may increase the hatred - and this would be a shame."

Now, ask yourselves, if the Arab MK warned publicly, why didn't that Acre Arab heed him and not drive into a Jewish neighborhood the way he did? They don't listen to their own lawmakers? Or did they listen too well?

Especially after last year when Tal Zino was killed by an Arab driving a vehicle:-

A year after she was killed by a quad bike driving through her town on Yom Kippur, Tal Zino's parents are breaking their silence: 'The Arab drivers came here to provoke Jews on the holiday, our daughter was the victim of the first vehicular terror attack.' Attorneys for Assad and Muhammed Shibli however, say their clients were tried by the media and fault the police investigation

Or could it have linked to the failure of the annual October protests recalling the Arab riots of eight years ago (note Zkoor remarks)?

Even though tensions were exacerbated this year with the decision not to indict the police officers involved in the shooting that led to the deaths of 13 Israeli-Arab protestors in October 2000, only several hundred people gathered in the town of Sakhnin on Saturday afternoon to mark the anniversary of the events.

Earlier this year crowds of thousands took to the streets to demonstrate after the cases were shut. Some attributed today's sparse attendance to the heat, others to the hour, and then there were those who said people have just had enough...

...MK Abas Zkoor (United Arab List – Ta'al) was also in attendance. "When a Jew kills an Arab, he gets a commendation. But when an Arab kills a Jew like in Shfaram, he gets indicted," said the MK, referring to the charges brought against Israeli-Arabs who killed Jewish terrorist Eden Natan Zada after he opened fire on civilians in a crowded public bus.

"This proves that there is a difference between Jewish blood and Arab blood. Unfortunately, even today, eight years on, Arab blood is forsaken. While Arabs are indicted, the Attorney General closes cases for murderers of shahids (martyrs)," he said.

And see Suzzane's comment here.


Photos here.

Acre Riots Continued

Hundreds of Jewish and Arab demonstrators were clashing with police forces Thursday night in Akko's Wolfson neighborhood, this after Yom Kippur saw fierce clashes between the northern city's residents that erupted after an Arab motorist entered a predominantly Jewish area on the holiest of Jewish days.

Police were trying to contain the demonstrators with crowd-dispersing apparatus, including water hoses, stun grenades and gas grenades.

A video here

Here's another video

Is This A Race or Religious Riot?

One take

Jewish and Arab residents of the northern town of Acre resumed violent riots in the city Thursday evening, after the Yom Kippur fast concluded, with police warding off hundreds of Jewish youths chanting "death to Arabs" as they tried to storm the city's main road.

...violence broke out before dawn Thursday when a group of Jewish rioters allegedly assaulted an Arab man.

According to the group, the man drove a car into the eastern part of the city during Yom Kippur, a day on which even secular Israelis traditionally refrain from driving out of respect for the holiday. The incident touched off large-scale rioting between Jews and Arabs, resulting in extensive damage to dozens of cars and shops.

The unrest erupted around midnight on Wednesday, hours after Jews began observing Yom Kippur. An Arab resident of the old city of Acre drove his car to a neighborhood in the eastern part of the city, claiming that he owned a residence there and was simply on his way home. Jewish youths at the scene claimed the Arab man was deliberately making excessive noise.

While allegedly shouting epithets, the youths proceeded to attack the Arab man. Shortly afterward, a group of Arab youths arrived at the scene, igniting a riot.

News of the incident spread to the surrounding Arab neighborhoods of the town, including the old city, prompting hundreds to take to the streets. A significant crowd began coalescing along Ben Ami Street, which is considered the key commercial avenue in the city. Dozens of cars and shops along the street were vandalized...

Take two

Serious clashes between the Jews and Arabs of Acre left dozens of wrecked cars, smashed windows, flat tires and uprooted trees on the eve of Yom Kippur, Wednesday.

The clashes reportedly erupted after an Arab resident of Acre's Old City entered the Ben Gurion neighborhood on Yom Kippur - when traffic comes to a halt across the nation - arousing the fury of Jewish residents there who pelted his car with stones.

Yom Kippur is one of a few Jewish holidays whose prohibitions are observed in public by virtually all Jews and even secular Israelis refrain from desecrating the holiness of the day in public.

...Meanwhile, word spread in the Old City that the driver had been killed. Hundreds of Arab youth stormed the streets heading for the Jewish neighborhoods. Violent clashes ensued and police managed to calm the situation only after they asked Arab dignitaries to pull their weight and influence the youngsters to stop.

But en route home, the Arab residents destroyed property, reportedly shouting "Death to the Jews," "Allah hu Akbar [God is Great in Arabic]" and threatening to kill Jews "if you dare leave your houses."

A bystander said the driver who sparked the clashes was driving threateningly near several girls sitting in a park. After the girls started screaming, he reportedly incited the Jewish youths who came to see what had happened when he said, "you don't know what's coming for you".

Some time later his car was attacked and shortly after the Arab youths of the Old City enacted their vengeance.

The bystander said that Jewish residents were afraid to leave their houses even to go to synagogue. He told of "400-meter rows of cars, each and every one with smashed windows." He said the devastation seen in the streets was worse than after a Katyusha rocket fell in the city in the Second Lebanon War.

Police were not quick to respond, according to eyewitnesses. The team manning the Acre station on Yom Kippur is Arab and residents claimed that this was why they were afraid to intervene. Only after Acre's Jews called the Kiryat Shmona and Motzkin stations did police arrive.

Maybe It's An Arab Thing?

This silly killing business over religion.

Egyptian killed in sectarian row

...by the murder of a Muslim whose wife converted to Islam against her Christian family's wishes. Police said Mariam Khilla's brother, Rami, broke into their Cairo home and opened fire, killing her husband and injuring Mrs Khilla and their daughter. Mr Khilla had been searching for Mariam ever since she left home to marry Ahmed Saleh about two years ago, police said.

...Police said Mariam Khilla and baby daughter Nora were critically wounded in the attack which took place overnight on Monday...Police sources said he had urged the couple to divorce and for Mrs Khilla to return to Christianity, but they had refused.

The killing came less than a week after a Christian man was killed in sectarian clashes in southern Egypt after a Muslim man was accused of flirting with a Christian girl.

In Jewish tradition of a century ago and in some places even unto this day, parents would perhaps sit "shiv'ah", the seven-day period of mourning if a child left the faith but to go out and search for two years and then shoot to kill, including aiming at a child?

Is this an Arab thing, perhaps, and not Islamic then?

New Killing Ground of Christians

Recently, Christians have it tough in Gaza. Bombing the YMCA library. And other unsavory events.

And in Egypt. (And here, too.)

And let's not skip the "disputed territories" of Judea and Samaria wherein reside the Arabs-who-call-themselves-"Palestinians" (=Pals.) where the situation is not good.

Now, India is a new killing ground for Christians:-

Those who came to attack Christians here early last week set their trap well, residents say.

First, they built makeshift barricades of trees and small boulders along the roads leading into this village, apparently to stop the police from intervening.

Then, villagers say, the attackers went on a rampage. Chanting “Kill these pigs” and “All Hindus are brothers,” the mob began breaking into homes that displayed posters of Jesus, stealing valuables and eventually burning the buildings. When they found residents who had not fled to the nearby jungle, they beat them with sticks or maimed them with axes and left them to die.

A local official said three people died as a result of the attack on Aug. 25. The carefully placed roadblocks accomplished their purpose; residents say a full day passed before help arrived.

One villager, Asha Lata Nayak, said, “I saw the mob carrying sticks, axes, swords, knives and small guns. They first demolished the village church and later Christian houses. Nobody came forward to help us.”

Religious violence. First the Jews, now the Christians.

An Academic View on Religion and Violence

Eran Zaidise, Daphna Canetti-Nisim, Ami Pedahzur, (2007),
Politics of God or Politics of Man? The Role of Religion and Deprivation in Predicting Support for Political Violence in Israel
in Political Studies 55 (3) , 499–521

Abstract

This study examines the associations between religious affiliation and religiosity and support for political violence through a nationwide sample of Israeli Jews and Muslims. Based on structural equation modeling, the findings show that by and large Muslims are more supportive of political violence than Jews and more religious persons are less supportive of political violence. Deprivation, however, was found to mediate these relations, showing that the more deprived – whether Muslims or Jews, religious or non-religious persons – are more supportive of political violence. The explanatory strength of religion and deprivation combined in this manner was found to be stronger than any of these variables on their own.

The findings cast doubt on negative stereotypes both of Islam and of religiosity as promoting political violence. They suggest that governments which want peace at home, in Israel as elsewhere, would do well to ensure that ethnic and religious differences are not translated into, and compounded by, wide socio-economic gaps.

Another Foreskin Story (*)

I have posted here at my blog many pictures and also a good few posters, from all sorts of organizations and groups from across the political and ideological spectrum. Several have been funny, weird, outrageous and introspective.

The one below, however, seems to be unique:-



This may be a better reproduction:-



And do you notice the additional note to the side?



It shows three young Jewish men and tells the story of their arrest and sentencing.

It seems that they discovered that young Arabs working in religious neighborhoods would return after work, dressed in jeans, clean shirt and slicked-down hair and present themselves as Jewish. The Arabs had Jewish names and were trying to hook up with "weak" girls.

These three decided to become vigilantes and went hunting and found one called "Rafi". Rafi was beat up so badly that, the poster claims, he will not be able to produce children. It is unclear from the language and terminology of the poster whether he had his member removed or just smashed up. The reference is to "the foreskin of the Philistine".

Now they want help.

Should have done what bloggers do - stalk, take pictures, publish them on a blog and get the police to do their job.

Shall we call this Foreskin Done In?

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(*) With apologies to JudeanEve

New Publication

COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM - LESSONS FROM THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
EWI Contact: Jean Dumont de Chassart, Brussels

Policy Research report 28-Oct-2007 - An EWI publication concludes that religion is not the cause of extremist violence, but is used as a justification for violent acts. It contends that the role of governments in preventing violent religious extremism is limited. Religious leaders, faith communities and civil society must do the heavy lifting to counter this threat. The report, based on research and analysis, and the convening of experts with leading persons of faith, offers specific policy recommendations to combat violent extremism. It was launched at an event in New York attended by leaders from government, media, and civil society.

What Would DovBear Write?

Well, this isn't quite a take-off on DovBear, but it comes close.

If you were reading DovBear's blog and came across violence, a house of religion, observant people, money, avarice, you just know he's referring to the latest Vishnitz scandal, right?

You don't know that scandal?

Here:-

Stone-throwing, break-ins and cries of goy

The main outward difference between members of the Vishnitz Hasidic sect and other Hasids are their hats: the knot on the bow faces right instead of left. On Passover, many Vishnitz Hasids in Bnei Brak's Kiryat Vishnitz quarter displayed another outward sign: their holiday clothing was stained with eggs, coffee or juice. Stones were also hurled at them. At least one boy, the great grandson of the Vishnitz grand rabbi, was hurt during one of the stormiest succession battles in the ultra-Orthodox world in recent memory.

The police are now trying to intercede between the Srulists (the supporters of Rabbi Israel, the grand rabbi's elder son) and the Mendelists (supporters of the younger son), and for the moment a cease-fire is holding.

But, no. I am referring to this story, from the other religion:-

Two stabbed and two arrested in convent fracas

Thu Apr 12, 8:19 PM ET

Two people were stabbed and two arrested in scuffles at a Cyprus convent on Thursday in a power struggle between rival factions, police said.

Witnesses said priests and nuns were involved in the night-time fracas at the Metamorphosis tou Sotiros convent, some 35 km (22 miles) south east of the Cypriot capital Nicosia.

Disputes there have been simmering for months over control of its speculated vast wealth.

The people injured and those arrested were laymen, police said. "Two required stitches for head injuries inflicted by sharp implements and two were detained for obstructing police," a police source told Reuters.

The convent follows the old Julian calendar and is not considered part of the official Orthodox Church of Cyprus. Last December a nun at the convent was hospitalised following an assault.

I'm hoping that there's no sexual inuuendo in this item.

DovBear, did I phrase it right?