Avoid a Chilul Hashem?! What on Earth for?!
Well, looks like trying to judge favorably, to be dan L'kaf Zechus, backfired on me again. In this post, i mentioned an article from Arutz 7 that reported the Eidah Hachareidit had set up a committee to organize protests against the upcoming Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem. It looked like, for a while, they would actually take this chance to create a Kiddush Hashem and act legally and in a "menchlach" manner.
Well, as I mentioned, judging favorably has backfired on me. Again. See this article from today's edition of Arutz 7. The Chareidim, who as I've mentioned before, are simply not frum people. They are up to the same old tactics they used last time:
Protestors against the scheduled Gay Pride parade gathered in Jerusalem's hareidi-religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim Thursday, setting dumpsters ablaze and flinging garbage into the street. The enraged residents also hurled stones at a bus traveling through the neighborhood.
If nothing else, what did the bus do?! Very likely, it was probably a "Mehadrin" bus travelling through Me'a She'arim!! (Don't even get me started on that subject...)
Then,
Hundreds of observant Jews turned out for the demonstration in Bnei Brak, with some hurling rocks at police and burning several trash containers.
That's just lovely. So much for a Kiddush Hashem. It's really amazing. People are always asking for evidence of God's existence. Here, God blatantly gives the Chareidim a chance to right a wrong made six months ago. And what do the Chareidim do? In a complete lack of belief in God, they go, through this chance God has given them back in His face, essentially spitting at God in the face, and go and create yet another, even larger Chilul Hashem.
That's really sick. I've asked before, and I ask again: Why on earth should anyone ever judge these barbarians favorably? They are not frum, and probably, in fact, barely even Jewish. And I include their leadership in this, since they've done nothing to prevent any of this, and have in fact, stoked the fires with the curse they put on anyone involved in any way with helping put on the parade and guarding those participating in it.
Chareidim, seriously, act the way Jews are supposed to act and stop causing such huge Chilulei Hashem!! You're giving the Jewish Nation a bad name it does not deserve.
2 comments:
Israel may not acknowledge "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" (enumerated in the American Bill of Rights), however it is fairly obvious that rioting is criminal behavior in nearly all civil societies. Those who participate in these criminal acts, destruction of public property, and incitement of violence should be arrested and tried for their crimes.
Those who are actually the ones advocating and committing violence are those who are responsible. The ridiculous excuses of "they made me become violent by offending my beliefs" are the same ones Islamists use to rape, murder, torture, and mutilate; they are just as invalid no matter who is appealing to this feeble excuse. The one who commits or commands a violent act is directly responsible for it.
Are the police doing anything about this? Honestly this makes Israel look really bad to outsiders. It smacks of the aggressive anti-civil riots that occurred in France a couple years ago. It sounds like a fairly anarchist tactic and that these Israeli citizens are taking a page from the growing religious extremist groups which have been increasingly using violent tactics in other countries. Religious sects of Israel are beginning to court these terrorist ideologies. If the government allows this to continue then Israel may become just another unstable state in the Middle East overtaken by a violent extremist minority.
Thats my two cents.
I believe I read they had permits to put on a demonstration, but of course, to them, this seems to a carte blanche to do whatever they please.
I agree with you 100% about these groups, and that's why I've been advocating simply dropping them as a Jewish Orthodox group. They are not Orthodox. Orthodoxy in no way condones what these thugs are doing any more than Islam condones what Arab terrorists are doing.
I don't think it makes Israel look bad. I do think it makes Jews in general look back, and especially Orthodox Jews.
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