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Jewish Orthodox Cry Anti-Semitism Whilst Vilifying Other Religions

Posted: November 26, 2012 in Jewish Bigots, Jewish Crazies, Jewish Cults, Jewish Extremists, Jewish Fanatic, Jewish fascists, Jewish Fundamentalism, Jewish Genital Mutilation, Jewish Genocide, Jewish Lobby, Jewish Rabbi, Jewish Racism, Jewish Racists, Jewish Radical Right, Jewish Religion, Jewish Religious Right, Jewish Religious Terrorists, Jewish Right, Jewish Right Wing, Jewish Ritual, Jewish Ritual Dangers, Sectarianism, Ultra Orthodox
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 ”Any trial based on the assumption that Jews and goyim are equal is a total travesty of justice” — Prominent Jewish religious fanatic, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

 

Jewish Day School Textbook Challenged by Muslim Group for Vilifying Muslims

DateFriday, November 23, 2012

A Canadian Islamic organization is accusing a Toronto-area Jewish day school of using a textbook that vilifies Muslims.

In a Nov. 19 letter to Jewish groups, the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-CAN, charges that a textbook used at the Joe Dwek Ohr HaEmet Sephardic School employs “inflammatory and hateful terms in describing Muslims.”

CAIR-CAN alleges that the book, “2000 Years of Jewish History,” describes Muslims as “rabid fanatics” with “savage beginnings.”

“The entire chapter devoted to Islam presents a pernicious and extreme portrayal of Muslims and the Islamic faith. The material further denigrates the Prophet Muhammad as a ‘rabid Jew-hater,’ and falsely portrays Islam as inherently anti-Semitic and devoted to hating Jews,” the group said in its letter to the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, or CIJA.

It said the text is used in grade 7 and 8 girls’ classes at the Orthodox Jewish day school and “leaves impressionable young Jewish readers with a sense of suspicion and even intolerance towards their fellow Canadians.”

The group wants the Centre for Jewish Education of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto to investigate.

No one from CIJA, the Wiesenthal Center or Ohr HaEmet responded to JTA’s requests for comment.

CAIR-CAN’s salvo comes on the heels of an investigation by Toronto-area police of a local Islamic school. Earlier this month, police cleared the school of hate crimes allegations following a complaint by Jewish groups. York Regional Police found that teaching materials at the East End Madrassah attacked Jews and “suggested intolerance,” but were not criminal.

Part of the madrassah’s curriculum encouraged boys to keep fit for jihad, compared Jews to Nazis, and referred to “Jewish plots and treacheries.”

The complaint “prompted change” at the madrassah, noted CAIR-CAN in its letter, adding that the group “welcomes that change.”

When police began their probe, the Toronto District School Board,  which rented space to the school, revoked its permit and the madrassah had to relocate.

JTA, 22 November 201

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Jewish ‘Taliban’ On The Rise | Turning Tel Aviv Into ‘Teheran’

Posted: January 18, 2012 in Jewish Taliban, Religious Kooks, Ultra Orthodox
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The Growing Influence of the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

By Juliane von Mittelstaedt

Photo Gallery: Battle for the Soul of Israel

Einat Keinan / DER SPIEGEL

Veiled women, radical rabbis and gender segregation: Israel is facing a rise in the influence of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Their efforts to impose a strictly conservative worldview have led to growing tensions with the country’s secular society. A resolution to the conflict is vital for Israel’s future.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,808252,00.html

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Christian Right – United NOT in Christ But in Facsist, Rightist Politics

Posted: September 16, 2011 in Freedom From Religion, Fundamentalism, Glenn Beck, Neo-Con, Religious Fascists, Religious Kooks, Religious scammers, Right Wing Buffoons, Right Wing Hypocrites, Superstition, Theocons, Ultra Orthodox
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Baptising Beck

‎Wednesday, ‎14 ‎September ‎2011, ‏‎5:11:40 PM | Richard Bartholomew

Warren Throckmorton has the latest on David Barton and Glenn Beck:

David Barton is feeling the criticism from Worldview Weekend founder Brannon Howse. Today, Barton responded to some of those criticisms as he framed them.

Howse is particularly concerned that David Barton’s partnership with Glenn Beck leads Christians to believe that Beck is a Christian or that Mormonism is just a form of Christianity.

Barton’s approach was to call Beck a Christian because Beck says that Jesus is his savior and redeemer and point to Beck’s deeds to validate his faith. You can read essentially what Barton claimed on the air here on his Facebook page.

Barton’s apologia also follows an attack by Marsha West in Renew America last week:

Why do evangelical leaders choose to team up with a Mormon? More specifically why did historian David Barton of Wall Builders, Attorney Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, Mike Evans of Jerusalem Prayer Team, and Pastor John Hagee join Glenn at the Restoring Courage rally?

California megachurch pastor Jim Garlow said, “I have interviewed persons who have talked specifically with Glenn about his personal salvation — persons extremely well known in Christianity — and they have affirmed (using language evangelicals understand), ‘Glenn is saved,’” Garlow reported. “He understands receiving Christ as savior.” (Online source)

David Barton stunned the audience when he went on Live TV and told host Randy Robison (here) that just because Beck attends a Mormon church “doesn’t say anything about his personal relationship with Jesus…. I have literally watched him pray and hear from the Lord and turn on a dime.”

One well-known Mormon practice is the vicarious baptism of non-Mormons into the LDS; this appears to be returning the gesture. I blogged on Beck’s alliance with Christian Right pastors – particulatly John Hagee – here.

Of course, Barton has little regard for the ninth commandment, let alone the Nicene Creed, but it is interesting to see how a segment of the US Christian Right – known for its exclusivity and refusal to “compromise” with science or Biblical scholarship – appears to be accommodating a religious tradition which is obviously disconnected from historic Christianity. Beck supports Israel and promotes the USA’s “divine destiny”, and holds socio-economic views the Christian Right finds congenial. That is far more important than notions such as the Incarnation or the Trinity.

As I blogged here, there have also been attempts to incorporate Judaism into the Christian Right vision.

UPDATE: Warren Throckmorton has more:

The Moody Broadcast Network station in East Texas, KBJS-FM canceled David Barton’s Wallbuilders Live radio program during the while Barton was discussing Glenn Beck’s religious beliefs. Randy Featherstone, KBJS manager, said the show was dropped due to Barton’s failure to distinguish between Mormon theology and Christianity.

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David Weprin, Sleazy Rabbis & Dirty Tricks Ed Koch

Posted: September 15, 2011 in Catholic Right, David Weprin, Orthodox Jews, Religious Right, Sleazy Rabbis, Ultra Orthodox
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A Word About Last Night’s Election

David Weprin

Bob Turner won. David Weprin lost. The Republican’s victory is being celebrated as a message sent to President Obama. But is this the message we really want to send?

Bob Turner won last night’s special election for Anthony Weiner’s seat in US House of Representatives.

Turner is the first Republican in 90 years who has won it.

He won because Weprin was a spectacularly weak candidate; because some voters were so upset with Weiner’s lies and his bad behavior that they switched parties to vote against him; because ultra-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews, spurred on by rabbis whose actions may have been illegal, voted against Weprin because he voted for same sex marriage in the state assembly; and because a very despicable former mayor urged people to vote against Weprin to send a message to President Barak Obama – we hate your Mideast policies which we see as anti-Israel.

Ed Koch did this despite the fact that Weprin, who is an Orthodox Jew, is very pro-Israel.

And he did it despite the fact that Obama’s intervention had just saved Israeli diplomats in Cairo.

America’s pro-Israel lobby has become an arm of Israel’s rightist parties. No longer do pro-Israel activists look at Israel as a whole and try to represent, as much as possible, the spectrum of legitimate Israeli views.

In fact, they don’t even endeavor to represent the views of the sitting government, opting as often as not to adopt positions to its right.

Ed Koch and his minions sent a message to the President only days after President Obama acted swiftly to save Israeli lives. Prime Minister Netanyahu was thanking the president at the same time Ed Koch was cursing him.

The lesson Obama and other will learn from this is not that his policies are wrong.

What Obma will learn is that many Jews are one issue voters who will abandon someone like David Weprin, who will throw him under the bus, just to try to get their way.

For the most part, Republican don’t oppose Obama’s Middle East policies because they truly differ with them.

For the most part, Republican’s differ with Obama’s policies because they are Obama’s policies – no more, no less.

If Republicans gain control of the Senate and the White House, they take actions that will gut many of the social programs your community relys on. They will do other things that are against the interest of your community.

What will they do about Israel?

They’ll do whatever is pragmatic for them – even if that means adopting the exact same policies put forward by Obama.

Ed Koch told you throwing Weprin under the bus would make you look strong.

But instead, it makes you look like thusgs who no one should ever trust again.

You rode a one trick pony into the ring and you won. But you won’t win next time or the time after that, because everyone knows your trick.

Turner might have won without Ed Koch’s dirty trick and the rabbis’ sleazy attack on Weprin.

The message sent would have been much stronger because it would have been much fairer and more mentchlikeit.

But it wasn’t.

You think you’ve told politicians that you either do what we want on key issues or we’ll walk away from you.

But what you’ve really told them is that you will throw a friend under the bus to get what you want.

And I think that message will hurt Jews for years to come.