Posted on 08/01/2013 11:44:00 AM PDT by LonelyCon
Two buses were stoned by a group of Haredim in Beit Shemesh on Wednesday after the police arrested a man and woman who had asked a female passenger to move to the back of the bus.
The incident began on a No. 497 bus from Beit Shemesh to Bnei Brak, which is run as a mehadrin line on which men and women sit separately. Under a ruling by the High Court of Justice in 2011, such seating is strictly voluntary.
According to passengers on the bus, one of the female passengers asked a woman who was sitting at the front of the bus to move to the rear. While the seated woman did not object, the driver - who heard the conversation - summoned police, who detained the woman who had made the request and her husband, and the bus continued on its way.
When news of the incident spread, groups of ultra-Orthodox youth stoned two local buses. Moshe Schuman was a passenger on one of them, the No. 417 from Ramat Beit Shemesh to Jerusalem.
“The bus was full because of the vacation,” Schuman said. “When the driver stopped at a stop, four people in Haredi dress blocked the bus’ path and began to bang on the windows with a hammer. The passengers got upset, there were people there with babies. The driver tried to flee the scene but he couldn’t because they were blocking the bus’ path. Only after they’d smashed all the windows and ran away was the driver able to drive to a safe spot.”
The confrontations between ultra-Orthodox and non-Haredi residents of Beit Shemesh on issues of modesty and exclusion of women has made the headlines in the past few years, ever since Haredi extremists began spitting at and harassing religious girls...
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Morons. Put these idiots in a pen with an equal number of islamowhacks and watch the fireworks.
Tell me again, what Religion teaches that ???? What political system ? Oh, never mind. I’ll go to the NOW web site. They certainly will have a blog on it.
Haredi dress...Jewish burqas
http://kenyanjustice.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-burqa-but-not-from-our-region-and.html
I’m just glad it wasn’t the Methodists or the Mormons again.
My people perish for a lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6
How dare G-d tell people what to do! [/sarcasm]
Tough with women but won’t serve in the Israeli army.
Judaism has this problem I’ve found, that the ultra-orthodox are just following Jewish law as they’re commanded to do. Tough stuff.
So what commandment makes them think that women must sit in the back of the bus?
A WOMAN asked her to move to the back of the bus
Not too tough to stop teaching the nonsense (women to the back of the bus etc) to young and impressionable minds. It’s similar to the muzzy scum teaching their young to hate and kill non-believers. Just not quite as violent.
I saw that it was a woman, but was just curious as to whether the idea of separation was to avoid impure thoughts, or whether it was a male superiority thing.
Yes, of course. It just never crossed my mind that she might be a male chauvinist pig. Silly me. The other choice is a moral imperative for them, which makes more sense.
Dont Worry, Americans!
You’re tax dollars will go to hastily replace those broken windows!
I’m not amazingly acquainted with how rabbis interpret these gender constraints, but women and men did attend separate parts of synagogues in ancient Israel.
What I was pointing out was that this may simply be in keeping with Jewish law, under the Mosaic Covenant, rather than a random act of violence. And yes, Muslims teaching Jihad is in keeping with their law.
As a Christian, I find these things very unnecessary, peculiar, and morally wrong. However, I recognize that this is my perspective from a Christian viewpoint. How we live is very much defined by our apprehension of our origin, morality, and purpose.
Look at how far our American culture has fallen.
I certainly agree that it is a product of teaching. Morality and purpose have always been subjective. Perhaps there was a reason for women to sit at the back of the bus thousands of years ago when there were no modern buses. I can fathom no reason for it now and none can justify it now either. Realistic traditions are acceptable and subjugation of others without cause is intolerable.
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