Sunday, October 21, 2007

"God's Chosen" Cavemen

Where are the CNN documentaries; the global outrage and intervention programs for liberating Orthodox Judaic women from this tyrannical, backwards racket? Is Judaic degradation of women somehow less reprehensible than that of the Taliban? I say much more so. Meat from the butcher or fish from the fishmonger--that's the status of the woman in Orthodox Judaism (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Nedarim 20b).

5 Haredi men beat woman who refused to move to back of bus

By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent

Five assailants believed to be Ultra-Orthodox Jews assaulted a woman and an Israel Defense Forces soldier Sunday for sitting next to each other on a bus bound for Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem.

The incident began when the five men asked the religious woman to move to the back of the bus to prevent males and females from sitting together in public. When she refused, they beat her and the male soldier who sat next to her.

Police forces that arrived at the scene to arrest the men were attacked by dozens of ultra-Orthodox men who punctured the tires of their vehicles, allowing the assailants to escape.

Full article:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/915215.html

This is not an isolated incident:

http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2006/12/move-to-back-of-judaic-bus.html

the position of Jewish females in the countries where the Talmud is studied and its precepts obeyed a position which proves the very contrary to the saying alluded to it is well known to every student of the Talmud that the doctors of the Talmud in general do not hold in high estimation the female sex They put them in the category with slaves and children Again and again we read Women slaves and children are exempted You shall teach the law to your sons and not to your daughters He who teaches his daughter the law is like as if he teaches her to sin The mind of woman is weak The world cannot exist without males and females but blessed is he whose children are sons woe to him whose children are daughters We also remember the teaching of the Talmúdica sages that a man may consider his wife like a piece of butcher's meat We also remember that in the morning prayer the husband thanks God that he hath not made him a woman As to the which the
Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature By John McClintock

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