Posted by:
Holbrook
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Date: January 06, 2012 08:45AM
Many people are not able to keep their religion to themselves and seek to force it onto others. This was one of my biggest problems with Mormonism. I find the missionary focus very offensive. If someone chooses to live a certain way that is fine. However, when they begin abusing other people and attempt to force their views on others, then things have reached a danger point. That is one of the major problems when people think that god is directing their lives. They tend to develop a god complex themselves and begin dictating behavior. Tolerating intolerance is not tolerance at all.
"The harassment of an 8-year-old girl by ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh is shaking Israel’s self image to the core, stirring nationwide outrage about escalating religious zealotry and creeping public segregation of women."
"For months, Na’ama Margolis and classmates at her school endured insults and spitting by the neighborhood's strict Orthodox Jews – known in Hebrew as "Haredi,'' or God fearing – who complain that they should dress more modestly. When their story was featured on a weekend news magazine several days ago, it ignited already simmering worry about efforts of the ultra-religious to exclude women in places like public buses or the army."
"I think the whole country needs to wake up … that it’s not just a corner in Beit Shemesh,’’ said Ailsa Coleman, a 42-year-old neighbor who volunteered to escort Margolis's classmates outside the school and was also spat on. "It’s happening everywhere."
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1227/A-spitting-incident-sets-off-Israeli-frustration-with-Jewish-zealotry