Pakistan disabled girl arrested for blasphemy

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Frankly, I don't give a damn why someone wants to kill me. I don't want an atheist to kill me for no reason any more than I want a religionist to kill me for a dumb reason.

I'm an Israeli and I can tell you that Israel is no democracy.

Whatever they are they are a hell of a lot closer to freedom than Saudi and the rest of the burka wearing Sharia law nut job clan.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Whatever they are they are a hell of a lot closer to freedom than Saudi and the rest of the burka wearing Sharia law nut job clan.

So you think. In fact, if you criticize Israel to a Zionist, all you get back is ####### like that. They don't dare compare Israel to places like the USA. You'd be surprised at how many things Americans take for granted aren't allowed in Israel, like, ironically for VJ members, like having an interfaith ceremony. If you want to marry outside of your own religion, you have to leave the country. You can come back and your marriage will be recognized then, but you can't marry there. Arab Israelis who marry Arab spouses from the WB or Gaza can't live with them in Israel. No such problem for Jews.

State rabbis also decide who is a Jew and who is not, and privileges derive accordingly. Trying to convert Jews is not allowed. If you're born of a Jewish mother, you can't stop being a Jew, even if you want to. One poor guy who is older than the country never identified himself as a Jew, but the state did. He went to court to have it changed and the court refused to let him be a non-Jew. Israel is about 20% non-Jewish Arab and 2% Christian. The national anthem, Hatikva, is essentially about the Jewish struggle to steal the land from the Arabs. Tell me you'd want to have to sing that all the time, if you're an Arab.

As long as deep in the heart,

The soul of a Jew yearns,

And forward to the East

To Zion, an eye looks

Our hope will not be lost,

The hope of two thousand years,

To be a free nation in our land,

The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And, so on . . . These kinds of issues have a detrimental effect on Jews and Jewish citizens, too. More and more of them are questioning the policies that created a quasi-democracy, not a plausible democracy. It's only the hardcore, extremist Zionist Jews and Christians who seem to be unswayed by the facts on the ground.

[웃 910]

So you think. In fact, if you criticize Israel to a Zionist, all you get back is ####### like that. They don't dare compare Israel to places like the USA. You'd be surprised at how many things Americans take for granted aren't allowed in Israel, like, ironically for VJ members, like having an interfaith ceremony. If you want to marry outside of your own religion, you have to leave the country. You can come back and your marriage will be recognized then, but you can't marry there. Arab Israelis who marry Arab spouses from the WB or Gaza can't live with them in Israel. No such problem for Jews.

State rabbis also decide who is a Jew and who is not, and privileges derive accordingly. Trying to convert Jews is not allowed. If you're born of a Jewish mother, you can't stop being a Jew, even if you want to. One poor guy who is older than the country never identified himself as a Jew, but the state did. He went to court to have it changed and the court refused to let him be a non-Jew. Israel is about 20% non-Jewish Arab and 2% Christian. The national anthem, Hatikva, is essentially about the Jewish struggle to steal the land from the Arabs. Tell me you'd want to have to sing that all the time, if you're an Arab.

As long as deep in the heart,

The soul of a Jew yearns,

And forward to the East

To Zion, an eye looks

Our hope will not be lost,

The hope of two thousand years,

To be a free nation in our land,

The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And, so on . . . These kinds of issues have a detrimental effect on Jews and Jewish citizens, too. More and more of them are questioning the policies that created a quasi-democracy, not a plausible democracy. It's only the hardcore, extremist Zionist Jews and Christians who seem to be unswayed by the facts on the ground.

Here's a good idea. If you don't Likud there then leave.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I'm Palestinian. I have Jewish family members. A lot of us do, you'd be surprised. Actually, some of us used to be Jews.

Well if that's the case both sides might want to quell being so fanatical about their religion.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Here's a good idea. If you don't Likud there then leave.

Bad idea. Likud can leave.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Well if that's the case both sides might want to quell being so fanatical about their religion.

The conflict in the ME has a religious veneer, but it's primarily political.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Here's a good idea. If you don't Likud there then leave.

Hmm where have we heard this before ?

Oh yeah... on Visa Journey a few years back - "If you don't like George W. Bush, you can leave !"

Or in the U.S. in the 1950s - "If you don't like living in segregation, you can go back to Africa !"

Or how about... "If you're a Zionist European Jew who moves to predominantly Arab Palestine, and then decide you don't like living around Arabs, here's a good idea. You can go back to Europe !"