Stuff gets scarier and scarier. All in the name of God.
Read rest of article at:Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel police questioned Tuesday a Jewish extremist leader who condoned torching churches amid an uproar over recent hate crimes, including the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian home.
Benzi Gopstein, who heads far-right group Lehava, has not been linked to any recent attacks, but his comments regarding churches came at a time of heightened sensitivity over Jewish extremism and drew outrage from Roman Catholic officials.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said Gopstein had been called in for questioning "about his comments regarding the burning of churches."
He was later allowed to go free, she added.
During a debate with religious students last week, Gopstein defended the idea of burning churches, invoking a mediaeval Jewish commandment to destroy places of idol-worship, according to a widely broadcast recording of the event.
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An 18-month-old Palestinian child died, and his father was fatally injured when alleged Jewish extremists firebombed their home at the end of last month.
Hours earlier, an ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed six people at a Gay Pride march in Jerusalem, mortally wounding a 16-year-old girl.
On June 18, an arson attack occurred at a shrine on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel where Jesus is believed to have performed the miracle of loaves and fishes.
Israeli prosecutors have charged three Israeli extremists in that case.
Lehava claims to fight for Jewish iden y, in particular by opposing marriages between Jews and gentiles....
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-police-...115849571.html
"but God told us to do it..."
Not good. But I don't blame it on religion. Something has gone wrong and there's an overall lack of respect for human life. Which seems like people would inherently understand and treasure. Being a human but killing another over property, religion, a manufactured border between 2 pieces of land.
Unfortunately, I think things are going to have to progress to the very bottom before it gets turned around and everyone recognizes how stupid it's all been.
yep, JEWISH extremists fire-bombing Muslim houses is religious.
would you ban video games also?
people kill in the name of video games. and movies. would you ban those as well as religion?
There are a lot of religious nutters in the world. Even the Joooooooz.
When Israel becomes a theocracy, how much should that change our position on them?
We defend them now because they are supposedly a democracy, and better than the other police states and tinpot crazies in the area.
What happens when it becomes a jewish Iran?
LMAO. I don't know. GFY.
What are you talking about?
I take it you don't pay attention to Israeli politics. NM, carrry on.
People in Israel are less religious than Americans.
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