One way to unite Jews and Muslims....
Hatred can be very ecumenical...
Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem have found common ground in their fierce opposition to a gay rights rally due to be held in the city this week.Of course, what I like about Israel is that the parade will go on...with protection from the police. This could happen in no muslim country.
Leaders from both faiths have united to denounce the parade, which has prompted nights of street protest by ultra-orthodox Jews, who regard homosexuality as an "abomination", and death threats against those taking part.
After Israeli police found and defused a bomb bearing the message "sodomites out", orders were given for 12,000 officers to deploy across Jerusalem during the march, which is planned for Friday. Last night, lawyers from both sides were wrangling at the High Court over whether the parade should be allowed to take place and, if so, where. With the court expected to convene another hearing today, it appeared that the parade would take place but at a new location near the parliament, a safe distance from orthodox neighbourhoods.
The issue of the parade is generating more media coverage than the Israeli military incursion into Gaza, which has left more than 50 Palestinians dead.
The city's Islamic leadership is opposed to the parade, with Tayseer Tamimi, the head of the Palestinian supreme council of Sharia litigation, leading Muslim opposition. "This march tries to destroy the moral and spiritual values for youths," he said. "All religions discredit gays because it is against the decent human nature created by God."
On a another note...I used to always say that one way to get the Catholics and the Protestants to unite in Northern Ireland was to have brought in more Jewish immigrants. It's a joke...please no e-mail.
posted by GayandRight @ 9:15 PM
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Why not? The way they're uniting the Shia's and Sunni's is their hatred of the U.S.
Bush is sort of like an "anti-Ghandi". He's so unpopular that people stop killing each other in order to kill Americans.
Who do gay Hezbollah supporters in Canada hate more now then?
It's confusing, in Muslim countries the state simply murders gay people - but it's done quickly and quietly, no media fuss is made, so gays here don't mind marching with religious zealots who would kill them if it weren't for geography.
Israel brings this whole issue out of the middle east closet, exposing the hatred of gays on all sides, but at the same time demonstrating Israel's respect for human rights, rights that are absent in any Arab state.
So who do these 'progressive gay leftists' hate more now?
If the Shia and Sunni have stopped killing one another in Iraq because they hate W, then that little bit of info has not made it into the news...
BS. Of course they hate W, but they have not stopped hating each other. And Ghandi, btw, could do nothing to prevent the massive deaths of Hindu Muslim rioting in India, nor the eventual split of Pakistan.
BS again.
If the Shia and Sunni have stopped killing one another in Iraq because they hate W, then that little bit of info has not made it into the news...
BS. Of course they hate W, but they have not stopped hating each other. And Ghandi, btw, could do nothing to prevent the massive deaths of Hindu Muslim rioting in India, nor the eventual split of Pakistan.
BS again.
Shia and Sunni have wanted to kill each other in Iraq for decades. But Saddam, dispite being a brutal dictator, knew how to run a police force. When his government was removed, it left anarchy, and the occupying coalition forces are really struggling to keep the peace.
"it left anarchy, and the occupying coalition forces are really struggling to keep the peace."
Understatement of the millenia.
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