There are thousands of Israelis in the streets right now protesting religious extremism.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/art...In the Jewish City of Bet Shemesh, ultra-Orthodox men spat on an eight year old girl, "insulted her and called her a prostitute because her modest dress did not adhere exactly to their more rigorous dress code".
"Ultra-Orthodox men and boys from stringent sects have hurled rocks and eggs at the police and journalists, shouting ''Nazis'' at the security forces and assailing women reporters with epithets like ''whore'' and ''shikse'', a derogatory Yiddish term for a non-Jewish woman or girl."
Orthodox male soldiers have walked out of a ceremony where women soldiers were singing to adhere to a prohibition on hearing women's voices. Women in some bus routes are expected to sit in the back of the bus.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/fury-at-ultr...Some of the protest banners and signs compared the ultra orthodox zealots to Afghanistan's Taliban.
Are they similar? It is true that the Muslims, Jews and Christians share a common belief in the God of Abraham, and all of the sacred texts from the Torah, the Old Testament, and the Koran, originate from the same cruel tribes.
It seems that when there is a high percentage of any one of the three religions, that there arises extremist sects, that try to impose their harsh religious standards on all others.
Why is there such sexism and hatred of women among these religions? It seems that the religious extremists in each religion take their sacred texts literally. It seems that The God of Abraham was a cruel sadistic sexist.
As evidence break out your own copy of the Bible or Torah and read for yourself:
Genesis 3:16 Says that all women must suffer great pains during child birth due to Eve eating the fruit of knowledge.
Genesis 19:8 Tells of Lot who offers his daughters to a crowd to be raped. Later, Lot impregnates his own daughters after God kills his wife for simply looking back at the remains of her city.
Leviticus 15:19-30 explains how women who are menstruating are unclean, and that anything she touches should be avoided. Leviticus 18:19 Goes onto say that even LOOKING at a menstruating woman is wrong.
Leviticus 21:9 Explains that unchaste daughters of priests must be burnt to death.
Numbers 31: 14-18 God commands that all of the Midianites be slaughtered (including children and old) but that the virgin women should be kept to be raped.
Deuteronomy 20:13-15 Kill all the men and boys in the cities that God "delivers into your hands," but keep the women for raping.
Deuteronomy 21:11-14 If you see a pretty woman among the captives then just take her home and "go in unto her."
Deuteronomy 22:13-22 Women, be sure to keep the tokens of your virginity. Otherwise the men of your city may stone you to death.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 is one of the most cruel and sexist passages of the Torah. It says that women who are raped and fail to "cry out loud" in a populated area are most likely enjoying the attack should be killed.
The list goes on and on. Extremists can find many justifications in the Torah/Bible/Koran to kill, torture, rape, or start wars.
http://www.evilbible.com/The people who stole this country from the natives, were fleeing religious repression in Europe. Our founding fathers were smart enough to include in the Constitution prohibitions against the establishment of any official religions.
The right wing is still trying to establish the equivalent of a Christian Sharia law. I am glad that we have a strong Constitution to protect all of the women in our country.