February 8, 2012
Published: 24 Jun 10 07:12 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100624-28069.html
Germany’s Jewish community has reacted with shock to a stone-throwing attack by Muslim children as young as 10 on a Jewish dance troupe performing at a Hannover festival, media reported Thursday.
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Of course, religious hatred doesn't stop there - did you know that God hates the Faroe Islands? Take look at this bunch of lunatics:
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=44009
Check out Handmaidens disgust of the city of Onancock! Hilarious but stay worried that the same extremism exists wherever there is a book written in the name of a God.
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=44975
I never know that Andrew Lloyd Weber was so dangereous!
Funny how when some Jewish person is an extremist, he's an "ultra-orthodox" jew but if a Muslim is ultra-orthodox, he's an "extremist".
Religion in general is BS and full of manipulation. I am tired of people pretending one is superior to the other.
@ Jibsy
Seriously...
Right behind you on that one. Richard Dawkins phrased it along the lines that children should never be referred to as "muslim children" or "christian children" but "children of muslim etc. parents". Spot on.
However let's not forget that the parents have also gone through the same indoctrination process.
The problem isn't even the religon/creed/whatever tribe (if they didn't exist, something else would replace them), but the people who twist their guidelines to their own ends.
Or was the "lalalalal" a reference to Lala land?
I'll go with the chocolate milk, though.
The most shocking bit is the ages of those displaying such a level of hatred which they would be hard ressed to explain or (not that it can be) justify.
Jews out? How about Lebanese, Palestinians, and Iranians out? Round up the whole lot of 30+ kids and their families, put them on a bus, and send them back to their wonderful homelands. Problem solved and lesson taught. Germany better establish some control over these idiots before rock-throwing turns into something much worse.
re: www.landoverbabtist.net is a parody site
You know, I did wonder! A friend from the Faroe Islands found it via a Google search and was between bemusement and outrage. I started to wonder when I saw that it is led by Pastor Billy Ruebin which I recall fron "Silence of the Lambs" as the chemical that colours faeces.
But if it is a parody, it has to be one of the best I've seen!Do many of the contributors know this?
Don't worry about the connection to Monica - she was my inspiration for this, my former stage name from when I played in a band called the Funky Presidents.
Please post some more parody sites - life is too short without them!
Problem is, that it is now okay by some people to trow stones at Jewish children in Germany.
I have never heard of anyone throwing stones at some dance group or other entertainment group. Ever.
2. It is typical of the Left to be apologists for the bad behavior of Muslims.
a. If, the Muslim religion is violent; they will go back to the middle ages and equate this with Christianity and the inquisition.
b. If, the Muslim children kill people, as stone throwers or little suicide bombers, then they will equate this with Israel defending their children. Jews do not teach their children to harm others or hate others. The textbooks of Arabs do teach their children to hate and kill.
c. It is easier to just lump Muslims and Jews and Christians together. Did someone forget that the Communist Atheists killed over 100,000,000. So much for your critique of religion.
Jews live in Germany and it is your responsibility to protect them. Don't rationalize and make excuses.
Regardless of what happened before 1945, it is simply not how things are now done in liberal, democratic, western Europe. And if non-citizen immigrants to Germany (or other EU countries) can't understand that, they should be sent home. Germany doesn't need to import the violence of the Middle East.
If people in Germany want to do something about the Middle Eastern situation, engage in political lobbying or fundraising for relief organizations. But we don't need stone-throwers in Hanover.
That rather depends on what year in history you are talking about, doesn't it? Jerusalem was captured and recaptured 44 times. Both sides say they have religion and history on their side; they are both right and wrong.
But Muslims (and everyone else) lose the sympathy vote when they throw stones at innocent people. Not to mention when they kill or attempt to kill someone who makes fun of their fearless leader.
?"The ?'Palestinian People?' does not exist. The creation of a ?'Palestinian State?' is only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel for our Arab entity. In reality there is no difference between Jordanians, ?"Palestinians?", Syrians and Lebanese. Only for tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a ?'Palestinian people,?' since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ?"Palestinian People?' to oppose Zionism.?"
Trans-Jordan was intended as the homeland for the present-day Gaza Scroungers and ?'king?' Adbullah knows it; his wife Rania is herself a ?'palestinian?'. The ?'jordanian royals?' make a big deal of swanning around Europe and America as the ?'moderate, modern?' phony image of Islam
Thank god I'm an atheist.
Ęqualitas non parit bellum
No, generally they just steal the passports of others to accomplish that.
Islam feels very comfortable in EU.
Some primers in USA (I saw that on Fox News a little befoe Xmas) claim that Jesus was a Palestinian.
Will both religions merge?
see:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=300357&id=100000467590539&ref=mf
At any rate, we know that Jews are not welcome in EUstan. What is surprising or not surprising that here they did not say "Israelis" out, they said "Jews" out, showing the roots of EURstan`s predilection.
How did the know that the children were Lebanese, Palestinian and Iranian descent?????????????????????????????
Did they wear Placards?????????????????????
Truly, give me a break.......
And the truth is, it's going to take a small miracle to solve that situation.
Someone, or a new group of very intelligent people are needed.
If you look closely at all religious and cultural problems, you may also agree that the UN has not done so well. It is the world's government agency. It is therefore their responsibility to think PROACTIVELY and help the various nations of the world avoid religious and cultural clashes.
Unless humanity subscribes to a new and effective form of Psychology, then what hope is there?
Were the children in the dance troupe Germans or Israeli?
Why the spot light on the word,,, term JEW??????
Just because it happened here in Germany is that why????
F.T.D = f that deal
By the way Prison does work. I think it was Regan who reacted to Car-Jackings by passing out 35 to Life sentences. The population of people inclined to car-jack quickly ceased to be a social problem in the larger sciety and now are tennis shoe thieves in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
It just doesn't work in countries that make excuses for violent criminals and continually return them to society.
I would turn the children over to child services, clearly the parents are unfit to be organizing such activities.
1)The organizers of this dance event are to blame for stupidly putting the dancers in a predominantly turkish area so soon after Israel attacked a Turkish aid ship to Gaza.
2)Common sense would dictate that this is not the right time to force an 'israeli' dance on inflamed youths.
So, this has nothing to do with religion, but with asking for trouble by creating such a politically idiotic engagement.
Also, who are these dancers? Are they German? If so, why are they performing 'Israeli' dances in a Turkish area?
And if they are 'Israeli', surely their organizers should have known better.
It seems that this event was deliberately orchestrated to inflame and subsequently get political mileage from 'moslems attack jews'.
The victims here are the dancers as well the hot hotheaded youths who fell into this trap and didn't have better sense not to throw stones at a cultural event, however geographically misplaced.
It's like Palestinians performing a dance in an israeli settlement.
Also not a smart move.
"This is horrible. Will the Jews have to hide their identity again in Europe?"
This was dbert4's answer: "No, generally they just steal the passports of others to accomplish that."
Jews are attacked in Europe and it seems that for many people the Jews themselves are those who must be blamed for the aggression due to Israel's policies; it has been asked here if the Jews attacked in Hannover were Germans or Israelis. This reminds me Malmö's Jews, who are fleeing their city due to harassment by muslim etremists and, to a lesser extent, radicals from the far left and the far right. Malmö's mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, responded to this problem by equating Zionism with racism and telling that Jews must distance themselves from Israel's policies.
And now I ask: what would the problem be if those Jews were Israelis instead of Germans? Because in such a case, aggressions committed by Jews against Germans would be understandable or even justifiable due to the Holocaust against the Jews; aggressions committed by Jews against Spaniards (such as myself) would be understandable or even justifiable due to the 1492 royal decree which made the Jews to convert to Christianism or to abandon Spain, and due to the Spanish inquisitorial practices against the Jews; aggressions committed by Jews against muslims would be understandable or even justifiable due to the muslim practice of considering the Jews inferior people known as dhimmis; aggressions committed by Jews against Italians would be understandable or even justifiable due to the Jewish Diaspora, caused by the Roman Empire; aggressions committed by Jews against American republicans would be understandable or even justifiable due to McCarthy's witch-hunt against supposed communists, mostly directed against Jews; aggressions committed by Jews against Russians would be understandable or even justifiable due to the pogroms against the Jews;...
Holy mother of God. If aggressions against Jews (Israeli or German ones) are understandable or even justifiable due to Israel's policies, understandable or even justifiable Jews' list of victims would be almost endless...
I was saying it was reckless of the organizers to endanger innocent dancers and have them perform an 'israeli' dance (whether by German Jews or Israelis) in such a location especially after Israel's recent attack of a
Turkish aid ship to Gaza.
Twisting my post to the point where you conclude that I'm saying aggressions against Jews are justifiable is totally disingenous.
It is completely ridiculous that one cannot make a single observation about anything remotely to do with Israel without having to get the really overused 'antisemitic' routine.
Again, I'll say it: Having the dancers perform in that location at that point in time was not a smart move.(I did NOT say that makes any form of aggression excusable, whether against Jews or anyone else).
So, presumably I'm not allowed in your book to even say that, as the organizer is probably Jewish and that will elicit another tirade of 'antisemitism' accusations. What a luxury! What other race, nation or religion has such an effective 'muzzle' on the slightest utterance that isn't completely a fawn fest?
Go ahead, call me an antisemite if that floats your boat.
I'll not call you an anti-Semite, Rover; what I'll do is to suggest you to think before writing. I mean, I never cited you or your comments specifically. I wrote what I wrote as a response to many of the comments.
Certainly, your last comment was not a smart move...