Jewish Fatwa

I usually detest the word community because it is naive at best and racist at worst to group individuals together based on loose connections for the benefit of box ticking or stereotyping. Yet the word community seems to be fitting for our Jewish brethren, from the outside looking in they appear to stick together more than most and critique amongst them is relatively rare. For example, from a friend's Jewish employer I know that if someone Jewish hires someone from the community they cannot ever sack them lest they be ostracised by the rest of the community. Hence why this employer only hires from amongst the non-Jewish community! In terms of financial success, they have done well for such a small minority so they must be doing something right. Attempting to keep your fellow Jew or minority in employment is noble but there is apparently another sinister element to this mafioso type loyalty.

The New York Times reported that the Brooklyn DA recently arrested no less than 85 Jewish Orthodox men and women on charges of child sex abuse. This prompted 50 rabbis to sign a public denouncement in a Yiddish language denouncing the Hasidic family that snitched on the child abusers. They asked for any believer to kill the family that informed on fellow Jews. If only this story was about Muslims - it would have been the stuff of The Sun and Daily Mail dreams! Paedophiles Muslims and then a fatwa! Oh just imagine the headlines!

Further to that, in 1985 an Hasidic 'therapist', Avrohom Mondrowitz, was indicted for abusing five boys, but in the usual paedophile fashion, he was suspected of having abused more than 100 boys. He then fled to Israel, getting off scot-free until this very day as the real mafioso of the world - Israel, refuse to extradite him. Perhaps this is indicative of a bigger, political statement; the danger of loyalty trumping righteousness.

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Two sure fire table conversation killers - religion and politics

I know these are the two topics that you MUST avoid at a dinner party for fear of the designated black sheep label but hey, these are the two most important topics in my lil ol heart and this ain't no freakin dinner party. It's strange that we all have a sense of spirituality and faith no matter how shallow some may seem on the surface, pondering questions like 'Why are we here?' Yet religion is SUCH a taboo subject especially in Britain. Even fiery me very rarely talks about religion and that's still only with people who I'd trust with my life, and even then it's only at a surface level. In a society which is so liberated and free you're made to feel so uncomfortable and even foolish when speaking on something which permeates your every fibre, your body and soul; what you believe in.

Atheists or people who just plainly hate religion may think that people have always needed a comfort to bring them to terms with the hardships of life so we made up this concept of God or a higher spiritual being. That the main three monotheist religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are following the words of a book that was written by a bunch of men who thought that they were something special. That religions were just formed from cultures and their practices. That religions were made to brainwash people.

The latter has been said in front of me with no respect to my beliefs, my family and my intelligence. I theoretically retorted (when actually I just left the place immediately) with the fact that, fair enough if you think that these words were written by man but you believe newspapers today like The Sun like they were the word of God. If you don't believe in a supposed divine message that has the same principles coming from different countries centuries apart then you should also not believe everything written by so-called journalists who work for dodgy billionaires. Even if faiths were created to brainwash or guide people, they all preach doing good deeds and living your life in a humble peaceful way so what's actually wrong with that?

Religion is the main cause of wars and killing people they would reply. I would say Hitler was an atheist and was responsible for exterminating how many millions of Jews? Not to mention how many millions have been imprisoned, tortured and killed in the name of Communism (Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Soviet Union, China etc), a rejection of religion and God for the sake of the community and state, which is really just some old dictator. In modern times, segments of the secular West have gone to war in countries thousands of miles away from them in an apparent attempt to 'liberate' them killing thousands in the process, quite any oxymoron but that's another rant altogether. Clearly, people of faith and people without faith both cause insurmountable pain and suffering. To conclude, shit happens. And the last time I checked religion hasn't been the common denominator.


The Sun, Daily Mail et al 21st century line of argument against religion is; 'Look at the child abusing priests' and 'Bin Laden and all the other Islamic extremists'. Clearly you cannot expect even two next-door neighbours to act in unison  so why would you expect that from millions or billions of people from the same religion. Plus, if we believers were so brainwashed wouldn't every single one of us act homogeneously? Aaaah the governments of the world would love that!

 I'll save politiking for the next time...

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