The more they pull stunts like this, the more support they lose. This type of STUPIDITY is beneath contempt!

Uh no I would say it isn't THEIR lifestyle being attacked.

It's their need to control other people's lifestyles.

In fact, it is almost impossible to tell them apart on some issues.

And leave the rest of us alone? We should all be so lucky!

The need to make others be and do as one is - religion to me is man's way of controlling other men using God as the whip!

You've stolen my thoughts

Stop it!

not living our lives like they do. If they'd just mind their own business, they'd see they can do as they please and suffer only minor insults from a few while the vast majority of us just leave them alone.

As long as they keep attempting to enforce their religion and lifestyles on us, they will get the full force of just what the hell we think of them and their beliefs.

good!

it's not surprising their knowledge of history is screwed up.

That behavior outdoes Fred Phelps. Wow.

The concentration camp protests are by the mainstream Haredi group "Eidat Charedit".

Other anti-zionist Ultra-Orthodox groups involved include "Neturi Karta", "Satmar", and "Toldot Aharon".

I asked because I wondered whether it was mostly one group or several groups with different versions of orthodoxy.

...with a civil war inside Israel. The Israeli government is afraid to take a harsh stand against extremists and that will only embolden them.

and put them on a very small island and let them fight it out until only one group is left. Then sink the island.

Don't be offended but I accidentally bought wheat spaghetti last night and neither my daughters nor I really liked it.

Maybe even FSM is capable of making the occasional mistake?

Just...you know, putting that out there. (Don't hurt me, FSM.)

I agree with you!

And the mystical Muslims, Christians and Jews have a lot of common ground.

What is portrayed as "religious" war is usually an economic battle. So English colonialists versus oppressed Irish became Protestants versus Catholics.

They're every bit as intolerant and nasty as the others that have been mentioned....

Not all Buddhists are pacifists.

Maybe it's just a numbers thing?

Yes Buddhist Militarism is not up to the levels reached by judeao-christian-islamic religions, but characterizing Buddhism as pacifist is inaccurate, which was my point.

They don't make the news very much, probably because no Xian white people are being killed.

The 2010-2011 Burma Border clashes are a series of ongoing skirmishes between the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and splinter brigades of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA).

The clashes erupted along the border with Thailand shortly after the general election on 7 November 2010. An estimated 10,000 refugees have fled into nearby neighbouring Thailand to escape the violent conflict.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Burma_border_clashes

In 2001, Thailand and Myanmar (Burma) had a number of border clashes featuring heavy artillery duels.

According to Thailand, their Buddhist temples are frequently destroyed/vandalized by their invading neighbors. The reason: old myths about huge amounts of gold buried under the Buddha statues. Their version of the Ark of the Covenant scam, I guess.

(Speaking of "that whole Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere thing," I just recently watched the 2009 Chinese movie "City of Life and Death," about the 1937 Rape of Nanking. Well worth watching.)

The Buddhist government in Myanmar is as brutal and funamentalist as any, don't give me this bullshit "buddists are pacifists" argument. And the bullshit argument that Hindus want to be left alone; rioting in India by Hindu fundamentlists in India has killed millions of Muslims since partition.

You even got the Northern Ireland example completely wrong.

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to compare members of the Israeli police and military forces and government to Nazis. Looks like these ultra Orthodox have outdone everyone in the anti-semitism department.

I am glad my dad did not live to see this nuttery.

By the way... Israel has survived in spite of these nuts... I am not sure if it can survive because of these nuts.

They are the ones against any kind of arrangement and yes, against the mere existence of Israel as well.

Their last stunt (during the 67 war) was funny... stand in front of tanks on the way to the front because, well you cannot drive on the Sabbath... they've outdone themselves.

Not me, until today. Thanks for the clarification, ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Israel!

are you on crack?