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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 08:33 AM
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Indonesian protesters of Gaza op call for country's only synagogue to close
Islamic hard-liners in Indonesia are calling for the closure of the country's only synagogue as a protest to Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Protesters enraged by Israel's three-week-long operation in Gaza marched to the synagogue's gates chanting, "Go to hell, Israel!"

The only Jewish religious site in the world's most populous Muslim state - which has no rabbi and only a few followers - then closed its doors.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056186.html
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GoesTo11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 09:46 AM
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1. This is why Jews need a homeland
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Vegasaurus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 10:09 AM
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2. Absolutely nt
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 10:13 AM
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3. but not here
in the lands of the prophet of course ;)
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 11:57 AM
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4. Where is "here" ?
You want to relocate the Israelis to another location?
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 02:57 PM
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8. read the article
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 03:03 PM
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10. Hey I posted the article!
I did read it - I just didn't see what you were getting at.

Right, so Indonesia wants the Israelis to leave, but not to come to their country.

It's so sad to look at the world today and think of how badly ignorance and hatred have screwed everything up.
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 03:16 PM
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11. I see you did. But it's a no brainer as the article points out.
There are few people left who call themselves 'Jews" and as for the buildiing ?


two options;
I suspect it will be turned into a publc rest room, or burned in a public outrage.






ignorance is bliss


http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14227&size=A


but some are more equal then others
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/16/europe/EU-France-Anti-Semitic-Attack.php
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 02:38 PM
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6. How about Texas?
Let's see how long before Texans get as tired of the Occupation as the Palestinians.

An injustice is not resolved by another injustice.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 04:35 PM
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13. Texas eventually lost their battle for independence
Edited on Sat Jan-17-09 04:35 PM by oberliner
The occupation continues unabated - just switched occupiers.

Here's the Texas Declaration of Independence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Declaration_of_Independence
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 02:36 PM
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5. The acceptance here and elsewhere for the religous intolerance of Muslim nations and areas never
ceases to amaze me.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 02:40 PM
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7. Intolerance? How about the time ultra-religious Jews attacked women rabbis
at the Western Wall for daring to carry a Torah?

You have no idea how intolerance is so deeply ingrained in all monotheistic religions, without exception.
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 03:03 PM
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9. how many women imams are there preaching in mosques? just wondering about the rules
Edited on Sat Jan-17-09 03:05 PM by ohio2007
You have no idea how intolerance is so deeply ingrained in all monotheistic religions, without exception,

but you will overlook the log in your own eye to criticize the splinter in another's LOL

say
How about the January 15th deadline set in Pakistan concerning the "no child left behind"...except females educational program ?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3660502&mesg_id=3660502
They like their women dumb.
cuz

they like to punish the stupid ;)
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 03:17 PM
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12. That a small group, not national policy
- Try being a Bahá'í in a muslim country
- Try building a chrstian church in Saudi, Egypt, or any other muslim nation
- Try being a non-muslim in a muslim area of India, Indonesia, and parts of London or Paris.

Some religions in practice are much more tolerant of their neighbors than others...to lump them all together as being of the same stripe is nonsense.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 04:36 PM
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14. Thankfully Israel is a secular state
Would that there were more like it in the region.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 06:50 PM
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15. Not quite!
Let's stop drinking the Kool-Aid and clinging to myths. The ultra-religious enjoy special privileges and influences that far outstrips their numbers. The increasing influence of the religious right in Israel poses as much of a threat to Israel's freedoms as the Islamic radicals sworn to Israel's destruction.

Of course, we Americans sure got a lot of room to talk about Israel since we ourselves have allowed the pernicious influence of religion to threaten our democratic institutions and personal liberties.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 06:57 PM
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16. I don't disagree with your points
However it is still a secular state - certainly moreso than most of the other states in the region.

The religious right in Israel is powerful and dangerous, but is kept in check by the majority of the population who do not adhere to their views.

I don't think the same can be said for many of the countries across the Middle East.

I share your concern about the power of the religious right in the US as well.
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