Jewish court sentences dog to death by stoning

[trud]

Source: AFP

"A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago, Ynet website reported Friday...

The canine target, however, managed to escape.

"Let the Animals Live", an animal-welfare organisation filed a complaint with the police against the head of the court, Rabbi Avraham Dov Levin, who denied that the judges had called for the dog's stoning, Ynet reported.

One of the court's managers, however, confirmed the report of the lapidation sentence to Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110617/od_afp/israeltrialreligionanimalsoffbeat

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Those horrible Muslims. Oh, wait.

[aquart]

1. Does the Jewish court know that Jews do not believe in reincarnation?

And honey lamb? This loony tunes court (are you sure this isn't the Israeli Onion?) is stoning a dog. Muslim courts sentence WOMEN to stoning. Which I'm sure you can rationalize in some fine and dandy way.

[xchrom]

3. that's what i thought. nt

[aquart]

4. Yah. This is very nutty.

[elleng]

12. Yea, thought this was Onion.

[Autumn Colors]

10. Hassidic Jews do (see: Kabbalah) (nt)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

20. Not true. I worked with an Orthodox rabbi's wife. She said that after purgatory

it is not known what happens to the soul. That leaves reincarnation a possibility.

[xchrom]

2. alright before i call the ass holes -- which i did --

is it true or not.

aquart points out -- these rabbi's shouldn't believe in reincarnation.

the link isn't the onion.

[JackRiddler]

30. As the source, Yahoo cites the Israeli daily paper, "Yediot Aharonot."

The beliefs of religious fanatics do not have to be consistent.

In this case, it's not so much a belief in reincarnation as this "court" believing in the power of its own curse.

They were just jealous that all the coverage of total-idiot fanatics was going to the rapture freaks.

[harmonicon]

5. HAHA! You beat me to it!

Those horrible Muslims, indeed.

[xchrom]

6. but there is a good chance this isn't real.

there shouldn't be any reincarnation w/ those rabbi's.

and the dog ran off, too.

[harmonicon]

8. I agree....

but I've seen people get really bent out of shape on DU about things that seem even less legit.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Ynet

""It was ordered by the rabbis because of the grief he had caused the court," he said. "They didn't issue an official ruling, but ordered the children outside to throw stones at him in order to drive him away. They didn't think of it as cruelty to animals, but as an appropriate way to 'get back at' the spirit which entered the poor dog.""

http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-4082843,00.html

And the mask falls away@!

[elleng]

13. Oh nice, much better

;(
Happy Saturday morning.

[JNelson6563]

15. Thank you!

[dballance]

9. That is F***ing NUTS

So are they going to start witch trials now? How ignorant can you possibly be? Condemning a poor dog? Stupid is really rampant among the religious.

[Duppers]

11. Here's the BBC link to the true story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13819764

and Jewish World net:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4082843,00.html


Insanity!!

[FLPanhandle]

14. Religious fundamentalists are a pox on humanity

I despise them them all.

[Pirate Smile]

27. The fundamentalist nut bags of all Religions cause most of the problems - Christian, Jewish & Muslim

Their influence on Governments and Foreign Policy hurts everyone.

[piratefish08]

16. next thing you know, they'll be burning witches......

[hatrack]

17. Fucking Bronze Age buffoons

:eyes:

[CanonRay]

18. Once again we demonstrate the brilliance of religious thinking.

Can you tell I despise zealots of any stripe?

[Motown_Johnny]

19. more proof that all religious extremists are nuts regardless of denomination

the extremism itself is the enemy

[Honeycombe8]

21. This is horrible. Poor dog. They are so vulnerable to human evil. nt

[ellenrr]

22. now, if the dog had broken the Sabbath I could see it.....

[geckosfeet]

23. Christian court sentences women to death by hanging

February 25, 1692: Tituba, at the request of neighbor Mary Sibley, bakes a "witch cake" and feeds it to a dog. According to an English folk remedy, feeding a dog this kind of cake, which contained the urine of the afflicted, would counteract the spell put on Elizabeth and Abigail. The reason the cake is fed to a dog is because the dog is believed a "familiar" of the Devil.

Theologically based paranoid fear and hate never goes out of style.

Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692

History of Witchcraft Persecutions

[XanaDUer]

24. K'd and R'd

Insane.

[mucifer]

25. This is a fundamentalist neighborhood in Israel where if you drive thru there on the Sabbath

people will often throw stones at your car because you are dishonoring G-d by working on the Sabbath.

Stories about throwing stones at dogs always seem to trump throwing stones at people:


Hardly a week goes by in Mea She'arim without a stone-throwing incident, the torching of garbage containers or the blocking of streets. The public has gotten so used to the violence there that it's hard to notice that a new phenomenon has sprung up. In the past, the violence took place in the neighborhood mainly because of religious struggles. Now the very entrance of a government agency or service provider is a pretext for protest. Mea She'arim has become a dangerous place to visit.

In March, for example, police officers were attacked when they answered a call to break up a fight between a landlord and his tenants. In December, someone there painted "An end to filthy pictures" on the motorbike of a cable-company technician. Attacks on buses, window smashing and tire puncturing have become routine in Mea She'arim. On April 1, the ultra-Orthodox Web site Kikar Hashabbat reported: "Passersby tell us that dozens of yeshiva students threw stones at a bus while some of their friends tried to block it with garbage cans. The rioters were trying to get on the bus to separate the male and female passengers."

The neighborhood has become a lawless no-man's-land. It's part of the ultra-Orthodox community's process of radicalization. But there's no reason for radicalization to lead to unrestrained violence. These are not isolated excesses - large crowds take part in the incidents. Mea She'arim is ruled by the rabbinical court of the Eda Haredit, the extreme ultra-Orthodox group that could stop the riotous behavior if it wanted to. But it doesn't want to.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-mea-she-arim-mob-1.289570

[XanaDUer]

26. Is this a real story?

?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

28. Yes it is.

[XanaDUer]

29. Then wow.

nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. I don't know why they have to punish the dog/secular lawyer again by killing it. The lawyer

was cursed to become a dog in his next life. Well, that happened! Wasn't that punishment enough?

So happy the pup escaped. This is insane.

[G_j]

32. yikes! nt

[Earth_First]

33. Comment retracted after reading PCIntern's thread...

"...the details of the 'story' begin to be fleshed out, it turns out, naturally, that the newspaper had to retract the story, etc. That means that it wasn't (entirely) true.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1323888&mesg_id=1323888

[trud]

34. sure

I notice he has no link to any retraction, however.

[UndertheOcean]

35. This is stupid rather than cruel , surely they are not serious !