Palestinian fury as 'Jewish settler' arson attack kills child Jerusalem Gay Pride: Six stabbed 'by ultra-Orthodox Jew'
BBC: July 30, 2015 Israeli police have arrested a man after six people were wounded in a stabbing at the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem. A police spokesperson identified the suspect as the same man who stabbed three people at the parade in 2005. Yishai Schlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for that attack and was released from prison three weeks ago. Two of the injured are in a serious condition, medics said. The attacker emerged behind marchers and began stabbing them while screaming, before being tackled by a police officer...more |
Knife in hand,
you murder innocents at a Pride Parade because you despise their love. Cloth soaked in gasoline, stuffed into bottles, you murder babies because they are Palestinian, living in Palestinian territories. You hate the loving and the living that you can’t terrorize into conformity. If your religion hates loving, If your Torah hates being, If your tradition hates difference, then I tell you now: your religion isn’t godly, your Torah isn’t holy, your tradition is idolatry. Our God tells the rest of us that all people “are made in God’s image,” that “love is stronger than death,” that we are commanded “to love our neighbors,” which means “one law for yourself and the stranger.” Above all, we must “seek peace and pursue peace.” Somehow, you missed the point of it all. There are only three responses to you shriveled zealots: you do not act in our name, nor God’s, you do not speak for our faith, you will be stopped. Turns out that God has also taught us that we must pull the murderers from God’s very altar. And we shall. |