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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 08:10 PM
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The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem's number 56 bus.

(Reuters) - The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem's number 56 bus.



Startled ultra-Orthodox Jewish men looked away as the group mounted a challenge to growing gender segregation in the holy city by boarding the public vehicle from the front door and sitting in its first rows.

As the male passengers averted their gaze, adhering to a traditional edict to avoid sexual temptation, a religious woman at the back of the bus shouted at the protesters: "Deal with the drugs, the crime and prostitution in your own communities first."

Buses and billboards, where some advertisers avoid posting images of women to avoid vandalisation, have become the latest battlefields in the fight for the soul of Jerusalem, a city sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians.

The boarding of bus 56, one of several segregated routes crossing ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods in the city, was the latest attempt by the Israel Religious Action Center IRAC.L, to end separate seating.

"The new fad is to distance one's self from women as a way to measure piety. The idea that sex is dirty is not part of Judaism. We have to plug this leak before it spills over," said Anat Hoffman, IRAC's executive director.

But a religious woman on the bus, who gave her name only as Bracha, said there was no humiliation in sitting in the rear.

"It is a response to secular extremism. Look how their women parade along the beach in a degrading way," she said.

Black-garbed ultra-Orthodox Jews, known as "Haredim", make up only about 10 percent of Israel's population of 7.7 million.

But their high birthrates and concentration in Jerusalem, where official figures show 26 percent of adult Jews consider themselves Haredim, have stoked fears among the country's secular majority of religious interference in their lifestyle.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/14/uk-israel-segregation-idUSLNE7AD0D420111114
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 08:13 PM
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1. Again, what is the diff between zealots of diff sects?
I'm not seeing much.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:30 PM
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8. Not a lot, especially as regards attitudes to gender roles.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 08:20 PM
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2. Yahweh/Jehovah/Allah hates chicks. nt
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femrap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 09:21 PM
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5. I don't know of an organized
religion that doesn't hate women.

You'd think that the jews and muslims would unite against 'their women.' They did to make sure that the ERA didn't pass.

Thanks you dick-head zealots.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 08:35 PM
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3. How brazen of them
Imagine, not wanting to be treated like second-class citizens. :wow:
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Humanist_Activist Donating Member (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 08:48 PM
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4. "their women"?!?
This is the issue, instead of viewing women as people, they view them as objects of desire and possession. Its sickening, even more so that a woman is the one who said this.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 10:07 PM
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6. Complicity by subjegated women is an integral...
...part of the enforcement of repressive female social rules. I find the most objectifying remarks come from other woman talking about who's a bitch or a slut or a dyke etc.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 04:01 PM
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7. Sounds a lot like some folks here on DU
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:31 PM
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9. Good for these women!
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