Tikkun Olam

Please read my previous post first.  This is sort of a sequel to it: Saudi Arabian Islamic women are fighting being 'enslaved,' as it were, by filing lawsuits against the government from preventing them from driving cars.  I firmly believe that certain totalitarian religions will eventually implode.

There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when ultra-Orthodox parents would sit shiva if a child of theirs left Orthodox Judaism.  To them, it was as if their child had died. That does not sit well with me, to say the least.  My child will always be my child, and I will love them forever--even if they choose a path of life different than mine.  I would prefer, of course, that they continue to be religious, even a little.  Why? Because I believe it is one of the most wonderful religions out there. Orthodox Judaism has a beautiful way of life--regardless of whether it is "true" or not.  Because I tried, as best I could with the tools that I had, to teach them the positive values of our religion, the beauty, kindness, love, which are manifested through chesed * and tzedakah *, caring for others in the community, in our close Orthodox kehilah *. The Jewish religion, as practiced through the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly rituals, plain and simple: makes t...

When will you learn, people? What will it take for you to actually recognize the threat to Western civilization, and have to courage to name it?  For it is Islam .  Period. This is what Saudi Arabian children are learning in their high school textbooks, sanctioned by the Saudi government: Sharia law.  You want some of this? I don't want these people as my neighbors.  But, if we don't wake up and smell the blood-on-the-cleavers-and-knives , we will get some of this, whether we like it or not.   Read this horror story below.  And then tell me that "all religions are equal." The Arabic school textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law By Leon Watson Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged. The shocking books, paid for and printed by the Saudi government, also tell teenagers that Jews need to b...