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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:22 PM Jul 2015

6 stabbed at Jerusalem gay pride march — allegedly by Orthodox Jew who just got out of prison for si

6 stabbed at Jerusalem gay pride march — allegedly by Orthodox Jew who just got out of prison for similar attack
A homosexual-hating Orthodox Jew stabbed six marchers Thursday at Jerusalem’s annual gay pride parade before he was wrestled to the ground.

Yishai Schlissel, who had recently been released from prison for stabbing several people at a gay pride parade in 2005, attacked without warning as the marchers were going through the Jewish side of the divided city, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.

Dressed in a dark suit, Schlissel stabbed several people in the back as cheers turned to screams and blood spattered on the street.

“I saw an ultra-Orthodox youth stabbing everyone in his way,” witness Shai Aviyor told Israel's Channel 2 television. “We heard people screaming, everyone ran for cover, and there were bloodied people on the ground.”

While medics rushed in to take care of the wounded, police officers on horseback corralled the bearded suspect before he could do more harm, Samri said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/6-stabbed-jerusalem-gay-pride-march-article-1.2309506

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6 stabbed at Jerusalem gay pride march — allegedly by Orthodox Jew who just got out of prison for si (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Jul 2015 OP
Orthodox Jew = Fundy. Archae Jul 2015 #1
Just a point of order MosheFeingold Jul 2015 #12
Thank you mercuryblues Jul 2015 #14
Why is it the CONSERVATIVES who are always trying to kill liberal people??? MADem Jul 2015 #2
Jesus. There's a photo of him actually stabbing a woman DirkGently Jul 2015 #3
I think she escaped harm. NutmegYankee Jul 2015 #15
Religion, the gift that keeps on giving! nt haikugal Jul 2015 #4
It looks like he gets off on stabbing people, especially women. Warpy Jul 2015 #5
This fucker just got out of jail for stabbings... TreasonousBastard Jul 2015 #6
In the USA, he would still be warehoused. Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #10
Fundymentpatient religulon hifiguy Jul 2015 #7
Thank you, Desert Sky God, for providing the firm moral footing I need for my life! hatrack Jul 2015 #8
Grotesque. I hope this hatred is not institutionalized. Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #9
very lenient sentence the first time, should be a mandatory life sentence this time. geek tragedy Jul 2015 #11
How is this guy not seen as a terrorist Crunchy Frog Jul 2015 #13

Archae

(46,261 posts)
1. Orthodox Jew = Fundy.
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:25 PM
Jul 2015

And "da rulz" don't apply to fundys, doncha know?

Seriously, this guy is a psycho.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
12. Just a point of order
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 05:09 PM
Jul 2015

This guy was Hardedi, allegedly Neturei Karta.

While, yes, the NK are "Orthodox Jews," they are Haredi (a mystical sect), and the NKs are a rather fringe sect of the fringe, in that they hate basically everyone but themselves. They number less than 100, if this really is NKs.

These guys were in Jerusalem long before the mid-1800s when modern Israel began to re-form. They hate modern Israel, hate other Jews especially, and are overwhelmingly on the dole.

In short, they are the Westboro Baptist Church of Judaism.

I am an Orthodox Jew. Yes, I wear a kippah. And tallit. No, I don't dress in a black suit and ugly hat as mandated by a Polish king in an prototype version of the Nuremberg Laws.

Another Orthodox Jew of whom you might be familiar with is Justice Kagan of the US Supreme Court.

I'd also compare and contrast the treatment of this criminal in Israel with the neighboring states, including the PA. In those states, he would not be arrested. In those states, gays are punished by death. Only in Israel do homosexuals have the same rights as others in the middle east.

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
14. Thank you
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 06:11 AM
Jul 2015

for informing me that this sect is similar to the WBC in many ways. I suspected as much, but without context and confirmation you saved me a whole lot of google time.

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)
3. Jesus. There's a photo of him actually stabbing a woman
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:28 PM
Jul 2015

right in the back. Don't click if you don't want to see that.

Three weeks after his release for stabbing people at a previous gay pride parade?

Hope they get this person of the streets for good this time.

NutmegYankee

(16,177 posts)
15. I think she escaped harm.
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 06:24 AM
Jul 2015

If you look closely, you can see that the blade hasn't made it to her and the police are just grabbing the stabber.

Warpy

(110,903 posts)
5. It looks like he gets off on stabbing people, especially women.
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:41 PM
Jul 2015

The intelligent thing to do would be to keep him away from both knives and women for the rest of his rotten patriarchal life.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
11. very lenient sentence the first time, should be a mandatory life sentence this time.
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:53 PM
Jul 2015

they owe it to the rest of society, especially the GLBT members of society, to keep this dangerous nutjob locked up for life.

Crunchy Frog

(26,548 posts)
13. How is this guy not seen as a terrorist
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 04:26 AM
Jul 2015

and treated as such by the Israeli govt.? What would they do to a Palestinian who committed an identical crime?

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