jonathan-cunningham:

nefariousnewt:

More recently, ultra-Orthodox have taken to the streets to protest what they describe as persecution. They have received a lot of bad press as a result of attempts to enforce gender separation on public transportation and on city streets. As part of the protest, some dressed up as concentration camp prisoners.

It’s amazing how, in every instance, the fundamentalist portion of a Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religion feels they and their religious views are being ignored, or looked down upon or quashed, or that the rest of those in that particular milieu are not pious enough, and seeing that translate to a false sense of persecution when they go about doing anti-social and violent things.

Fundamentalism in religion is the root of the problem with religion. Religious faith is an individual choice, a personal journey, and even if you are part of a larger religious culture, you have no right to impose your viewpoint on others within that same culture. The Founding Fathers in America knew this, hence the First Amendment prohibition against government establishing or promoting a singular faith.

I can’t deny suffrage to women? Might as well be in a concentration camp, ugh!

reblogging for the commentary. couldn’t agree more