Ritual terrorism: Hating Obama as a new form of religion

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Ritual terrorism: Hating Obama as a new form of religion
By Bradley Burston

When I was young, I was taught that the purpose of religion was to foster compassion through lovingkindness, to seek peace by example, to perform with human hands the work of angels.

Then I moved to the Holy Land.

If ever the history of religion were written in blood, it was here. If ever religion has drowned history in blood, this is the venue. If ever the sword has beaten the plowshare, whether brandished along with the Old Testament, the New, or the Koran - we can show you the spot. And, more recently, if ever religion has succeeded in keeping peace, reconciliation, even the United Nations and the United States, at bay, ours is the place and time.

So it should have come as no surprise, I suppose, that a cluster of people here, people who cloak themselves in the garb of the pious, have decided to marry their furious loathing of Barack Obama to the custom of their faith, and to do what some in America have been doing for more than a year now: Hating Barack Obama as a new form of religious observance.

Once, on the holiday of Lag B'Omer, which falls this Saturday night, children cast into bonfires images of Adolf Hitler and others who have preached and in some cases practiced the mass killing of Jews.

This year, ahead of the Saturday night observance, professed followers of Meir Kahane have openly boasted of preparing effigies of the American president for distribution and incineration in bonfires across the country.

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http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1165443.html

[rfranklin]

1. Teabaggin' is a worldwide phenomenon...

know by many names.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Sickening..absolutely sickening.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Is there anything that poor guy can do that is right?

I honestly don't know how he does it. To know there are so many people out there that hate him so much, yet he continues to reach out to everyone, is beyond comprehension. I fear for his safety, yet he appears in public as though he is revered by all.

I guess I've never understood this Israel thing completely. They have fought for so many years, I can't keep track of it all.

This is plain and simply sickening.

[damntexdem]

4. Meir Kahane was basically a Nazi himself.

He stated that his only objection to the Holocaust was that Jews were killed.