Not on only did the Beersheba municipality state that an active mosque in a Jewish city is a threat to its security, but the mayor even referred to Muslim prayers as “incitement”.
Here’s a report from the International Middle East Media Center:
Mosque in Beersheba to Remain an Islamic Museum
The Beersheba Municipality has rejected a petition by the Bedouin Muslims of the Negev to pray in the old mosque of Beersheba.
The Baseiso mosque was built in 1906 by the Ottoman Empire and served as a mosque until 1950. At that time, the Israelis decided to convert the mosque into a Museum for Islamic and Israeli culture.
The High Court of Justice rejected a petition by the Negev’s Muslim Committee and the Bedouin Rights Protection Foundation to convert the museum into a mosque for local Muslims to use it for prayer.
The Municipality stated that, “an active mosque in the heart of a Jewish city is unthinkable.” They also claimed that converting the museum back into a mosque for public prayer would threaten the city’s security.
Beersheba Mayor Rubik Danilovich stated that, “the city views Muslim prayer as an element of incitement.”
There remains no active center for the five thousand Muslims remaining in Beersheba, which compels them to pray on the street, in other public places, or not at all.
Since 1948, the population of Beersheba is mostly Jewish with no significant Arab population.
Hat tip: TV.
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The older I get & the more I see, the more I think that people who are too lazy to do any of their own research, or who are too stupid to think for themselves, or who are true believers in some multicultural fantasy land, will inevitably call out 'racist' and 'facist' and so forth whenever you say ANYTHING that is not perfectly in tune with what they think is okay.
So we might as well not bother about that, and not waste time being all mealy-mouthed about things. State the facts. Everyone else will just have to deal with it.
“an active mosque in the heart of a Jewish city is unthinkable.”
As unthinkable as a church in Mecca,perhaps. What's the difference?
Think Gavin the lawyer would be interested in this?
Beersheba Mayor Rubik Danilovich stated that, “the city views Muslim prayer as an element of incitement.”
At which point Beersheba Muslims declared that being refused access to the mosque was ...
Wait for it ...
AN INCITEMENT! (Who could have foreseen that?)
mace: As unthinkable as a church in Mecca, perhaps. What's the difference?
The difference is as vast as it is important. By comparison, Saudi culture is totally homogeneous. (Attempting to include its foreign guest worker population is to paint a false picture of things.)
In contrast, Israel has a huge Muslim population plus mosques and the whole meghilla. You can carry a Bible, Qur'an or the Bhagavad Gita into Ben Gurion International Airport and not have it summarily confiscated and be jailed for possession of contraband literature.
As far as I know, Christian, Jew or Muslim can approach the Wailing Wall. None but Muslims may tread on the soil of Mecca.
While you may have been sarcastic, the core truth that surrounds your point is a hard and nagging fact that just won't go away.
For all of its faults, and they are many, Israel is LIGHT YEARS ahead of every Muslim country and there is no appropriate equivalency to be drawn between them.
@ zenster --
boy, you're obviously in the pay of those Zionists...great benefits, hmm? All the gefilte fish you can eat. Lucky you.
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I haven't followed the Saudi/Delta Airlines story but your comment reminded me it's been a news item of late.
Fortunately, I never fly so this is merely by-stander interest.
Jewish Rumor about Delta Airlines
Jonah Goldberg's take at NRO.
In short order this whole meme will take a turn into "Jewish Humor about Delta Airlines" and then everyone will go back to staring at Weiner pictures.
BTW, when//if he gets out of the rest home, myabe he'll start his own private brand of men's undies: Wonderfully Weiner Wear.
Oops. The vultures have been there and done that: 6 mln hits.
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Be sure to check out the comment section on Goldberg's post. There is some real distributed intelligence from ppl who understand the airlines biz.
Like, Who knew from codeshare??
Dymphna: All the gefilte fish you can eat. Lucky you.
Actually, I'm in it for all that luscious matzoh.
I almost submitted the codeshare story to GoV's news feed but was distracted by another more outrageous Syrian item about Assad battling "terrorists". [spit]
Here is a sampling of some comments from the NRO thread:
RobL: ... I’ve said many times before; the treatment of Jews in a society is a marker of the society in general. When things go sour for Jews it does not portend well for the rest. So while this Delta deal is a small story on paper its another check on a recently expanding list of acceptable slights against the rights of a segment of our citizenry.
denroy: Of course it's a story. Delte agrees to the "NO Jews allowed" sign being posted in it's front window. How is that not a story? Shouldn't these stories be front page headlines? The media(lame-stream version) and Democrats(lame-brain version) are always talking up those progressive moderate Islamist while hiding the facts. Let the facts make headlines for a change.
DonnaDiorio: You are right, sir, this is NOT a non-story and good on you for not going quietly.
Just like Shariah-compliant banking products that are creeping into the U.S., we should not tolerate Islamic discrimination standards to be accepted in our American businesses.
Where is the outrage over discrimination? Does not apply to Islamist discrimination?
"Islamic Finance" is like an Installment Contract from "the BAD Old Days" as in how much interest forgiven on an early payoff?
Answer - NOTHING! Shariah Compliance would have it NO OTHER WAY.
Dr. Shalit
Since 1948, the population of Beersheba is mostly Jewish with no significant Arab population.
There remains no active center for the five thousand Muslims remaining in Beersheba...
The population of Beersheeba is over 190,000. Five thousand Muslims is 5,000 too many.
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