“They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable,” Shlomo Amar, Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi, said yesterday at a news conference in Jerusalem attended by Israel’s two chief rabbis, the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches, and three senior Muslim prayer leaders. “It hurts all of the religions. We are all against it.”
Abdel Aziz Bukhari, a Sufi sheik, added: “We can’t permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem.”
If that’s all you knew of the article, you might think these were moderate, peace-loving religious figures who’d joined forces to condemn a radical, hate-mongering, anti-Semitic or anti-Arab or anti-somethingorother group that was planning to converge on Jerusalem for nefarious purposes. But no: in fact, it’s these guys (and yes, they’re all guys) who are doing the hating. They’re holding hands and singing “Kum By Freaking Ya” and telling anyone who’ll listen how evil homosexuals are and insisting that the international gay pride festival currently scheduled for August should be cancelled.
Calling us ugly and nasty? As opposed to what–all those sweet lil’ suicide bombers and mosque murderers that make Jerusalem such a great place to live? Pot, please meet kettle.
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