Comments on: Je Suis Burkini…writes Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence

By: pam hopf

pam hopf — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 02:36:01 +0000

Is Lawrence equally incensed by the religious police in countries like Saudi Arabia – even seemingly moderate UAE, where people have been arrested for kissing on the beach and wearing immodest clothing? Will he put his money where his mouth is and visit a beach in Saudi Arabia, carrying a large banner proclaiming “Je suis bikini”, or even submit an article to that effect in one of their media outlets? Or is the usual armchair moraliser, pontificating from the comfort of safe and free Australia?

By: michael Burd

michael Burd — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:52:28 +0000

Eleonora you make a good point , Can a western woman visiting any Muslim country like Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , UAE or Iran for example walk around in short shorts, or wear a bikini in the public don’t they have a strict dress code that we infidels have to abide by .
Don’t these bigoted , racist Muslim countries most by the way that do not allow Israeli Jews to enter their shit -holes have strict dress rules. Why are so many in the west including some that post on this web site so tolerant to these intolerant back ward people ?

By: Adrian Jackson

Adrian Jackson — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:33:43 +0000

The Supreme Court in France has rules that this Bukini ban is illegal.

Well we all knew that the hillbilly local governments on the French Mediterranean coast were wrong and stupid.

By: pam hopf

pam hopf — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:17:11 +0000

In reply to michael Burd.

Fortunately, Jews don’t regard rabbis as having superior wisdom, so their opinions are weighed purely on their merits – or otherwise! While rabbis are able to take services and expound on texts, this does not translate into having a grasp on other affairs, as exemplified by this article. To compare the treatment of a woman in a burkini with that of victims of Nazis is odious and smacks of making a moral equivalence between the two situations. Muslims are not the victims here. As for comparing wearing a burkini with covering up to protect against the sun’s uv, this is simply facile. He might as well compare “the white hoods of the KKK” with covering up while he’s at it!
There is a reason the burkini is regarded with suspicion, as it is a symbol of radical Islam, which has caused havoc throughout Europe in recent years. Yet the good rabbi sees no difference between it and wearing a crucifix or a kippa. He then makes an astonishing leap between banning the burkini and asking “Is that not a short step to the destruction of ancient tombs of and idolatrous temples, the vandalism of heritage in Palmyra?” Has he stopped to reflect just which religion is doing the destroying?
My advice to Rabbi Lawrence: just stick to praying!

By: Shirlee Finn

Shirlee Finn — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:09:54 +0000

My sentiments exactly Michael Burd. Jeremy Lawrence sure doesn’t speak for all Jews, and in fact like Michael, I too am embarrassed to read this dhimmi drivel. Didn’t we and Christians live for long enough under Islam as dhimmis for him now to be defending it?

The whole point is that France is a secular country which has had more than enough trouble with Muslims and Islam.

This ‘garment’ is a symbol of the political, misogynistic ideology, which masquerades as a religion, Islam. It has absolutely NOTHING at all to do with the religion, it’s purely a cultural thing invented by men designed to subjugate women.

By: Adrian Jackson

Adrian Jackson — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:58:45 +0000

MacDonald’s should stop calling there chips “French Fries”.

By: Adrian Jackson

Adrian Jackson — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:54:52 +0000

State sponsored French terrorism saw a Greenpeace photographer killed when they blow a hole in the “Rainbow Warrior” ship in Auckland Harbour over 25 years ago.

Then there was the French atomic bomb tests in our back yard at Murora Atoll.

The French also go in strike if they have to work more that 35 hours a week or cant have a two hour lunch with a few bottles of wine.

There farming is heavily subsidized as there farms are either to small or inefficient.

The French Army has not won a war, by themselves without allied, since the battle of Austerlitz in about 1804.

Viva La France !!

By: michael Burd

michael Burd — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:36:16 +0000

I applaud the French Government for finally taking the Muslim problem in France seriously and at least making a token attempt to tell Muslims to assimilate in France like all other minority religious groups .
The Muslim community in France want to be treated differently to all other French minorities and when they don’t get their way they have the far left , socialists and no shortage of dhimmi Jews to fight their causes.

By: Eleonora Mostert

Eleonora Mostert — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:14:51 +0000

Oops… aren’t the Muslims already telling us what we can and can’t wear? Where we can and can’t pray? Aren’t the Muslims raping and sexually harnessing woman world wide? So what’s the problem with the French telling a Muslim to take her burkini gear off?? As for hiding bombs, she may not be fat but filled with explosives. So why are you sticking up for the Muslims who do this continuously to Westerners??? Why do they have separate rules. Where is the Muslim tolerance.

By: michael Burd

michael Burd — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:24:32 +0000

Its about time the French took the problem they are facing more seriously but I fear too little too late and Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence you don’t speak for all Jews in fact this Jew is embarrassed to read your drivel >