Outrage Over Beating Death Of "Unchaste" Five-Year Old Girl

[Big RR]

But that's the point, isn't it? What precisely is the government allowing? It's more like the religious authorities allow the government to have jurisdiction in some areas, not vice versa.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Again, what's the difference?
Seems Religion = government.
Both, either, allow this to happen and allow lenient punishment for it.

[Sue U]

And speaking of "Religion = government," news from our other besties in the region:

Women In Prayer Shawls Detained At Judaism's Holiest Site

by Larry Abramson
February 11, 2013 5:12 PM

Police in Jerusalem on Monday detained 10 women for wearing the tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl traditionally worn by men, while praying at the Western Wall.

The Women of the Wall have been fighting for years for permission to worship in the manner that men do at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism for prayer. The stone structure is part of the retaining wall that surrounded the Second Jewish Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70.

Men and women both pray at the wall, but in separate sections and under rules set by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, a body appointed and funded by the government. It is headed by an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, Shmuel Rabinowitz.

Frequent Protests

Many of the women at the wall Monday gather regularly on the first day of the Jewish calendar month to pray — and just as regularly, police detain them.

Women are not supposed to wear religious items such as prayer shawls at the Western Wall — or at least that's how the rabbi in charge interprets it, and police enforce his decision.

But Anat Hoffman, the leader of Women of the Wall, disagrees.

"Secular Israel, the democratic, Jewish state of Israel, has taken the keys to the holiest site of the Jewish people, and given it to one rabbi, who belongs to less than 8 percent of Israel's population," she says, referring to the country's ultra-Orthodox Jews.

More:
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/11/171728482 ... liest-site

The Haredi are the Taliban/Mutaween/Basiji of Israel, every bit as vile and disproportionately powerful.