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Ultra-Orthodox Jew Who Stabbed Six at 2015 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Sentenced to Life in Prison
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/06/26/ultra-orthodox-jew-who-stabbed-six-at-2015-jerusalem-gay-pride-parade-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/Last summer, during a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, an ultra-Orthodox Jew named Yishai Schlissel went on a rampage, stabbing six people and killing one of them, a 16-year-old girl. His ultra-Orthodox community is known for its “hostility towards homosexuals.”
It wasn’t his first time committing an act like this, either. In 2005, he stabbed three people and was sentenced to a dozen years in prison. He had been released for just a few weeks before he decided to strike again at last year’s parade.
The question now was whether his punishment for the more recent stabbings would be appropriately severe. I’m happy to say he’ll be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
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I’d still like to know if his ultra-Orthodox community is doing anything substantive to curb the anti-LGBT rhetoric that led Schlissel to think killing others was necessary. If they don’t see a problem with their religious hate speech, it’s likely this won’t be the last time we hear of a tragedy of this sort.
It wasn’t his first time committing an act like this, either. In 2005, he stabbed three people and was sentenced to a dozen years in prison. He had been released for just a few weeks before he decided to strike again at last year’s parade.
The question now was whether his punishment for the more recent stabbings would be appropriately severe. I’m happy to say he’ll be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
...
I’d still like to know if his ultra-Orthodox community is doing anything substantive to curb the anti-LGBT rhetoric that led Schlissel to think killing others was necessary. If they don’t see a problem with their religious hate speech, it’s likely this won’t be the last time we hear of a tragedy of this sort.
Hmm, some will insist religion had nothing to do with his actions. So what can we blame it on? America's lax knife laws? Our invasion of Iraq?
