Re: Kol Isha Redux

[BlackMonk <BlackMonk...>]

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From: <Elrosen (at) aol(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Kol Isha Redux


> I know that this issue is a sore point (to say the least) for many on the
list, but I hardly see this as an excuse for branding Orthodox Jews who hold
by Kol Isha as "holding people hostage", or worse, equating them with the
Taliban. I hardly think it appropriate to compare them to the group that
supports the Al-Quaeda terrorists who have shown only barbarianism in their
mass-murder attacks in New York. Perhaps I misunderstood and one only meant
to compare them to fundamentalist Muslims (who also support the murder of
innocent civilians in the name of religion). At what point are we going to
say that name-calling is enough? How far do the insults have to go until we
realize that there is intolerance here?>

You're on the list, too. You have the opportunity to educate everyone as to
how Orthodox Jews forbidding women to sing in the presence of men is NOT
like fundamentalist Muslims requiring women to wear a burqua.

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