Dear Media and Activist list:
This article was sent to my by someone living in Beit Shemesh and sees from inside what is happening.
Subject: An article on beit shemesh that I feel is more accurate than the media
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It seems from this article and from this youtube taken by parents regarding recent headline news in Beit Shemesh that this is obviously not a matter of religious coercion or about modesty because the children were all dressed modestly but rather about a group of extremists called Sikrikim intent on intimidating children in order to get their hands on the school property and getting away with their harassment. Freedom of expression ends when there is verbal intimidation and when it inflicts fear into the hearts of innocent parties such as little children. It is the job of Police to protect the children from such verbal attacks rather than protect freedom of speech of these grown men who are scary looking and are yelling false and derogatory names at little girls. For Shame!
Is the Media spin on this confrontation way out of proportion, completely missing the point and creating the distorted news that there is deep friction between the Chareidi and the secular?
What is the Beit Shemesh Police doing to stop the intimidation of the Sikrikim and protecting the children? As the author writes "When a small group of thugs intimidate everyone else into complacency, they indirectly gain power".
Robin Ticker
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