Friday, August 2, 2013
Fundamentalists Smash Bus After Woman Didn't Move to the Back
Israeli police say they have arrested an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man for demanding women move to the back of a bus, sparking protests that saw bus windows smashed.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says Wednesday's incident occurred in the devoutly religious neighborhood of Beit Shemesh. He says ultra-Orthodox demonstrators in the neighborhood smashed the windows of three nearby buses while protesting the arrest. There were no injuries and no further arrests."*
Ultra-Orthadox Jewish protestors blocked off buses and smashed their windows with hammers and rocks because of a bus driver's refusal to make a woman sit in the back of the bus when some fundamentalist sect members tried to make her move, due to a rule in their religion. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Steve Oh, and Jimmy Dore discuss.
*Read more from AP via Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/m...
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