Israel gives dog death sentence

[Dr Mindbender]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/jewish-court-sentences-dog-death-stoning-170029405.html



A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago, Ynet website reported Friday.
According to Ynet, the large dog made its way into the Monetary Affairs Court in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, frightening judges and plaintiffs.
Despite attempts to drive the dog out of the court, the hound refused to leave the premises.
One of the sitting judges then recalled a curse the court had passed down upon a secular lawyer who had insulted the judges two decades previously.
Their preferred divine retribution was for the lawyer's spirit to move into the body of a dog, an animal considered impure by traditional Judaism.
Clearly still offended, one of the judges sentenced the animal to death by stoning by local children.
The canine target, however, managed to escape.
"Let the Animals Live", an animal-welfare organisation filed a complaint with the police against the head of the court, Rabbi Avraham Dov Levin, who denied that the judges had called for the dog's stoning, Ynet reported.
One of the court's managers, however, confirmed the report of the lapidation sentence to Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot.
"It was ordered... as an appropriate way to 'get back at' the spirit which entered the poor dog," the paper reported the manager as saying, according to Ynet.
Certain schools of thought within Judaism believe in the transmigration of souls, or reincarnation.

[Volcanicity]

You know when you read thing's and words fail you? For me this is one of those instances.Really the mind boggles.

[Tenka]

If the vile stinkin' spirit-possessed dog has fled the scene, I see no reason to stone it now. Killing it might give it a chance at a better body, after all.

...:lol:

[Rainsborough]

Certain schools of thought within Judaism believe in the transmigration of souls, or reincarnation.

:confused: Really, is that the same scoll of thought that believes in Bhuddah?

[Who?]

At least they can eat it afterwards.

[Die Rote Fahne]

I wonder if Bill Maher will cover this...will his zionism outweigh is religious issues.

[Ocean Seal]

I wonder if Bill Maher will cover this...will his zionism outweigh is religious issues.
Well this will certainly prevent his obvious imperialist recitations especially considering that this is happening in one of the countries that the west considers "civilized".

[Octavian]

"What's the harm?" they said.

[PhoenixAsh]

At least they can eat it afterwards.

hehehe....reminds me:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/baghdad-takes-aim-t138302/index.html

Not that I was there. But it just reminds me. :D

[PhoenixAsh]

This is what you get when you let religious people run your country and court system.

[Ocean Seal]

"What's the harm?" they said.
What's the harm in letting the dog live? That the dog will insult the court in a legal briefing?

[Red Commissar]

:confused: Really, is that the same scoll of thought that believes in Bhuddah?

Within Kabbalah interpretations there is the concept of Gilgul, which would be similar to concepts of reincarnation as people know it. It's not explicitly in the main Jewish texts though (much less held by most mainstream denominations), but I'm not an expert on Judaism so maybe someone else can clear that up.

[ComradeMan]

But if the dog has not had a bar mitzvah can it be legally held responsible for its own actions...?

What a load of nonsense....

[TheCuriousCommunist]

This obviously proves that both Religion and the State of Israel are backwards, primitive, stagnant bourgeois institutions that must be enlightened by the cleaning fire of International Socialism.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Seriously though, why is that a problem? The reasoning seems sound, the punishment just.

[Black Sheep]

Well this stamps valid Finkelstein's claim that Israel's a lunatic state.

[Leftie]

:blink:

[Comrade Lou]

This is so wrong in so many ways. So the spirit of a man ended up in a dog, and the dog was sentenced to death by stoning, and the death sentence was supposed to be carried out by children. It all makes so much sense... or not.
It's all too absurd; when is a human being sentenced to death for offending the court? And even if his spirit would be in that dog, in what way is it logical to give the dog a death sentence? And when is it in any way acceptable to let children carry out a death sentence?
And this is a well respected country.

[hatzel]

I feel it might be worth mentioning that the actual newspaper that first reported this story have published a retraction and apology and all that and claimed the story was bullhonk...even without that, though, the 'Monetary Affairs Court' of Mea Shearim has absolutely nothing to do with anything. It would pretty much be the equivalent of if we were to all move into some flat, and then declare ComradeMan the official mediator in discussions about who can eat what from the fridge, whether I take too long in the shower in the morning, stuff like that. That's basically the level of 'officialdom' we're talking about here :) (Okay, maybe a slightly larger scale, but the idea that, say, the Israeli national court system or state or anything did anything here...yeah, that's not accurate...and that's even if we are to believe the incident took place at all...)

[ComradeMan]

It would pretty much be the equivalent of if we were to all move into some flat, and then declare ComradeMan the official mediator in discussions about who can eat what from the fridge, whether I take too long in the shower in the morning, stuff like that. That's ...

I can live with that.

I thought it was nonsense from the outset.;)