June 26, 2008, - 2:59 pm
Religion of “Peace” and “Tolerance”: Muslims Tear Down Synagogue to Make Room for Palace
By Debbie Schlussel
You know it’s really intolerant when even Al-Arabiya is posting the Reuters story about it:
Tajikistan has knocked down its only synagogue to make way for a new presidential palace, casting the Jewish community into despair, community members said on Wednesday.
The 19th century building is due to be replaced by a park adjoining the new palace for President Imomali Rakhmon, who has ruled the impoverished, mainly Muslim nation since 1992.
Community leaders said the weekend demolition of their synagogue — a wooden, one-story house adorned with stars of David — put their 350-strong community under threat.
“It’s painful to lose something very dear, something that cannot be valued in money terms,” Rabbi Mikhail Abdurakhmanov said after the building was bulldozed.
“At the moment the existence of Tajikistan’s only Jewish community is under threat. It’s also a threat to elderly people who came here for help,” he told Reuters.
The Jewish community in Tajikistan — descendants of Persian-speaking Bukhara Jews who have lived in Central Asia for centuries — has dwindled since the country’s independence from Soviet rule with many leaving for Israel. . . .
The building technically belonged to the state because Soviet officials nationalized it in 1951 while allowing Jews to continue to worship there.
Before its demolition, the synagogue ran a daily canteen for the poor and allocated humanitarian aid to its mainly elderly community members with an average monthly income of about $20.
Yup, yet another textbook case of Islam’s tolerance. On the Al-Arabiya site, there are some “interesting” comments by the tolerant Mohammedanists. Here are some highlights:
There are no more Jews in Tajikistan, they all being helped to immigrate to the US most of whom work as hairdressers. . . .Hallelujahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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is time the other arabs do the same
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excellent by the way build there a mosque intead of presidential palace
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what are Jews doing in Tajikistan?
I am so sick of their tolerance. They all should go do what the AP said a Suicide-Bomber did today:
“A suicide bomber blew himself in a municipal office…”
F Skuzlam. Go blow yourselves.
Nuggler on June 26, 2008 at 3:28 pm