Israel: Rabbi attempts to ban women drivers

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Holon, Israel – A prominent Israeli rabbi has issued a religious decree forbidding Jewish women from driving or learning to drive unless absolutely necessary.

The order by Rabbi Avraham Yosef prohibits women from driving, especially in Israeli cities predominantly inhabited by ultraorthodox Jews, Ahram Online news website reported.

And here we can’t even make jokes about them any more. Well, that’s civilization for you.

Pakistan: Anti-blasphemy politician murdered by bodyguard

SMH.

The governor of Pakistan’s powerful Punjab province was shot dead on Tuesday by one of his guards in the Pakistani capital, police said….

Punjab Govenor Salman Taseer was a high-profile member of Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party and a close associate of President Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto’s widower.

Again we see the treachery that only religion can invoke.