Israeli town council cancels Jehovah’s Witnesses event (page 2)

menrov

Freedom of religion also means to except freedom to cancel religious meetings. My freedom should not limit the freedom of someone else. Nor should it harm others.

If an organisation believes the freedom on another group is potentially harmful to others, it has the right to step in and avoid a clash (verbally or physically).

Jews are very sensitive to religious issues, same as muslims. I would not mind when a city council in my country would prohibit an Islamic event for example if there is a risk of conflicts and violence in that city.

OrphanCrow

2013 Report on International Religious Freedom - Israel, 28 July 2014 published by United States Department of State:

The law recognizes the following religious communities: Eastern Orthodox, Latin (Roman Catholic), Gregorian-Armenian, Armenian-Catholic, Syrian Catholic, Chaldean (Chaldean Uniate Catholic), Greek Catholic Melkite, Maronite, Syrian Orthodox, Druze, Evangelical Episcopal, and Bahai. Other religious communities, including Muslims and major Protestant Christian denominations, have a presence in the country, but are not recognized by the government as "religious communities." Five religious communities have applied for official recognition but their applications have been pending for years: Ethiopian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical Lutheran Church, Evangelical Alliance of Israel, andJehovah's Witnesses.

Interestingly, because the JWs do not have official recognition, they do not have the authority to conduct marriages:

Members of unrecognized religious groups may practice their beliefs. There is no civil right to marry or divorce in the country for members of unrecognized religious communities, but an authority within one of the recognized religious communities can handle their personal status issues, including marriage, if the authority agrees.

And about proselytizing:

Proselytizing is legal for all religious groups. The law prohibits offering a material benefit as an inducement to conversion. It is also illegal to convert a person under 18 unless one parent is an adherent of the religious group seeking to convert the minor. Despite the legality of proselytism, the government generally discourages proselytizing and encourages the popular perception that it is illegal. The MOI occasionally cites proselytizing as a reason to deny student, work, and religious visa extensions, as well as to deny permanent residency petitions.

The societal view of JWs in Israel:

Societal attitudes toward missionary activities and conversion were generally negative. Most Jews opposed missionary activity directed at Jews, considering it tantamount to religious harassment, and some were hostile to Jewish converts to Christianity. Messianic Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses were reportedly harassed regularly by Yad L'Achim and Lev L'Achim, Jewish religious organizations opposed to missionary activity and intermarriage. There were no violent attacks against Messianic Jews orJehovah's Witnesses.

Vidiot

"...buses all over the country would bring innocent Jews to be baptized on the Sabbath at the Ra’anana municipal sports center..."

Sorry, but that bit made me laugh.

steve2

And may be those "innocent Jews" who resist the waters of baptism will be drowned. Bwahahahahaha.....

Oh this is uninformed nonsense.

WTWizard

And to think the jokehovians are supposed to go there for a two-week mission? Knowing this reaction was probable, they still exposed themselves to this type of treatment. If anything, the missionary trip(s) should have been cancelled.

OrphanCrow

And to think the jokehovians are supposed to go there for a two-week mission? Knowing this reaction was probable, they still exposed themselves to this type of treatment. If anything, the missionary trip(s) should have been cancelled.

The 'mission' that the JWs are on by being sent to Israel by the WTS is not about 'spreading the good news'. The WTS is well aware of their legal standing in that country and are deliberately sending 'missionaries' into Israel in order to challenge the laws of that country. It is a political and legal maneuver.

OUTLAW

The Ra’anana municipality has canceled an event organized by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Israel, concerned that the religious group’s meeting would “hurt the feelings of the public.”

If the WatchTower had their own Country..Run by Jehovah`s Witnesses..

.........WOULD THE WATCHTOWER ALLOW RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?!!..

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