Tornado Alley (PROG)

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I love this part too

Recently, after deepening unrest between religious and non-religious in Bet Shemesh, 15 miles west of Jerusalem, the secularists demanded that the town be divided into two, one half Orthodox and the other secular. The interior minister, himself a leader of an Orthodox party, rejected this outright. As he candidly explained, since the Orthodox do not work and cannot pay municipal taxes, they cannot sustain a town of their own. They need the secular to work and pay.

I remember reading about the conflict in Bet Shemesh recently... Orthodox men harassing school girls about their immodest dress. It sounded a lot like the Taliban and the Saudi religious police. But God forbid ordinary citizens should want to stop supporting the religious parasites, eh?

It was a pretty good piece. I heard it on a program from WHUS in Storrs at my alma mater, the University of Connecticut. (listen live at http://www.whus.org). They also feature Al Jazeera in the morning (our time) and Democracy Now at noon. I don't know what time that is for you... probably yesterday or something :)

Anyway. It came from antiwar.com which is also a pretty good source. Glad you enjoyed it.