In its weekly editorial the Yated Ne'emancourageously pointed out the sad fact how other frum media outlets reported on the events in beit Shemesh. We are all being tarred with the same filthy brush, even though the spin misters know its not true, that we've been led to believe by the media and apologists within our own camp. we cant just condemn and disown the actions of the unruly, unscrupulous few, without casting doubt on the entire frum community. The editor quotes;
"We cannot give impostors and usurpers the power to induce us into believing fictitious bad things about ourselves. We cannot permit them to divide us or turn our backs on our birthright. By letting them set the agenda, we are party to the discrediting campaign. It was disturbing to see voices in our very own Torah media being taken in by the hype, rushing to believe the worst of our own, accepting at face value the conclusions of those driven by political and anti-Torah agendas."As mentioned here in a previous post many blogger's, and even the frum print media rushed to condemn the actions of a few, yet failed to point out that its only a few, and are more apologetic than showing the real beauty of charedim. We need more oversight even for the frum charedi publications.
I disagree you on this, very strongly. (I also don't think it is just a few dozen people, the demonstration in Meah Shearim was too well organized and large to be put together and attended by 20 or some odd people.) By speaking up and condemning these things, we can only make the mainstream charedi world look better and PROVE that the people doing such things are on the truly on the fringe. It's being reported by the secular media, so why shouldn't ours have a decent response?
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