A Zionist lawmaker tore up a copy of the New Testament to protest against the dissemination of the “despicable book”, which was sent to members of parliament by a Christian organisation.
The MP Michael Ben Ari of the ultra-nationalist National Union opposition party was one of the Knesset members who received by mail on Monday [July 16] a copy of the “Book of Testaments”.
It contains the Jewish Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament, and the New Testament, the Gospels and epistles of the Christian faith written after the time of Jesus.
A letter sent with the book from the “Bible Society in Israel” director Victor Kalisher said the new edition “sheds light on the Holy Scriptures and helps understand them. In addition, the references show the close correlation” between the two.
A picture published on the Zionist news website NRG-Maariv taken by Ben Ari’s aide shows the lawmaker tearing up the book.
“This despicable book galvanized the murder of millions of Jews during the Inquisition and during auto da fe instances”, he was quoted as saying in reference to the New Testament.
“This is an ugly missionary provocation by the church; this book and its senders should be in history’s trash can”, Ben Ari said on NRG-Maariv.
A parliamentary spokesman said that since it was a book and not dangerous materials that was sent, there was no reason to get involved in the lawmakers’ mail.
Kalisher was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday. However, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was horrified by reports that a member of the Zionist parliament tore up a copy of the New Testament and posed for photographs with the destroyed bible.
ADL called on Knesset Member Michael Ben Ari to publicly apologize for tearing up a copy of the New Testament he had received after a publisher sent copies to all members of the Zionist Knesset.
Posted: at 18-07-2012 04:58 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
dc_TenTen at 18-07-2012 06:12 PM (11 years ago) (m)
By their seed we shall knw them...These are ur type radio without battery..the fulani herdsman!.... I knw no christian would b better abt what he did! U knw Y fulani herdsman is because we all knws that he will surely reap the fruit of his labor. So nobody is fighting for God for this man!... So this ue news is not worth the sweat! Go and drink Kunu and look for anoda story online to post cos all u do here is copy and paste here!
Posted: at 18-07-2012 06:12 PM (11 years ago) | Newbie
Amor1444 at 18-07-2012 08:23 PM (11 years ago) (m)
Ultra Othodox jews re hard core extremist & do not accept anything that has to do with Jesus. But u know, christians re meak in nature & will not resolve to violence in response to such act, unlike islamic faithfuls.
Posted: at 18-07-2012 08:23 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
un9ja-9ja at 19-07-2012 01:17 AM (11 years ago) (m)
my NAIJA people, abeg make una dey read story wella before commenting please!!!...it wasn't a copy of the bible that was torn, it's a book that tries to explain more on the new testament by adding more explanations to some new testament stories...i have seen a similar book called the "book of mammon" or whatever, the people that uses it try to tell us it explain more on the bible but my question is WHICH OTHER EXPLANATION DO PEOPLE NEED ON THE BIBLE?...i personally think the bible is self-explanatory enough...back to the story above, the man has got right to either accept or reject the book but the only error i think he committed was putting his action in picture...if he like make he use the book clean yansh for toilet as long as it rest under his own privacy and not injure other people's belief..I REST MY CASE!
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