Why do these Haredi librarians think burning even books written by criminals solves anything?
This is just head-shakingly wrong-headed how a Bnei Brak library's responding to the scandal of the recently deceased rapist Chaim Walder:
Whatever value the books may have once had was definitely destroyed following the revelations about Walder's real image. And it's abominable his tomb features whitewashed wording offensive to his victims. But how these ultra-Orthodox fail to recognize that literally burning the books is little different from how Germany's National Socialists operated is bewildering, and does not solve anything.
The books of haredi children's author Chaim Walder were burned in front of his grave in the Sgula cemetery in Petah Tikva Tuesday.While Walder was indeed evil, and practically made it clear after he left a most insulting suicide note before killing himself last month, why do this library's managers think burning books is the way to go? Definitely, the books should be removed from their shelves, but the next stop for them should be a transfer to a criminology institute, as I'd argued before. How else is one supposed to do research on how evil operates?
The Bnei Brakit Library sent all of Walder's books in its possession to be burned at his gravesite the day his tombstone was unveiled.
The owner of the private library that sent the books to the fire told Israel National News: "We have already stopped lending the books immediately after the publication of the affair, according to a reading by the judges of the Badatz Bnei Brak, founded by the late Rabbi Karelitz."
"With the publication of the verdict that found him guilty we thought to burn the many books along with the chametz, but when we read the wording of the tombstone that justifies the wicked and condemns the righteous we decided to burn the books today in protest and sympathy with the many victims," she said.
Whatever value the books may have once had was definitely destroyed following the revelations about Walder's real image. And it's abominable his tomb features whitewashed wording offensive to his victims. But how these ultra-Orthodox fail to recognize that literally burning the books is little different from how Germany's National Socialists operated is bewildering, and does not solve anything.
Labels: haredi corruption, Israel, misogyny, Moonbattery, sexual violence
