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Religious Extremism


September 9th, 2008 · Israel and the Middle East, Judaism, Law and Legal Affairs, Religion, World Affairs

RISHON LEZION, Israel — You know that the Jew­ish state is fac­ing an alarm­ing upsurge in reli­gious extrem­ism when a news­pa­per from an Arab coun­try reports on the so-called “mod­esty patrols” that are now being con­ducted by ultra-Orthodox Jews. This is some­thing that occurs in places like Iran.