Montreal becoming another hacidic cesspool
Heinrich
CUNTICA
drahcir
> http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/04/14/outremont's-unholy-mess/
your links never work, asshole
hein...@ruhrgasnet.de
buy a better computer lul
Pierre Lacerte rarely leaves his house without a sense of righteous
indignation, and never without his point-and-shoot camera holstered on
his belt. When he walks through his neighbourhood of Outremont in
Montreal, he may take a picture, or seven, of garbage-strewn yards,
illegal construction, parking infractions, oversized buses, unlicensed
gatherings and any other infraction allegedly committed by the area’s
Hasidic Jewish community.
The pictures are fodder for his blog, a mean-spirited take on his
Hasidic neighbours and the politicians he says “are on all fours in
front of the Hasidim.” Liberal politician Martin Cauchon becomes
“Martin Kosher”; Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay is blasted for
courting the Hasidic vote during the last election, or “electorah.”
Lacerte also attends municipal council meetings with near-religious
fervour out of a sense of “exasperation” with the Hasidim, who he
believes are making Outremont unbearable for the goyim. “I’m
determined, not obsessed,” he said recently from a croissanterie near
his home. “They’re a small minority, and already it’s a mess. What’s
it going to be like in 15 years when they have doubled in size?” (A:
Lakewood NJ)
Lacerte’s diatribes are indicative of the mood in Outremont. The
arrondissement of choice for Quebec’s cultural and political elite is
synonymous with sidewalk cafés and quiet power. Yet it has in recent
years been the scene of a debate over how much leeway should be given
to its religious minorities. Many residents think they know the
answer: not much. Not any, actually. “Some people just want to make
life miserable for the Jews,” says Alex Werzberger, the Hasidic leader
frequently parodied on Lacerte’s site.
It has been ugly as of late. In March, anonymous leaflets appeared on
lampposts and parking meters decrying an “illegal synagogue” in
neighbouring Mile End, and urging Outremont residents to call elected
officials to protest. (The building is used as a temporary meeting
place for young Hasidic men, Werzberger says.) Then, a couple of weeks
ago, vandals broke into an Outremont synagogue and drew swastikas on
its bimah, or pulpit.
Council meetings, meanwhile, have become pitched battles between pro-
and anti-Hasid camps. Recently, police removed Giselle Lafortune, a
74-year-old retired beautician and vocal critic of the Hasidim, from a
meeting for repeated disruptions. Lafortune says police intervened
after she called Hasidic spokesperson Meyer Feig a racist, but only
after Feig insulted the upbringing of non-Hasidic children. (Feig
couldn’t be reached for comment.) “I don’t want it to be like this,
but it’s becoming a place where one community is pitted against
another,” says Outremont Mayor Marie Cinq-Mars.
Tensions go back a few years. In the late 1990s Hasidim challenged a
bylaw preventing them from erecting an eruv, a series of strings hung
around a neighbourhood allowing the observant to perform otherwise
verboten functions on the sabbath. The eruv, councillor Céline Forget
said at the time, would prevent her from flying a kite outside her
home. (The bylaw was struck down.) “You see where they’re coming
from,” Werzberger says of his critics. Bylaw issues are a smokescreen,
he says, for hatred of what amounts to a very visible minority.
“They’re scared of what happens as we get bigger, and what will happen
if we elect someone to municipal council.”
Not so, says Forget. The battle over bylaws is important, she says, if
Outremont is to be Outremont and not what Lacerte calls a “religious
ghetto.” In 1999, she successfully lobbied the courts to close down an
illegal synagogue; opening synagogues in residential areas, then
annexing surrounding buildings, is the ultimate goal of the Hasidim,
she says. During the court proceedings, she was assaulted and her home
vandalized.
It would have been difficult to fathom such rancour 50 years ago.
Roughly 30 Hasidic families arrived from Europe after the Second World
War. Attracted by its quiet streets and plentiful housing, they
settled in and around Outremont, building synagogues and, much like
their French Catholic brethren, reproducing copiously. Outremont
practised reasonable accommodations well before it became a
catchphrase: according to Cinq-Mars, there has been an unwritten rule
for 40 years that says snow removal is “avoided” on certain streets on
the Jewish Sabbath.
But as Quebec society became more secular and less fecund, the Hasidic
community continued to grow, and to practise a brand of Judaism
emphasizing piety, prayer and a certain detachment from
non-Hasidim—echoes of the fight over the niqab, the Islamic veil that
is Quebec’s perceived threat du jour. The friction was only a matter
of time and demographics: today, Hasidim represent 20 to 25 per cent
of Outremont’s population of 97,000. For some, their garb—black coats,
long dresses and payos braids—is as obvious as their downturned eyes
as they walk the streets. “They want to control the environment,”
Forget says. “That’s why they live so close together. They think when
they control a street they can apply their own rules.”
Not every Outremonter agrees. Kaitlin Jones lives down the street from
Lacerte. Sure, her neighbours occasionally hiss at her bare flesh and
copious tattoos. “You get over it. I mean, Outremont’s the safest
neighbourhood I’ve ever lived in,” she says. The double parking? The
loud synagogues? “It’s part of living in Montreal. You’re going to
inconvenience someone at some point.”
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The Peeler
LOL He's certainly one of the dumbest and most ridiculous posters ever seen
on Usenet!
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The Peeler
the Dutch resident troll of sci and scj, wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:33:01 -0700 (PDT), drahcir
> <justrich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Apr 16, 11:34 am, "Heinrich" <Heinr...@Ruhrgasnet.de> wrote:
>>> http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/04/14/outremont's-unholy-mess/
>>
>>your links never work, asshole
> buy a better computer lul
Try to get a brain somehow ...and quickly, Dutch retard! You'd REALLY need
one! <BG>
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