The “ultra-Orthodox Jew” that attacked six people at Jerusalem Pride has been admitted to a psychiatric ward to gauge whether or not he’s fit to stand trial.
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Using a kitchen knife, Yishai Shlissel stabbed six marchers on July 30, ultimately killing 16-year-old Shira Banki, who was at the event to show support for her gay friends.
As has been widely reported, Shlissel was released from prison just three weeks prior to the vicious attack, after having spent a decade behind bars for another knife attack at the 2005 Pride.
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According to Israel National News, the fact that he was even at the event for a second occasion to terrorize paraders can be chalked up to major mistakes made by the Israel Police and Israel Police Services. Shlissel was allegedly quite explicit about his intentions, and had even written them down two weeks prior. Authorities labeled him a “danger” but were decidedly negligent, to say the least: they never asked him to report to police before or during this year’s march.
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Meanwhile, extremist groups been hanging posters through Jerusalem praising Shlissel’s attack. One of them reads, “May all of the people of God be zealous as you.” Another quotes the Old Testament: “Whoever spills the blood of the wicked is as if he brought a sacrifice.”
h/t: Gay Star News
Daniel Ryan Varnado
Hang him!!
Glücklich
If it’s anything like the American mental health model he’ll be out of the booby hatch tomorrow with a handful of pills.
Phranc Azzhee
Hammurabi rule his arse!
K Patrick McCarthy
Yeah he is sick with the disease of religion
aliengod
@Glücklich: You’re exactly right. Pretty scary!
Jane Cain
He should go to prison
Curty
He killed someone! He has to pay, execute him!
Brian JC Kneeland
he should go straight to prison!
Sidney Davies
Religion is poison.
SeeingAll
He looks like Hasidim (or Haredi), and they’re all a little nutty (especially from inbreeding). They actually believe kids shouldn’t be taught math or science, only Torah (which is so unlike your mainstream Jew).
Ron Loftus
yes cut of his balls. and throw him to the booty snatchers.that the way to handle these beasts
jwtraveler
@Daniel Ryan Varnado: @Curty: Yes, the typical American response. The answer to killing is more killing. We see how effective that has been throughout history.
jwtraveler
Individual delusion is called mental illness. Mass delusion is called religion.
Cam
How about Religious fanaticism be classified as a mental condition?
GayEGO
I guess it doesn’t matter where you live, these nuts are everywhere, just like religion.
meghanada
If fanaticism is disease, they need to lock up 30% of Israel’s population and 65% of its members of parliament.
Creig Stearne
To little to late. Religious nutter should be charged with murder. Hiding behind his outdated religious beliefs to murder is just disgusting
Avery Alvarez
He should be executed, along with everyone who was responsible for letting him out right before Pride, and not monitoring someone who claimed they would do it again.
Many Israelis are responsible for this, not just the psycho who carried it out.
Kieran
I wonder if Shlissel’s family home has been bulldozed yet like they’d do if he were a Palestinian terrorist? Or do they have a different standard of justice for Jewish terrorists?
brooklynbobby
I’m sorry I just don’t agree with these calls for his death by execution or cutting off his balls or any of these extreme reactions to what this man did. I do think and agree with Avery Alvarez that the people that were responsible for letting him out right before the Pride celebration should be looked at and evaluated by their superiors for showing a decided lack of good judgement. Israel in general is very liberal and accepting about gay people. So that is what surprises me so much about this. There had to be some hateful person who is involved in this that person(s) should be identified and face the same charges that this fanatic will.
Kangol
Look, if the nutcase announced he was going to harm someone and then did, murdering at least one young woman, he’s not the only one who deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Hussain-TheCanadian
This reminds me of the Egyptians when they catch a Salafist (Sunni Islam’s Ultra Orthodox) asshole shooting up/bombing a church, or attacking a Shia Mosque, they always declare him “insane” and on to the psych ward he goes.
I guess the Israelis are beginning to copy from the Egyptian playbook.
Lindy-Lou Nicholson
I can’t believe how many of those commenting on this mans intolerance are displaying intolerance of your own.
Firstly, there are plenty of religious people who do not share his feeling and certainly do not condone his actions.
Secondly, this man is facing psychiatric evaluation, and it may be that mental illness was the cause of this tragic event, yet you are willing to condemn him already.
Dennis Mitchell
Ya thinkâ?ï¸
Daniel-Reader
Since those sick flyers are being posted, then it only seems fair that aerosolized un-kosher pork be sprayed across the entire region for all the inhabitants to ingest.
Finrod
@Lindy-Lou Nicholson: Yes, I’m quite willing to condemn him. He’s now done it twice. He’s given the same reason both times. He’s a danger to society and should be locked up until he’s dead.
If he murdered someone, of course he’s mentally ill. That doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t take the consequences of his actions. And the fact that he now enjoys widespread support in the ultra-orthodox community means that YOU need to make a decision. Either they’re all mentally ill and should be locked up for life. Or he can go to trial like anyone else who commits a heinous crime.
jwtraveler
@Avery Alvarez: Yeah. Let’s just execute everybody. That’ll stop the killing.@meghanada: And 97% of U.S. Republican politicians.
@Kieran: We know the answer to that.
JB
This is exactly why extreme religion–ultra-orthodox Judaism, evangelical Christianity, radical Islam, whatever–should be banned by international law. These people are crazy and would do anything (even murder!) to propagate their hateful messages, all while hiding behind the veil of religion. Freedom of religion is simply a farce.
Lucienne Wiersema
I hope they have a nurse Ratchet there!