Go figure!
We have Mayan Guatemalans flooding into the US into such cities as Lynn, Massachusetts saying they are persecuted back home (and Obama letting in Guatemalan women who claim domestic abuse) and we are expected to welcome them.
Then we have Mayan Guatemalans forcing Jews to leave their town fearing that the Jews would destroy their “religion and customs” (and drive tourists away) and everyone seems fine with that!
Why aren’t we permitted to fear Guatemalans changing our customs?
From The Telegraph (hat tip: ‘pungentpeppers’):
Members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect have been expelled from a lakeside Guatemalan village after clashing with the local Mayan population.
Around 230 members of Lev Tahor, an intensely religious Jewish group that rejects the state of Israel, moved to Guatemala earlier this year after fleeing amid allegations of child abuse in Canada.
[….]
“We felt intimidated by them in the streets. We thought they wanted to change our religion and customs,” said Miguel Vasquez Cholotio, a member of the elders’ council.
As I read this story I wondered if the Guatemalans, or the US and Canada before them, would have had the nerve to throw out an Islamic sect with similar views and attire.
And, how come these Jews aren’t being championed as “stateless” by the international ‘humanitarian industrial complex?’ And, where is the UN with its condemnation of Guatemala?