Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem staged a protest outside the offices of US electronics giant Intel; they were protesting about working on Saturdays which they call the Sabath apparently doing this upsets God. Fundamentalists in Israel have become increasingly vocal in recent months and in keeping with the all inclusive perspective of religious fundamentalists the world over their aim is to stop all work on their holy day whether you believe in their particular superstitions or not.
I suspect that the problem for most large scale manufacturers like this it costs more to shut down a plant and start it up again that it does simply to keep going, and people always like the opportunity to earn a little extra cash; perhaps if Intel were to engrave a little star of David on each silicone wafer made on Saturday then perhaps that would keep all the appropriate invisible entities happy?
4 comments:
Oh my goodness, you really take on the sacred cows in this blog (to mix religions), don't you? You are very brave. If I wrote this on my blog with all the Americans who read it, I would be crucified (to mix religions again).
Hats off to you.
E, Sacred cows, days, pigs, elephants and taco's, they all have the same underlying properties, you would think that after 4000 years of thinking about it these people could come up with something a little more convincing.
Wish they would stop the settlements in East Jersualem while we are on the subject.
But E, God promised them this land (obviously!), these religious knuckle-heads claim to be concerned about the next life but seem to have an unhealthy preoccupation with material possessions in this one.
As I have said many, many times before here, when you have faith any injustice becomes justifiable.
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