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(82,333 posts) Mon Aug 18, 2014, 08:58 PM Aug 2014

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Arrests at protests against Israeli interfaith wedding [View all]

17 August 2014
Last updated at 21:05 ET

Four far-right Jewish protesters have been arrested at the wedding of a Jewish-born woman who converted to Islam and an Arab Muslim man in Israel.

Several hundred demonstrators rallied outside the reception hall in Rishon LeZion on Sunday, amid high security.

The groom, Mahmoud Mansour, had sought a court order to try to stop the protest from taking place but failed.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has condemned the demonstrations against the couple's union.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28831114

1:01 video at link.

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Arrests at protests against Israeli interfaith wedding [View all] rug Aug 2014 OP

Over a wedding they do this! hrmjustin Aug 2014 #1

Gotta keep those religions separate. rug Aug 2014 #2

Just plain bigotry. hrmjustin Aug 2014 #3

But if she converted, okasha Aug 2014 #4

That's why an interfaith perspective is important. rug Aug 2014 #5

True enough. okasha Aug 2014 #6

This is really tragic (the protests, not the arrests). cbayer Aug 2014 #7

I was born in England in April 1948, six weeks before Israel became a state Fortinbras Armstrong Aug 2014 #8

I'm not sure there are a lot of issues with Jewish/gentile marriages. cbayer Aug 2014 #9

You're right. It was just that they were uncertain about how their marriage would be received. Fortinbras Armstrong Aug 2014 #10

I've not been to Israel, but people I know who have been loved it. cbayer Aug 2014 #11

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