Re: Israeli rabbinate idiocy

On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:28:49 +0000, J J Levin wrote:
If the rabbinate claims the prerogative of following all of its converts
to make sure they follow the straight and narrow path, they are no
better than Islam or the Taliban or any other fundamentalist meshigass.

Ahh. I see we have developed a new correlary to Godwin's law: "As the
length of a Usenet thread increases, the probability of a comparison
involoving the Taliban[1] approaches 1."

--Ken
[1] In Godwin's own law, it was Hitler and the Nazis that he was
concerned about.

--
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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