Extremists mistakenly chase wrong person out of Mea Shearim

Often we find people blaming the victim when an episode crops up involving the extremists from Mea Shearim or RBS B. If the violent extremist thugs attack someone walking through the neighborhood, people say she should have been more sensitive to the culture of the place and worn longer sleeves, or not walk through at all, or the soldier should have known not to go there, or the like.

Kikar is reporting that today in Mea Shearim a young man was attacked, thankfully only by threatening mobs and screams but it did not get to actual physical violence, when he went to daven mincha in one of the local shtiebels. He was attacked because he was wearing olive green pants and someone thought he might be a soldier of the IDF, so he gathered the mob to throw him out.

The poor fellow left the shul, and the neighborhood, quickly, to avoid problems, so the thugs got what they wanted.

Should we blame him for wearing green pants? What was he thinking - dressing like a soldier! he was asking them to attack him! he provoked them by his insensitive attire.

There is no way to know what will tick off an extremist thug. One day it might be this, another day it might be that. There is no way to predict such a thing.

Thugs are thugs and should be dealt with appropriately. We needn't blame the victims, when it is the thugs causing the problems.

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