THESE are the people deciding the foreign,
political and economic policies of the world’s most powerful nations???
By
The Associated Press
August
8, 2012
JERUSALEM
- It's the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun
contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don't
have to see women they consider to be immodestly dressed.
In an effort to maintain their strictly devout
lifestyle, the ultra-Orthodox have separated the sexes on buses, sidewalks and
other public spaces in their neighbourhoods.
Their interpretation of Jewish law forbids contact between men and women who
are not married.
Walls in their neighbourhoods feature signs
exhorting women to wear closed-necked, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts.
Extremists have accosted women they consider to have flouted the code.
Now they're trying to keep them out of clear sight
altogether.
The ultra-Orthodox community's unofficial
"modesty patrols" are selling glasses with special blur-inducing
stickers on their lenses. The glasses provide clear vision for up to a few
meters so as not to impede movement, but anything beyond that gets blurry —
including women. It's not known how many have been sold.
For men forced to venture outside their insular
communities, hoods and shields that block peripheral vision are also being
offered.
The glasses are going for the "modest"
price of $6.
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