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Please. There about a half-dozen deranged individuals who support Iran and Palestinian terrorism. Attempting to characterize the all of the various Satmar/Badatz communities based such is about as disingenuous as claiming that that anybody who opposes the assassination of Jews for political purposes should be concerned about the growth of the Dati-Leumi community- just look what happened to Rabin.

Now, I happen to believe that there legitimate gripes about the political beliefs of the average Satmar chossid. But I don’t think that’s the most important thing we should be focusing on when we think about the growth of Satmar. We should be focusing on their attitudes towards Shabbos, kashrus, tzniyus, chessed, etc.

This may be controversial here in the CR, but I don’t think “What was your position on the State of Israel?” is going to be one of the first ten questions that Hashem will ask us. Or the first hundred. Or thousand. There is a time and place to argue about politics, but we really must make sure that we put our actual religion first.

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