Ku Klux Karta..or Ku Klutz Karta?

BS”D

That is why I won’t refer to them by any name that includes both Neturei and Karta. I’ve also called them Nutter Kartel and Neturei Creedmoor, Creedmoor being a mental institution in Queens, NY so if you don’t want Karta, take your pick of those 2. I know full well they have no right to the name Neturei Karta and if Reb Amram Bloy ZYA were alive now, I would probably consider myself a follower of his.

The first hijack was that of Moshe Hirsch which was a family dispute with his father in law R’ Katzenellenbogen, whose followers are the closest thing to those of Reb Amram but I think they too are loosely organized these days and attract a few bad elements.

The best information I have is that the Teheran Five and a Half and those who demonstrate alongside one or more of them are a collection of oisvorfen from communities as diverse as Vizhnitz, Satmar, Chaim Berlin, Skvere, and yes, YU, along with a couple of leftover Malochim who were not absorbed elsewhere. I won’t malign the various communities by noting which freak came from where but I think I know the score :).

I think Cohen in Manchester is in cherem as per the Manchester Beis Din unless the cherem was removed when he apologized. Freeky Freedy is in cherem in Vienna (not sure by which beis din); he is not allowed to shop in community stores.

They’re not shoitim al pi halacha though so they are subject to cherem if a beis din decides to act accordingly.

BS”D

I don’t know but Cohen has been disallowed use of the cemetery in Manchester and Freeky is not allowed to have any interaction with the Vienna community at all. I think Freeky is not in official cherem – it may be an action of the Vienna kehilla as opposed to the beis din.

BS”D

Freeky Freedy was outright mechalel shabbos on Shabbos Bereishis 5767 when he used a microphone (held by a ben yishmoel) to address a crowd of Arab tzoirerim in Berlin. If my Yiddish were better I would write a Purim song about this based on the fish song by Michoel Schnitzler that begins erev shabbos bryshis, fynem fish in flyshigs etc LOL.

Freeky, however, does not qualify (yet) as a shoiteh al pi halacha. If a couple of shtarkers would hit him over the head with a twenty five kilo dumbbell (which is what Freedy is at the end of the day), one of two things would happen. Either he would become a shoiteh al pi halacha, or more likely they would knock some sense into him and he would stop his shtus and apologize.

Bekitzur, the Ku Klutz Kartel (there, no more Karta either) are great to have around for a laugh or two at their expense.

In fact, last nitel nacht when I was watching a video of the Freedy speech at the rally I could not help but be reminded lehavdil a million times of a Lipa Schmeltzer performance.

The difference is that lehavdil when Lipa clowns around on stage, we laugh ALONG WITH him and all are besimcha. When Freeky Freedy reads from a prepared speech in German, making mistake after mistake and needing help from the Arab who is holding the mic for him on Shabbos, and his facial expression barely betrays the fact that he does not believe ONE WORD he is saying, we can only laugh AT the shmoiger (roshei teivois SHoiteh Menuval Ve Gas Ruach) as we see that his whole so-called ideology is but an inane show.

BS”D

Did he speak on Shabbos the way his counterpart in Vienna does?

Something tells me that Sheikh Ismail Daoud al-Beyda does not speak English properly or speak any Arabic whatsoever. His Viennese counterpart Sheikh Moussa Assad al-Faraj al-Majnoun can barely speak the language of his adopted country, the same one that just elected his buddies of Jorg Haider’s party to a respectable showing in parliament.

However, the brocho is just as pertinent to the one who is ready to surrender E”Y to terrorists, thereby truly endangering Jewish lives.