UK GOVERNMENT OFFERS SHARIA LOANS TO MUSLIM STUDENTS

And back to Britain, we find the UK government dishing out sharia finance loans to Muslim students:

Muslim students are to be offered Sharia-compliant interest free loans by the government in an attempt to get more Islamic pupils to go to university.

Since tuition fees were increased in September 2012, many Muslim students have been put off continuing their education as it was expected the loans, which are paid back above the rate of inflation, would be used to cover the rising costs - contrary to their beliefs.

Following a four-month consultation, a new Sharia-friendly model which involves Muslim students paying a donation into a pool system instead of paying interest has been produced by the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS).

The alternative scheme is expected to be introduced within the next three years, but BIS has denied it will pave the way for compliance with Sharia in a wider sense, saying: 'Sharia has no jurisdiction in England and Wales and the Government has no intention to change this position.'

Why bother to deny the obvious? It's already pretty clear sharia does have jurisdiction, because the UK government's enabled it. And getting more Muslims to attend universities will only ensure they become hotbeds for yet more radicalism. This is the public's tax pounds at work.

SHARIA ENFORCERS IN GERMANY

There have been sharia gangs in Britain, and now, there's some in Germany too:

Muslim radicals have begun enforcing Islamic Sharia law on the streets of Wuppertal, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, the state with the largest Muslim population in Germany.

In what government officials say is a blatant challenge to the rule of law and the democratic order in Germany, groups of young bearded Islamists — some wearing orange traffic safety vests emblazoned with the words "Sharia Police" — have declared parts of downtown Wuppertal to be a "Sharia Controlled Zone."

The self-appointed guardians of public morals have been distributing yellow leaflets that explain the Islamist code of conduct in the city's Sharia zones. They have urged both Muslim and non-Muslim passersby to listen to Salafist sermons and to refrain from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling, listening to music, pornography or prostitution.

A seven-minute propaganda video in German, entitled "Sharia Police: Coming Soon to Your City," shows a group of men led by a German convert to Islam, Sven Lau, roaming the streets of Wuppertal at night and pressing wayward youth to embrace radical Islam. In some instances, the men physically attempted to prevent young people from entering bars, casinos and discotheques; those who resisted were pursued and intimidated.

After local residents alerted German authorities, police stepped up their presence in downtown Wuppertal and also established a telephone hotline to enable citizens to report any possible criminal activity.

Local authorities, however, appear uncertain about how to proceed. [...]

More than a dozen Islamists between the ages of 19 and 30 are now being investigated on charges of illegal assembly. But the men have not been arrested and police say they have no legal authority to confiscate the orange vests, even though impersonating a police officer is a crime. Wuppertal's Public Prosecutor, Wolf-Tilman Baumert, says it remains unclear whether the men have done anything illegal. "The mere explaining of religious rules is not a crime," he said.

If they haven't been busted for their offensive hooliganism, then all this tells is they're showing weakness in the face of the intimidation. How do they expect to combat the growing problem then?

VIDEO: FARAGE ON SCOTLAND'S IMPENDING VOTE AND THE GREY MEN OF WESTMINSTER

MORE HERE

WASH POST/ABC NEWS POLL SPELLS DOOM FOR THE DEMS AND SALVATION FOR THE NATION!

WASH POST:

the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll ... : 

... the president’s approval has slipped among key parts of the Obama coalition — the women, youth and Latino voters most responsible for putting him into office.
Women surveyed said they disapprove of Obama by a 50 percent to 44 percent margin — nearing an all-time low in the poll. It’s almost the reverse of the 55 percent to 44 percent breakdown for Obama among female voters in 2012, according to exit polls. 

His approval rating among women has slipped four percentage points from a year ago and 16 points since his second inaugural in January 2013, when his approval was 60 percent among the group. 

Among younger voting-age Americans, Obama’s approval rating stood at 43 percent. That marked an 11-point drop since June among those 18 to 29 years old. Voters younger than 30 supported Obama by 60 percent to 37 percent in 2012.
Meanwhile, support for Obama among Hispanics stood at 57 percent, which is down markedly from the first half of 2013, when approval among Latinos soared to about 75 percent. 

Obama’s support remains solid among African Americans, with 87 percent approving of his job performance. That is a modest erosion from the 93 percent of black voters who supported his reelection.

WHAT ABOUT THE FUHREEEEEEKIN' JOOOOOOOOZE!?!?

JEWS SHOULD BE ABANDONING OBAMA TOO!

AND IF AFRICAN-AMERICANS REALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT OBAMA IS NOT ONE OF THEM, BUT A KENYAN-AMERICAN WHO GREW UP IN A MIDDLE-CLASS WAY AND NOT FROM THE GHETTO, THEN THEY'D LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF HIS POLICIES AND ABANDON OBAMA, TOO!

BOTTOM-LINE: 

THIS POLL SPELLS DOOM FOR THE DEMS AND SALVATION FOR THE NATION!

THANK GOODNESS FOR YAF'S SCHOOL PROGRAM

Thanks to Young Americans for Freedom, more than 250 schools around the USA have taken part in their special program for learning about the circumstances that led to 9-11. And:

If it weren't for the Foundation's student activists, most schools would ignore the anniversary of September 11. Even more worrisome are the professors who continue to blame America for the attacks. The Obama administration has even tried to change the meaning of 9/11 by turning the anniversary into a politically correct "national day of service." They would like us—and particularly young people—to forget who murdered nearly 3,000 innocent American men, women, and children.

No less worrisome is wondering how many of the same children will one day be learning in the same class as the crime-worshiping professors who blame the victims. I believe this is why YAF should make sure their program includes teaching students why they should be careful around ideologues who could espose dangerous beliefs, and teach why idol worship of flesh and blood humans can be ill advised.

LEV TAHOR WAGED HUMAN TRAFFICKING, FORCED MEMBERS TO TAKE DRUGS

Some new information on the Lev Tahor cult reveals they were as abusive as previously thought:

MONTREAL — Sûreté du Québec investigators got help from Interpol and authorities in Israel to establish a criminal case against the ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor.

These are among several new revelations from search warrants unsealed by a judge on Wednesday. The warrants were issued by a Quebec judge to SQ investigators to search the homes of Lev Tahor members in Chatham-Kent, Ont., last Jan. 28.

The warrants allege members of the community falsified government documents, and engaged in human trafficking.

The community of about 250 lived in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Que., for about a decade before youth protection authorities were alerted to allegations of widespread abuse and neglect. The Department of Youth Protection in the Laurentians ordered the parents of 14 children to appear in court last November, but the community fled en masse to Chatham-Kent, Ont. Last March, the community relocated again to Guatemala, though two of its members remain in foster families in Toronto.

If those children are still in foster care, they're lucky, as the following should make perfectly clear:

GREG RUCKA SIDES WITH ISLAMIC VICTIMOLOGY

Besides the screenshot of Gene Ha's troubling retweet, here's another screenshot of a retweet by an overrated leftist comics writer, this time being one Greg Rucka, who retweeted an item from one of England's worst papers, the Guardian:

Sigh. As seen at the top left corner, Rucka retweeted this living-in-a-bubble apologia and victimhood, letting a serious downside of his show in the process. All on the eve of 2014's 9-11 Memorial. He actually buys into someone spouting taqqiya? I'd recommend he look to a better source on the issue at the Toronto Sun, and that he take a look at what Steve Crowder is quoting from the Koran in the following tweet:

#NeverForget911 Quran8:39 - "& fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) & religion should be only for Allah"
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 11, 2014

So, who's Rucka going to believe? The word of a propagandist writing for one of the worst newspapers in the UK who doesn't acknowledge a single verse from within the Koran, or that of a guy stateside who cares about his country's safety and has the guts to cite one of the most telling verses from Islam's leading book?

And I hope Rucka's attending the 9-11 Memorial, because here's one Hollywooder who says liberals are turning a deaf ear and blind eye to 9-11. I don't think Rucka would want anybody to think he's just as bad as they are, would he?

MORE PROOF THAT GREEN IS THE NEW RED

PIRATES COVE:

Official ‘Partners of People’s Climate March in NYC:

1. Communist Party USA
2. Ecosocialist Horizons
3. International Socialist Organization
4. Democratic Socialists of America
5. Freedom Road Socialist Organization
6. Freedom Socialist Party
7. Socialist Action
8. Socialist Alternative
9. Socialist Party USA

Then, of course, there are lots of SEIU and 350.batsh*t insane chapters, Code Pink, the far far left Common Dreams, two chapters of Muslim Brotherhood linked CAIR, the insane World Can’t Wait, Teamsters, Women In Islam, MoveOn.org, and a whole raft of far left groups. 

GREEN IS THE NEW RED.

THEY'RE ALL WATERMELONS.

UPDATE: POWER LINE HAS MORE.

A MESSAGE FOR SCOTLAND: A "YES" VOTE IS A VOTE TO BECOME ANOTHER GREECE

JUST SAYING.

TAKING ORDERS FROM BRUSSELS AND USING THE EURO WILL NOT MAKE THINGS BETTER; IT WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE.

THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BENEFIT ARE THE SCOTTISH POLITICIANS AND THEIR CRONIES.

DON'T BE DUPED.

VOTE "NO".

AND THEN, THE VERY FIRST CHANCE YOU GET, VOTE UKIP.

MEGA-UH-OH: ENTIRE ISIS OPPOSITION WIPED OUT WITH A BOMB; IS THIS ANALOGOUS TO MASOUD'S ASSASSINATION AND DOES IT PORTEND ANOTHER 9/11?

BREITBART: ENTIRE LEADERSHIP OF ISIS OPPOSITION WIPED OUT BY 'UNEXPLAINED' EXPLOSION

Nearly fifty senior commanders of a major coalition of Islamic 'moderates' opposed to ISIS in Syria have been killed by an explosion at their secret command bunker as they met to discuss strategy against the the Islamic State. The blast in the Northwest region of Idlib, Syria on Tuesday killed senior members of rebel group the Ahrar-al-Sham brigade (AaS), including leader Hassan Abboud and 45 others including senior members from other rebel alliance groups, reports The Times. The Idlib region stands in AaS territory, but it is close to the front-line with ISIS in neighbouring Aleppo.

THIS EVENT REMINDS OF WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/09//01:

The suicide bombing attack on a charismatic Afghan guerrilla leader [Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir and the commander of the Northern Alliance, ] Sept. 9 appears to have been a preemptive strike by Osama bin Laden and his supporters to eliminate a CIA-backed opponent who could have been a powerful ally on the ground in any U.S. retaliation for the terrorist assaults two days later on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, intelligence sources said over the weekend.

I HOPE I'M WRONG.
BUT JUST IN CASE: BRACE YOURSELVES...

UPDATE: MORE HERE.

REMEMBERING 9-11, 13 YEARS AFTER

For this post on 2014's 9-11 Memorial, I'll add a couple tweets by noted writers:

Remembering all those lost #911 #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/iUJEB8Ovx5
— Patrick Poole (@pspoole) September 11, 2014

#911. Pause, & remember. #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/E7i77sqckR
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) September 11, 2014

To our American friends: 13 years later, we still stand with you in the fight against terror. pic.twitter.com/pvpJnnGIaa
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) September 11, 2014

#NeverForget911 Quran8:39 - "& fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) & religion should be only for Allah"
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 11, 2014

This is Israel's 9/11 Living Memorial outside Jerusalem, the only 9/11 memorial in the Middle East. #911anniversary pic.twitter.com/QE4pZS5KPX
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) September 11, 2014

And, a crucial reminder:

Here’s the 1st & last rule of Islamic jihad: If at first you don’t succeed, plot, plot again. 9/11 wasn’t the first. 9/11 won’t be the last.
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 11, 2014

She's right. Anybody who's a realist knows 9-11 isn't the last, and since then, there have been other, similar tragedies like the horror at Fort Hood.

IT HAS BEGUN: PUTIN WITHHOLDING GAS FROM POLAND

BBC: Russia's gas supplies to Poland have dropped by 45%, Poland's state gas firm PGNiG says, amid tensions over Ukraine.

The news came just hours after Poland stopped providing gas to Ukraine through "reverse-flow" pipelines. The Russian gas volumes were 24% lower on Tuesday and 20% lower on Monday, according to PGNiG. That shortfall prompted Poland to halt reverse-flow. Poland and Ukraine rely heavily on Russian natural gas. Russia is in a pricing dispute over gas with Ukraine. Some analysts believe Russia, which stopped gas supplies to Ukraine in June over the pricing dispute, is punishing Poland for sending gas to Ukraine.

IF WESTERN EUROPE CONTINUES SANCTIONS AGAINST PUTIN, THEN THEIR GAS/ENERGY SUPPLIES WILL BE CUT, TOO.

WITH EUROPE TEETERING INTO RECESSION NOW, THIS WILL ONLY MAKE THEIR ECONOMIES WORSE AND RECOVERY LESS LIKELY.

THE REAL/ULTIMATE/BOTTOM-LINE SOLUTION IS TO GET RID OF OBAMA - WHOSE 6 YEARS OF APPEASEMENT OF PUTIN - AKA THE "RESET" - HAS ENABLED PUTIN TO TAKE CRIMEA AND SET PUTIN UP TO REMAKE THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN HIS OWN IMAGE.

WITH OBAMA GONE, WE CAN DEPLOY NMD TO EUROPE AND EXPAND GAS AND OIL EXPLORATION HERE, AND EXPORT SUPPLIES TO EUROPE TO GET THEM OFF THEIR CURRENT ADDICTION TO RUSSIAN ENERGY.

I HOPE EUROPE AND THE WEST CAN MAKE IT TO INAUGURATION DAY 2017...

DOES BARRY'S FOREIGN POLICY MAKES MICHELLE'S ASS LOOK BIG?

QUESTION:

DOES BARRY'S FOREIGN POLICY MAKES MICHELLE'S ASS LOOK BIG?

YES, I THINK IT DOES.

Koskinen Caught In HUGE Kinsley Gaffe

WIKI DEFINITION: Kinsley gaffe - A Kinsley gaffe occurs when a political gaffe reveals some truth that a politician did not intend to admit.

Via Hot Air:

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/217288-irs-official-whenever-we-can-we-follow-the-law

During another grueling hearing on the ObamaCare rollout, the head of the Internal Revenue Service tried to offer lawmakers an assurance about the soon-to-open enrollment period.
“Whenever we can, we follow the law,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the House Ways and Means subcommittee on health on Wednesday. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), who leads the subcommittee, immediately expressed his concern with the remarks.
“I encourage you to follow the law in all instances,” Brady said. Koskinen, who was confirmed as head of IRS last December, has repeatedly faced lawmakers' ire over the agency's targeting of conservative groups.

THERE'S A HUGE COVER-UP. AND THE PEOPLE INVOLVED WOULD NOT HAVE ENGAGED IN THE COVER-UP UNLESS IT WAS NEEDED TO PROTECT THE WHITE HOUSE.

AND BY WHITE HOUSE I MEAN OUR LIAR&TRAITOR IN CHIEF: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SOETORO.

IMPEACHMENT IS TOO GOOD FOR THIS POS.

TYRANTS AND WANNABE TYRANTS LIKE HIM OFTEN END UP CHARGED, TRIED AND EXECUTED - OFTEN SHOT AND HUNG BY THEIR FEET.

"MEATLESS MONDAYS" IS A VIOLATION OF THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

Taking a page from long-standing Christian tradition — particularly Catholic tradition — taxpayer-funded public schools across the United States are now denying children the option of eating meat for lunch one day each week. For Catholics, and for different reasons, that day has been Friday for centuries. For American school children, the trendy new day of forswearing carnivorous deliciousness is Monday. 

“Meatless Monday” bills itself as an international campaign “launched in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.” It was founded by Sid Lerner, a longtime Madison Avenue advertising executive. The goal is to convince people to choose to give up meat one day each week because, as the Meatless Monday website explains, it’s “fantastic for the planet.”

Because "climate alarmism" is a religion, this violates the separation of church and state.

And another thing: meat is healthy. Carbs are bad for health. They should be banning bread, not meat.

VIDEO: NIGEL FARAGE: NOT A MAN WHO WANTS TO BE SOMETHING, BUT "A MAN WHO WANTS TO DO SOMETHING"

THE MAN WHO JUST MIGHT SAVE BRITAIN AND EUROPE...

BRUSSELS MURDERER PLANNED ATROCITY ON BASTILLE DAY

France 24 says the jihadist who committed murder at a Jewish museum in Belgium had more plans in store too:

Nemmouche made more headlines recently following reports that two former hostages, Nicolas Hénin and Didier François, had identified Nemmouche as one of their captors when they were being held by jihadists in Syria.

The pair were among four French journalists, along with Pierre Torrès and Edouard Elias, who were taken hostage by Islamic State militants in June 2013. They were released on April 20 this year.

Libération, allegedly citing evidence the former hostages gave to police, said Monday that Nemmouche, 29, had revealed while in Syria that he was planning a terrorist attack in France.

However, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve went on record at midday to say the story was “untrue”. The Paris prosecutor issued a statement on Monday saying that no information on a planned Paris attack had yet featured in the charges against Nemmouche.

But Libération stuck resolutely to its claims, insisting that the freed hostages, in an April 20 briefing with the French intelligence services, warned that their former captor – then unnamed – had threatened to attack Paris on Bastille Day on July 14.

The chances jihadists could pull something so sadistic is very real, and Cazeneuve's making a horrible error by denying the reports. And as this UK Telegraph item tells, it gets worse:

A freed French hostage held with David Haines has said one of his kidnappers took a perverse pleasure in torturing Syrian prisoners, and had boasted of how he had raped and killed a young mother before beheading her baby.

[...] Mr Hénin described hearing beatings going on all night until the dawn prayer. He said he had been beaten by Mr Nemmouche, adding: “I don’t know if he [Nemmouche] tortured other western prisoners.”

However, Mr Hénin's account matches reports of beatings inflicted on other hostages including James Foley and Steven Sotloff, the two American journalists who have been beheaded in the past month.

Mr Haines, 44, who was captured in March 2013, is also said to have been tortured in the early months of his captivity and left needing medical attention.

Mr Hénin described Mr Nemmouche as a publicity-loving sadist who “is awaiting trial with delight”. The magazine reporter said he was known as “Abu Omar the hitter” and had told him how he had enjoyed raping a woman before slitting her throat and killing her baby. “It’s such a pleasure to cut off a baby’s head,” Mr Hénin quoted him as saying.

Mr Hénin added that Mr Nemmouche had gone to Syria “not to construct an ideal but out of a lack of recognition, to fulfil himself.”

Obviously, he went to fulfill what he considers joy in sadism. That's about what to expect from anyone raised on the Koran.

OUR ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL RECESSION

AGW stands for anthropogenic global warming.

AGW is bs.

I've been saying it for over a decade.

Atmospheric CO2 continues to grow (today - BBC):

"A surge in atmospheric CO2 saw levels of greenhouse gases reach record levels in 2013, according to new figures. Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2012 and 2013 grew at their fastest rate since 1984. 

Yet the global climate isn't warming at all.

The alarmists have known this for a while; its why they changed the name of their bogeyman to "climate change". 

Still: any and all "changes" we've seen for the last two decades are totally within geohistoric climate change ranges.

Man-made global climate change is bullshit, too.

Sadly, it is NOT harmless bullshit.

Climate alarmism has raised the price of energy and severely industrial development - especially in the Third World. 

This has greatly harmed the poorest among us - by raising transportation costs it has raised the price of everything, which hurts the poorest people the most.

AGW is a principle cause of "AGR" - our "anthropogenic global recession".

The world's economies are struggling. Europe is going back into recession. China's staggering growth is slowing significantly  - so much so that it "Potemkin" economy may collapse as the USA economy did. And even the USA is pitiful economic growth at a level so low and for so long that more than 90 million Americans are now freelancers unable to get a salaried job. Unemployment and under employment have been in double digits for 5 years!

The ONLY thing that can jump start the global economy is a return to energy SANITY:

We need to accept that CO2phobia and the anti-"fossil" fuel movement has been a colossal hoax.

And then we need to rollback all the anti-CO2 taxes and anti-fossil fuel exploration/exploitation taxes and regulations.

This will IMMEDIATELY lead to a drop in the price of oil and coal and energy and electricity and then all the products which use energy or which are brought to the  market with energy.

The global economy will once again start growing - as a rate that will mean the quality of life and living standards for the masses will begin to improve once again.

IS THE EU BEHIND SCOTLAND'S "INDEPENDENCE" MOVEMENT????

SCOTLAND is voting in  independence in a few days. Recently,  the  anti-union side has taken the lead. This has already hurt the British pound.

 I wonder if the EU is financing the independence movement???

After all, Britain has been a thorn in the EU's side for years and they'd love to bring Britain and the pound down a notch.

An independent Scotland helps the EU more than it would Scotland.

For Scots,  the sad thing is that a vote to secede from Britain but remain in the EU would not make them more independent, as most laws would come from Brussels without much if any say by Scots.

The answer for Scotland is really to stay with Britain and get Britain out of the EU.

Scotland ruled by Brussels and using the euro is not a solution; it would make things worse for Scotland and Wales and England.

UK CONVERT TO GUESS WHAT BEHEADS GRANDMOTHER

A followup to the horror that took place last in year in Woolwich took place in London:

Details have begun to emerge about the man arrested for the murder of a great grandmother beheaded in her back garden.

He was named locally as Nicholas Salvadore, a 25-year-old would-be cage fighter who is believed to be a Muslim convert, who had been living a few doors from 82-year-old Palmira Silva.

Salvadore was under arrest and under armed guard in hospital today after the events in a street in north London yesterday. Detectives say they have ruled out terrorism as a motive.

Italian-born Mrs Silva, who owned a local café in Edmonton with her son Tony for more than 30 years, was found dead in the back garden of her home in Nightingale Road yesterday. Neighbours said a man dressed in black had decapitated cats with a foot-long machete-like blade and smashed the window of a car before running through rear gardens banging on doors and windows.

[...] Locals claimed Salvadore had converted to Islam last year.

And they'll just keep on acting like there's no connections between the two obscenities; note how they've already dismissed terrorism as a motivation. So it's clear nothing will come of this case either.

FORMER NETUREI KARTA MEMBER GIVES ART SHOW ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD

The daughter of a Neturei Karta member who left her family has set up an art exhibition in NYC telling about her childhood:

SHE HAS moved on, but she has not forgotten.

Sara Erenthal, who split from her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family as a teen, draws on the painful life she left behind in a series of intimate artworks on display in a Prospect Heights gallery.

“This is nice way to tell my story in a very minimal way,” the 33-year-old artist said.

Erenthal was born in Israel and spent much of her childhood in a small Neturei Karta community in Borough Park.

Her family returned to Israel when she was a teen, but she ran away to escape an arranged marriage, she said.

Erenthal had never really believed in the community’s strict teachings, which called for unwavering modesty for women and an end to the state of Israel.

“It’s not really about being good people,” Erenthal said. “It’s more about being afraid of God.”

I would only argue in response to this that it's not about fearing God (though she may be referring to the word Haredi, which means trembling before God) so much as it is thinking they know what God would want. It's also about corrupting Judaism into what some two-bit crackpots think it should be like.

But isn't that something. Despite their anti-Israel stance, they took up residence here, and probably lived on welfare, the only thing they must value about this country.

Ceremonial clothes hang on the wall next to portraits partially made of burlap, like the sacks Neturei Karta members wear to protests.

Video of Erenthal — naked and bound in holy tefillin straps — plays on television near a massive paper mache head adorned with braids made of rope, meant to show the hairstyle Erenthal was limited to as a child.

I wonder what the binding in tefillin is supposed to mean? That she was a technical prisoner of men who abuse tefillin while practicing a corrupted form of Judaism, among other ideas detrimental to the religion? But I can understand what she means by being limited to braids. It's shameful how they're so cruel, mentally or otherwise, to women in their cult.

It’s common for people who leave ultra-Orthodox communities to use art as therapy, but few make the jump to professional, said Rachel Berger, director of community engagement at Footsteps, a nonprofit service provider that has supported Erenthal’s work.

“She’s really chosen to make a life from her art and to live in the art world, and that’s an incredibly tough choice,” Berger said. “She has a real gift and a vision and a determination to put that gift out into the world.”

Erenthal sought out different paths after she left her family, serving in the Israeli Defense Forces and backpacking through India, before finally returning to New York and establishing herself as an artist, she said.

I congratulate her for serving in the army, an ideal way to tell what she thinks of the awful clan she left. She did the right thing to leave Neturei Karta, one of the most repellent of Haredi sects who make the Satmar look almost tame by comparison. And her new art career is a pretty good path to boot.