An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel
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Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after he hurled works of art to the floor, defacing two second-century Roman statues.
The vandalism late Thursday raised questions about the safety of Israel’s priceless collections and stirred concern about a rise in attacks on cultural heritage in Jerusalem.
Police identified the suspect as a radical 40-year-old Jewish American tourist and said initial questioning suggested he smashed the statues because he considered them “to be idolatrous and contrary to the Torah.”
The man’s lawyer, Nick Kaufman, denied that he had acted out of religious fanaticism.
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Go fuck yourself, Nick. Can we just shove all the religious zealots onto an island and laugh as they rip each other to shreds?
Sadly, that would have to be one huge island.
Something like North America
We’d also need a big peninsula. Like the middle east
Which is peskily not much of an island
The Panama canal made it an island, although it will be a poor defense against the theistic hordes
That's why Im saying it isn't much of one.
Ooh, a new Snake Pliskin movie!
That sounds like a ring of hell
That's... kind of Isreal / Jerusalem. Just not an island
Please include lawyers and I'm all in.