Huh? What are you talking about. Satmars are good Jews and I listen to many Chassidic Rabbis, some of whom are Satmar. Who are you to judge them? Now you are really getting on my nerves. You come into the Torah and Jewish ideas forum and start talking like this...
I request that you refrain from this lest I complain to some higher authorities. My patience is running out with some members here, you know who I am talking about..
What other Jews do you curse and speak evil of C.F.? I am really wondering if there is an ounce of humanity in that body of yours. Every single post I have ever read of you was always cursing or speaking ill of somebody. Why don't you do something positive one of these days?
Who here at JTF considers themselves a Shas supporter? I have never heard anyone profess this. I have heard some of the more righteous Jews say that every religious Jew should be respected, and Shas Rabbi should be respected. This is a position I support to, based on very much study of Jewish wisdom.
The quote of you that I have bolded was
completely uncalled for, and I expect an apology. No matter how much we disagree, I have not once insulted you.
And moreover, like I said before, my comments were not even directed at you. There is at least one member here who is extremely pro-Shas, but I did not mean you.
I disagree that most Satmars are good Jews. This is the sect of Judaism whose Rav (Teitelbaum) denounced any and all Zionist Jews and even made the absurd statement that the Shoah was G-d's punishment to Jewry for supporting Zionism. If this was true, then why did a greater percentage of Hungarian Satmars perish in the Holocaust (thanks in no small part to the deal that Kastner [yimach schmo] and his friend Teitelbaum had with the Nazis) than almost any other Jewish group?
Many Satmars actively curse and pray against all Zionist Jews and even consider them goyim. That is an abomination in Hashem's eyes, period.
Chaim has said that a few Satmars very quietly took part in JDL activities to free Soviet Jewry, but they were definitely a minority. Satmarism is a cult of Judaism that should be abandoned for true Torah Zionism.
And finally, I criticized the entire Shas party and its political agenda, not any one person or rabbi.