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Kid's Purim Costume : The Burning Twin Towers [W:44]

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Purim has begun, and just like with Halloween, children around the world are proudly parading around in their inventive costumes. This is one of the best times of year for our youngin’s- dressing up, going to parties, playing with friends, and playing make-believe… but what about the poor kids that are used as models for their parents distasteful creative endeavors?
Enter Ilay and Nehaoray, seven-year-old twins from Israel whose parents “playfully” decided to dress their children up in famous twin costumes: the Twin Towers. Not only are the kids dressed as the famous New York City buildings, they are fashioning the structures while on fire… with the planes sticking out of the side right near the children’s eye holes. Popular news website Ynet originally posted the image, with the headline “Twin Towers and other costumes this Purim.”
Kid's Purim Costume Idea: The Burning Twin Towers? [PHOTO] - Shalom Life
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24107 said:
Purim has begun, and just like with Halloween, children around the world are proudly parading around in their inventive costumes. This is one of the best times of year for our youngin’s- dressing up, going to parties, playing with friends, and playing make-believe… but what about the poor kids that are used as models for their parents distasteful creative endeavors?
Enter Ilay and Nehaoray, seven-year-old twins from Israel whose parents “playfully” decided to dress their children up in famous twin costumes: the Twin Towers. Not only are the kids dressed as the famous New York City buildings, they are fashioning the structures while on fire… with the planes sticking out of the side right near the children’s eye holes. Popular news website Ynet originally posted the image, with the headline “Twin Towers and other costumes this Purim.”
Kid's Purim Costume Idea: The Burning Twin Towers? [PHOTO] - Shalom Life
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This must be something out of the hat of the parents, I doubt that kids will want to dress up like burning towers for anything. This is just as tasteless as this Dov Hikind fella that is a big complainer about anyone who dares portray Jews or Israel in a way that he finds offensive, but than dresses up as a black person for Purim?

The guy likes gay weddings to incest, wants Arafat out of Madame Tusseau's wax museum, refuses to allow the UN building to be renovated (because it is anti-American and anti-Israel) and calls for racial profiling by the NYPD about people who look like Muslims and called the passion of the Christ "the passion is a lethal weapon against Jews", but dressing up like a black basketball player is fine.

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Let's just say, this costume and the one from the NY representative are much like traditional purim costumes, now it looks a bit "as Jon Stewart called it" Halloween but just a few months too late.

Anyway, burning twin towers for purim? Bad taste in costumes from the parents.
 
This little event seems fraught with all sorts of Freudian implications....
 
Douchebags
 
This is such earthshattering News that will impact us all greatly.

It's a good thing that there are posters here who scour the net looking for anything that makes Jews look bad so we can remain informed of these important world events.
 
My first reflex was to say "Whoa, really, REALLY bad taste at a minimum..."

I still think it is, but...

The custom of masquerading in costume and the wearing of masks probably originated among the Italian Jews at the end of the 15th-century.[32] The concept was possibly influenced by the Roman carnival and spread across Europe. The practice was only introduced into Middle Eastern countries much later during the 19th-century. The first among Jewish codifiers to mention the custom was Mahari Minz (d. 1508 at Venice).[33] .....

Other reasons given for the custom: It is a way of emulating God who "disguised" his presence behind the natural events described in the Purim story, and has remained concealed (yet ever-present) in Jewish history since the times of the destruction of the first Temple. Since charity is a central feature of the day, when givers and/or recipients disguise themselves this allows greater anonymity thus preserving the dignity of the recipient. Persian Exile throughout the Purim story, and since hides behind alludes to hidden aspect of the miracle of Purim which was "disguised" by natural events.[34]
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Hmmm.

If someone (the parents I imagine) felt that the recent US intervention in the mideast (ie removing Saddam) was of great benefit to Israel and caused by the Twin Towers, then I can see where they might think it was a suitable Purim costume from the description above... an "act of God" that ultimately resulted in something that helped preserve them from their enemies.

Still think it is in poor taste but maybe not as insane as I first thought.
 
another day, another poorly cloaked stormfronter trying to stir up anti-semitic sentiment.
 
Gardener said:
This is such earthshattering News that will impact us all greatly.

It's a good thing that there are posters here who scour the net looking for anything that makes Jews look bad so we can remain informed of these important world events.
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I did not think, how dare these Jewish people. I didn't even think of the religious origin of the parents, just about their bad taste/disrespectful taste in purim costumes.
 
Helix said:
another day, another poorly cloaked stormfronter trying to stir up anti-semitic sentiment.
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This IMHO has nothing to do with anti-semitic views but with a costume being in poor taste. I would have thought exactly the same thing if someone would have dressed up their kids like this on Halloween. Poor taste is just poor taste, nothing more and nothing less.
 
Peter King said:
I did not think, how dare these Jewish people. I didn't even think of the religious origin of the parents, just about their bad taste/disrespectful taste in purim costumes.
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You were not the one who originated the posting and who has such an undeniable track record for being here for the express purpose of disparaging Jews.

What you did was simply add fuel by dredging up something similar.
 
Goshin said:
My first reflex was to say "Whoa, really, REALLY bad taste at a minimum..."

I still think it is, but...




Hmmm.

If someone (the parents I imagine) felt that the recent US intervention in the mideast (ie removing Saddam) was of great benefit to Israel and caused by the Twin Towers, then I can see where they might think it was a suitable Purim costume from the description above... an "act of God" that ultimately resulted in something that helped preserve them from their enemies.

Still think it is in poor taste but maybe not as insane as I first thought.
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I think that you are giving the parents way too much credit.

I wonder how they would feel if someone else dressed their kids in SS uniforms.

The poor taste sword cuts both ways.
 
Gardener said:
You were not the one who originated the posting and who has such an undeniable track record for being here for the express purpose of disparaging Jews.

What you did was simply add fuel by dredging up something similar.
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Well, I did that because I thought it hypocritical from mr. Dov Hikind, he has the right to protest anti-Jewish material but then the should not risk the same indignation from black people by dressing up like a black basketball player. Because what is good for the goos is good for the Gander. I saw it on the Daily Show and I just thought, making a mistake is one thing but then own up to your mistake, apologize and promise to not to it again, mr. Hikind did not do this in the footage I saw.

But, it would be the same for me if a known African American civil rights protester would have dressed up like a Orthodox Jewish person. Or if that same man would have dressed up like a Palestinian or anything else insensitive to other people.

That too is not a religious issue for me, I just think that if you are highly sensitive to make sure you and your cultural/religious/racial are not slighted and insulted, you should do your best not to do it to other races/cultures/religions too.
 
Peter King said:
This IMHO has nothing to do with anti-semitic views but with a costume being in poor taste. I would have thought exactly the same thing if someone would have dressed up their kids like this on Halloween. Poor taste is just poor taste, nothing more and nothing less.
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oh, bull****. they come to legitimate sites and try to mainstream; strategically posting anti-Jewish news stories to get their point across without getting banned. it's ****ing transparent.
 
For some reason I think that if a Muslim had done this, we'd have endless Conservative posts screaming "Religion of peace".
 
Why is religion even being discussed? Some douches dressed their kids up in an abhorrent costume. Who gives a crap about what their religion is.
 
Hatuey said:
For some reason I think that if a Muslim had done this, we'd have endless Conservative posts screaming "Religion of peace".
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If a poster arrived here who did nothing but dredge up such articles and who tried to tar all Muslims accordingly, it is more likely that very people who are defending this one would be screaming "Islamophobe!"
 
That's a bit paranoid, really.

I have known and still do know good jewish people. I've made love to jewish women, so I'm not antisemitic. ;)

But there is a huge difference between good jewish people and the government of Israel.

And unfortunately, the fingerprints of that government are all over too many suspicious acts. I don't want it to be that way, it just IS that way.
 
Fishstyx said:
Why is religion even being discussed? Some douches dressed their kids up in an abhorrent costume. Who gives a crap about what their religion is.
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I have to agree here. It was not like this was some thing that ran through the jewish community. About the only thing this proves is jewish people are just as capable of distasteful expressions of idiocy as any other group of people. bad choice for a costume, but really not very important at all. how far did they have to look to find this? It is like hunting around for the crazy person after some fire to make a story. i aint got no time for that.
 
I have to say I'd never heard the term Purim until now, so if nothing else I consider this a bit of new knowledge and every day should include broadened knowledge.
 
Gardener said:
If a poster arrived here who did nothing but dredge up such articles and who tried to tar all Muslims accordingly, it is more likely that very people who are defending this one would be screaming "Islamophobe!"
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You mean like the gang of Conservatives who dredge up such articles and you never seem to have a problem with? Gardener only seems to have a problem with stories that speak badly of the good Israelis. You've essentially ignored the most salient point of this thread, which is you know, the facts that these kids parents are questionable at best, and moved straight ahead into your broken record screams of antisemitism and rah-rah-rah-Israel.
 
Hatuey said:
For some reason I think that if a Muslim had done this, we'd have endless Conservative posts screaming "Religion of peace".
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If my grandmother had three wheels she'd be a tricycle
 
Helix said:
oh, bull****. they come to legitimate sites and try to mainstream; strategically posting anti-Jewish news stories to get their point across without getting banned. it's ****ing transparent.
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I do not know why you think that but it is a non-issue to me, it is disgraceful that people dress up like 9-11, no matter what faith they are.
 
Peter King said:
I do not know why you think that but it is a non-issue to me, it is disgraceful that people dress up like 9-11, no matter what faith they are.
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agreed. and it's also disgraceful that stormfronters come here and try to mainstream. it's like throwing a turd into the barrel of cider. even though it's just a little bit of ****, most people who see it don't want to take a drink, and it scares legitimate posters away. that pisses me off.
 
I can think of many other costumes that would be far more offensive than twin tower costumes. Besides, the towers don't really look like towers, they look more like japanese shoji screens. But I guess if these twins were girls, most of you would be ok with them dressed up like whores. That seems like what an american would do in this day and age.
 
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