Only 9 days after the Sunday Age gave front-page coverage to an ignorant and biased anti-Shechita campaign, most of the city and environs felt a 'heavenly jolt' which they claim is a forewarning of what may happen if anti-Shechita laws are implemented.
AJN Watch, an Australian blog written by anonymous Orthodox and/or Chabad ultra-Orthodox bloggers upset with coverage of the ultra-Orthodox/Orthodox community, weighed in on the public criticism of shechita, Jewish ritual slaughter, in the general Australian media with a bit of theodicy:
WARNING: "Don't start with Shechita!"
Were the people of Melbourne and surrounding country areas the addressees of a (not-so) gentle warning message aimed at the state and federal governments?
Saying: "Don't mess with Shechita!"
To many in the community it may indeed seem so.
Only 9 days after the Sunday Age gave front-page coverage to an ignorant and biased anti-Shechita campaign, most of the city and environs felt a 'heavenly jolt' which they claim is a forewarning of what may happen if anti-Shechita laws are implemented.
They cite as proof the case of New Zealand where last year the government declared plans to ban Shechita - under pressure from a minister who was later allegedly found to have a strong conflict of interest in the matter.
Well, we all know what has happened in New Zealand since that time. Not one, but two devastating and destructive earthquakes plus hundreds of aftershocks have almost totally destroyed life in the city of Christchurch. In fact they just had another one today - this time in the North Island.
So who knows? Maybe there is some link between Shechita bans and earthquakes...
Someone, (possibly Michael Danby and David Southwick,) should pass on the message to Julia Gillard and Ted Baillieu - "Don't risk it!"