How did tefillin become scarier than a burqa?

Picture this:

You turn on the radio.
A Very Serious Commentator™ declares with great moral urgency:

“The most dangerous trend in Israeli society today is religious coercion!”

And you’re left wondering… really? That’s the crisis of the decade?

So here’s a partial list of the terrifying phenomena allegedly threatening the enlightened republic:

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• A soldier put on tefillin at the base.
• A student heard a blessing during a Memorial Day ceremony.
• A girl received a prayer book at a public school.
• Someone wished a stranger “Shabbat shalom”… with a smile.

Horrifying. Truly civilization-ending.

But now let’s take a quick detour-south, north, east, pick a direction.

In many Arab towns and villages:

• Boys and girls sit separately in school – not because they chose to, but because that’s simply the rule.
• Local councils hold public events where women aren’t present – not out of “autonomy,” but out of pressure.
• Neighborhoods exist where a woman wearing pants is treated as a “public provocation.”
• And religious, familial, and communal pressure often reaches levels of fear and control that would send human-rights NGOs into cardiac arrest… if they cared.

But about this?

Silence.
No investigative reports.
No special committees.
No “Breaking the Silence – Muslim Edition.”
No “Seculars, We’re Fed Up” movement inside the sector.

So what’s the difference between “religious coercion” and Islamization?

Religious coercion:
Jewish tradition, in a Jewish state – therefore always “oppression.”

Islamization:
Another religion, within a “marginalized minority” – therefore “cultural diversity.”

When a Jew respects tradition, it’s “a threat to democracy.”
When someone else demands gender-segregated seating in a public auditorium, it’s “an identity to be respected.”

And that journalist yelling “religious coercion!” – what is he actually saying?

“I’m not afraid of religion.
I’m afraid of Jewish religion.”

In other words:

• Put on tefillin? You’re a missionary.
• Offer an after-school Torah class? You’re dragging the country into medieval darkness.
• Wear a hijab in class? A triumph of free choice and personal empowerment.

The final absurdity?

That the world’s only Jewish state is also the only place where the word “Jewish” is treated as suspicious – and where “tradition” triggers more alarm than “sharia.”

So here’s the golden rule:

Whenever someone claims “We must keep religion out of the public sphere,” check whether they mean all religions – or only yours.

Because “religious coercion” isn’t the real danger.

The real danger is when, in the name of tolerance, you’re asked to erase yourself.

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