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Actor Russell Crowe calls Jewish circumcision 'barbaric' and compares it to human sacrifice
The Telegraph ^ | 06/10/2011

Posted on 06/10/2011 11:42:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Russell Crowe, the Gladiator star, has sparked outrage after describing circumcision as barbaric in an angry four-letter outburst on the social networking site Twitter.

The Oscar-winning actor laballed the practice “barbaric and stupid” during a row with his Twitter followers, telling them to “f--- off” if they disagreed with him.

The 47-year-old engaged in an angry exchange with one follower, whom he branded a “moron”, before imploring Jewish people to “stop cutting your babies”.

The debate followed a question by one of his fans called @picknic11 who asked him: “My son is due soon. Do you think I should get him circumstanced? [sic]”

Crowe, who hit the headlines in 2005 when he was charged with second-degree assault in New York after throwing a telephone at a hotel employee, tweeted: “Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect.”

He added: “Many Jewish friends, I love my Jewish friends, I love the apples and the honey and the funny little hats but stop cutting yr babies.

“I will always stand for the perfection of babies, I will always believe in God, not man's interpretation of what God requires.

“Last of it, if u feel it is yr right 2 cut things off yr babies please unfollow and f--- off, I'll take attentive parenting over barbarism.”

The outburst provoked dozens of responses from his followers. One said: “There's actually a scientific reason for [circumcision], u should google it.”

Crowe replied: “My friend, "human" science has caused too much damage, don't be a moron.”

Another follower told him: “I disagree on Circumcision , It's more hygienic and nobody remembers it”, to which Crowe replied “Hygienic? Why don't you sew up your a-- then?"

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2ignorant4words; anteater; asgodmadehim; australia; circumcision; genitalmutilation; homosexual; israel; jews; russellcrowe; smegma; stinky
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To: Mount Athos

Doesn’t make him any less a mindless idiot.


21 posted on 06/10/2011 12:03:38 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Paleo Conservative

22 posted on 06/10/2011 12:04:39 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray. For all the latest, check out: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/)
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To: SeekAndFind

I will add Russel Crowe to my DO NOT WATCH list
along with Julia Roberts, Barbara Streisand ... etc.

Makes choosing a movie much easier.


23 posted on 06/10/2011 12:05:01 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: SeekAndFind
one of his fans called @picknic11 who asked him: “My son is due soon. Do you think I should get him circumstanced? [sic]”

Why of course, when my husband and I made an important decision about our son, we should have consulted Russell Crowe. /s

24 posted on 06/10/2011 12:09:30 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (To paraphrase Sarah Palin: "I love when the liberals get all wee-wee'd up.")
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To: SeekAndFind
There's a specific context for this. There's a group based in San Diego pushing this particular legislation, but it's not isolated to that: there's a concerted, coordinated effort to make anti-Semitism acceptable again. Be prepared, call 'em out whenever possible.
25 posted on 06/10/2011 12:10:00 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.)
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To: SeekAndFind

One of my favorite “Saturday Night Live” bits ever is when the original series spoofed a then-current Mercury Marquis commercial. In the original, they demonstrated that car’s smooth ride by having a gemcutter cut a diamond while sitting in the back seat. In the SNL parody, they had a rabbi do a circumcision in the back seat. As Lee Iacocca later described it in his memoirs, “Believe me, the suspense in the diamond-cutter ad was nothing compared to the tension in this one.”


26 posted on 06/10/2011 12:13:14 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: SeekAndFind

Ah gee, another foul mouthed actor thinking his opinion actually matters to anyone but himself.


27 posted on 06/10/2011 12:13:54 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: hometoroost

I think we have a winner!


28 posted on 06/10/2011 12:14:04 PM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: SeekAndFind

Mel Gibson called to say thanks for taking the heat off him.


29 posted on 06/10/2011 12:14:31 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Paleo Conservative

He probably doesn’t even know that muslims also engage in the practice. I’m sure he’ll apologize for opposing it once this fact is pointed out to him.


30 posted on 06/10/2011 12:16:14 PM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone should’ve asked him if he considers killing unborn babies to be “barbaric” as well.


31 posted on 06/10/2011 12:17:18 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Paleo Conservative

He should carp......he has a speech impediment. I honestly don’t know how he actually got parts.


32 posted on 06/10/2011 12:18:34 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind
“Hygienic? Why don't you sew up your a-- then?"

Okay, I admit it. I laughed when I read that...

33 posted on 06/10/2011 12:22:59 PM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: Paleo Conservative

Hey crowe stick with your day job and if we want your opinion we’ll kick you in the ba**s to let you know.


34 posted on 06/10/2011 12:24:20 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, Lordie! The community that perfected freakish cutting (i.e., facelifts, breast lifts, etc.) speaking out on circumcision. I’d laugh if I didn’t cry.


35 posted on 06/10/2011 12:25:00 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (W)
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To: Gaffer

““Abortion should always be a woman’s choice, there is no benefit to ‘forced’ motherhood…you got it? don’t like it then bye,” he tweeted.”

Crowe tweeted this during his circumcision rant.

Last movie of his I will ever go see.


36 posted on 06/10/2011 12:27:31 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Sarah Palin - SheÂ’s living rent-free inside the MSMÂ’s heads. Credited to Lurk)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Actually, if we can stick to the subject of cutting (rather than murdering) let’s ask him about Joan River’s face cuts (not face lifts) and Chastity Bono’s hacking off of her breasts. But, then, Mr. Crowe isn’t really too bright, is he?


37 posted on 06/10/2011 12:27:45 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (W)
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To: Charlespg
what the hell is it with liberals and circumcision all of a sudden ?

The liberal position on all subjects is the opposite of whatever the Bible says for any given situation. Anti Christian and Jewish, thats what cranks their tractors.

38 posted on 06/10/2011 12:28:50 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (1 Cor. 15:1-4 Believe it!)
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To: SeekAndFind
I am not familiar with a ot of the ‘language and culture’ of Twitter, Face Book, etc. etc.

Does “unfollow” mean to remove someone from one’s list of twerps, tweeters, twits, (or whatever they are called) from whom one receives twittled, tweeted, twerped (or whatever whatever it is called) messages?

I am thinking of starting up a ‘Social Network’ of my own, though. It will be geared towards people like Joe Biden, Chris Matthews, Anthony Weiner, Russell Crowe, etc. (those who can't seem to stop inserting their electronic feet in to their internet-based mouths). And I shall call it: ‘FacePalmBook’

39 posted on 06/10/2011 12:33:53 PM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: EQAndyBuzz
It is a form of Jew hatred (the circumcision thing). However, it is not a procedure only practiced by Jews. When someone has a career as 'aktor', it can usually be followed by imbecile.
40 posted on 06/10/2011 12:34:01 PM PDT by Gaffer
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