Good morning. A 14-year-old Jewish girl from Toronto is missing. Her name is Esti, and everyone is thinking, what if something horrible has happened to her? God forbid. We don’t want to say what we’re worried about.
But you can’t help but think, in light of what’s going on with the Muslim prayer outside of Bnos Leah in Brooklyn, whether this is part of a much larger and more disturbing pattern of using the threat of sexual violence and sexual violence itself to intimidate, harass, terrorize, and ultimately displace the Jewish community. So what do we do about it? Okay, I think the first thing that we need to do is to watch our girls. That means they don’t go out at night unsupervised.
They go out in groups. The rules of yesterday, when they were free, are suspended until we no longer have an enemy trying to demoralize, destroy, and enslave us through our children, our daughters, our women. That’s the first thing.
The second thing is that every legal option and challenge must be brought to bear against these Islamist terrorists and their advocates who hide under official robes, but whose agenda is pure hate and genocide against the Jewish people. The next thing that we need to do is to be very active and aware—demonstrating, using social media, writing letters, drafting petitions—nonstop pressure to let the world know that we are watching, that we know what they’re doing, and that we are not fooled. Finally, for those of us who are not educated about the campaign of rape terror that has gone on against women by Islamists, not only Jewish women, women in general, please educate yourself.
Look around the world. Look at Afghanistan, where it is now legal to rape a child her whole child life through the implementation of laws permitting child marriage. The kidnapper, the rapist, becomes the husband.
Get going. We don’t have time.
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 