4a3d2da39950c39aab61bdfa3dd206ca APDecember 26, 2011: Naama Margolese, 8, sits with her mother Hadassa in their home in the central Israeli town of Beit Shemesh.BEIT SHEMESH, Israel A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel's latest religious war.Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of ultra-Orthodox extremists who have spat on her and called her a whore for dressing "immodestly."Her plight has drawn new attention to the simmering issue of religious coercion in Israel, and the increasing brazenness of extremists in the insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community."When I walk to school in the morning I used to get a tummy ache because I was so scared ... that they were going to stand and start yelling and spitting," the pale, blue-eyed girl said softly in an interview with The Associated Press Monday. "They were scary. They don't want us to go to the school."Th
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