At Family Security Matters, Ruth S. King examines the upcoming synagogue/mosque "Week of Twinning":
A full page ad in the New York Times of November 11th heralded November 21-23 as a “Week of Twinning” when Canadian and American synagogues and their respective rabbis and an equal number of mosques and mullahs will “join together to confront Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in their respective communities.”This interfaith confab will be under the auspices of good old King Abdullah bin Aziz of Saudi Arabia, one of the most repressive regimes in the world which funds, promotes and teaches terrorism and fanatical hatred of all “infidels” and is the locus of all but two of the terrorists who perpetrated 9/11.
The deluded rabbis (I’m holding back here) fail to comprehend they are being “had” by the wily king and his co-religionists. Has anyone vetted the sermons of the imams that are so perturbed by prejudice? Did a single one of them ever denounce terrorism or the various and sundry texts in the hadith and the Koran that incite hatred and death to all unbelievers? Are the rabbis aware of the centuries of relentless Islamic anti-Semitism which antedate the Arab/Israel war? Will a single one of those mullahs invite Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq, Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan, or Dan Pipes to speak to their congregations of the need to reform Islam, curb Sharia Law, and abolish Jihad? In a word….no.
On the other hand, the rabbis involved in this silly posturing would probably be delighted to invite the good old Wahabbi thug to their synagogues to foster “understanding.” You know….Isn’t talk always better than war and isn’t peace the noble way and aren’t there plenty of passages in the Koran that talk of love and faith and aren’t there passages in the Old Testament that promote violence and didn’t Jews and Arabs enjoy real co-existence at one time, and didn’t we also have grannies who said mean things about other races?Thanks to these participants in the sham, the "twinning" is now permanent and you can’t denounce anti-Semitism without also denouncing its “sister” hatred Islamophobia.
The dictionary defines anti-Semitism as "hostility and prejudice to Jews." Historically it is mostly associated with Dachau, and Auschwitz, but there were centuries of murder, and dislocation of Jews in Europe and in all Arab lands with short eras of ‘tolerance.”
Currently, anti-Semitism is manifested in harassment, vilification, physical assaults, and murder of Jews, including terrorism and suicide bombings. In all Muslim countries sermons, school texts, broadcasts, and newspapers denounce Jews. These examples of visceral hatred for Jews run the gamut from cartoons, depicting Jews as apes, to calls for "death to the Jews," promotions of blood libels, and holocaust denial. UN assemblies, as well as affiliated organizations and conferences always degenerate into Jew-baiting. In the more elite intellectual Left “salons” of Europe and the United States it is openly manifested in shrill criticism of Israel, particularly among tenured professors in Middle East departments funded by oil rich Arab Kingdoms.
Only a few days ago, Arab students at University of California at Berkeley attacked participants at an Israel Liberation Week concert. Witnesses reported the attack by thugs shouting epithets and calling Jews “Nazis’ and “dogs.”
Now, what about "Islamophobia," a word not included in the dictionary? It is a phony construct. The word phobia is defined as an "irrational fear or aversion." If anyone can discover people who are motivated by an irrational hatred of Muslims rather than a well based fear of those, who, prompted by the tenets of Islam, attempt to murder infidels, stone, behead and flog those who dishonor Allah, and, most horrific, murder their own progeny in “honor killings” by all means let them bring such examples forward.
There are indeed moderate Muslims who have suffered persecution, dislocation, murder and genocide….at the hands of other Muslims. See Darfur. See Somalia. See Iraq.
There are, in America, decent and law abiding and devout Muslim families. Other than perfunctory criticism of the perpetrators of 9/11, or embassy bombings, or marine barracks bombings, or the USS Cole, they don’t speak out and they expose their children to the fanatical hatreds of the mosques. Recently, I had an exchange with a lovely and soft spoken woman from Nigeria, who has been here for 17 years. She told me her children go to a mosque school where they learn Koran and Arabic. When I questioned why they learn Arabic since that is not one of the myriad languages of Nigeria, she told me that Arabs pay for the schooling. One can only imagine what her children learn in an Arab funded madrassa. One could also question why after so many years in this country her family is not assimilated.
Muslims have killed more Americans than any group or state since the end of the Vietnam War. Yet, in an unflagging effort to reassure Muslims we were continually told that these terrorists “hijacked a great religion” and those who use it for violent ends are engaged in a “perversion” of the faith.
Even seemingly honorable defenders of the faith have masqueraded as moderates until they were apprehended for conspiring to aid or fund jihad and al Qaeda through communal or charitable organizations.
There are over 200 documented episodes where the “perverters” of the faith have been apprehended and thwarted in deadly plans right here in the United States. The charges all range from financing Islamic terrorism, obstructing justice by refusing to testify or by aiding terrorist wannabes, to stockpiling and transporting explosives and weapons, attempting to bomb airlines and military bases, providing false tips to federal law enforcement, assault and murder of family members who dishonor the family, smuggling false passports, committing arson and conspiring to kill and maim civilians.
There are probably an equal number of “sleeper cells” which have been discovered and thwarted but an unsettling number which continue to operate and plot under the radar of law enforcement.
Is it irrational or bigoted to fear them? No. It's prudent.
We should we demand that our elected legislators consider our safety and homeland security and confront and condemn putative terrorists and those who aid and abet them instead of pandering to the whining and pretended “victimhood” of those who would destroy us. I am afraid for our country. I fear creeping Sharia, and it is high time for the purported great majority of peaceful Muslims to speak out loudly and forcefully against fanatical hatred of Jews and Christians and to denounce violence and terrorism and dreams of a global Caliphate.
Finally, is it not perverse to trivialize the historic shame and curse of anti-Semitism by linking it to the calculated whims and deceptions of those who practice, preach and promote Jew hatred and genocide?
You betcha!
Oy Gevalt, and I'm not even Jewish, but this is just beyond creepy. What can I say about the ignorance of these rabbis? Would it be bad form and antisemitic of me if I liken them to those self-deluded Jews of the 1930s who, in the face of an impending holocaust convinced themselves that they were living among civilized folk like themselves, and they certainly considered themselves more German than Jewish and surely their wealth and wits would protect them...
How is it even possible that these rabbis could be so blazingly ignorant of the teachings of the Koran and Hadith?
It is the same deadly brainworm that infects the suicidal Israeli intelligentsia to close their eyes and visualize peace.
Peace of the Grave.
We live in wicked days. Look on these fools and weep.
"Recently, I had an exchange with a lovely and soft spoken woman from Nigeria, who has been here for 17 years. She told me her children go to a mosque school where they learn Koran and Arabic."
Why are we still allowing them in to our country? And how many of our new president's relatives, including numerous Muslims, from East Africa is he going to bring here after the inevitable man-made or natural disaster strikes that unfortunate region?
The deluded rabbis (I’m holding back here)
Here's another -- Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, whose obsequious groveling before the Islamic Society of North America last year I noted at:
http://greenspiece.blogspot.com/2007/09/fantasies-and-falsehoods.html
These people are essentially functioning as ideological sonderkommandos.
I am sick and tired of the mention of so called moderate Muslims. Whenever I find myself in conversation with a seemingly nominal or cultural Muslim, I opt to go straight to the heart of the matter....or jugular if you like. This is the acid test: give them the run down on Mohammed...you know, the usual catalogue of horrors that was his time on earth....and then deliver the sucker punch that he was a psychopathic fraud, a charlatan who established the world's longest lasting and most pernicious totalitarian ideology. This bombardment of truth exposes their fake moderation and reveals their psychotic belief in Mohammed as being a perfect model of conduct. You will also find that they are incapable of reflecting on the validity and veracity of this belief and unwilling to even listen to information that may contradict their view. But the worst outcome is the hostility towards their rational, truth and freedom loving interlocutor, which can and does result in their taking personal offence,inflicting verbal abuse, or threatening and committing acts of violence, and last but not least, that old chestnut, the death threat.
Moderate Muslims? Forget it and just add it to the list of tragi-comic oxymorons that lengthens everyday.
An MSM outlet weighs in, with predictable puffery:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/112108dnmettwinning.3f026c7.html
No Jewel, it would not be bad form to tell the truth and call idiots out on their regressive ignorance and stupidity, just like it would not be in bad form for to do the same with those deluded, ignorant Jews who claim that they were treated better under Andalusian dhimmitude than they were by the Christians, or who condemn the Christian crusaders who saved Western civilization, since under Western civilization is the only place where Jews are safe today. You have my permission as a Jew to shout it from every mountaintop. Jews are the most educated segment of society, and yet we're nonetheless by and large the world's biggest dhimmis and it's disgusting, and we're dhimmis because we don't investigate Islam. Granted, it's an incredibly painful history, but we should know better. We all should. I hate Jew-icidal pacifism and obsequiousness, but I must get that from my Italian mother. Ruth King's 'twinning' is Hugh's 'taqiyya and tu quoque,' only less accurate. Still, I admire her as a journalist.
Yay, jdamn. I'll get right on it. I only hesitate, because Chuckles might call me antisemite nazi mouth foamer or some such invective. But now I have the Jewish Stamp of Approval, I'm gonna hurl some cathartic invective, man. HURL!
johndoe
that's interesting.
Do you also express love of, and respect for, The Gifts of the Jews, condemnation of all forms of antisemitism, and declare support for the Jewish state of Israel? I should think that would be a sure-fire way to rip the mask off a good many supposedly 'moderate' Muslims.
jdamn - I just wrote a review of Bostom's "Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism" for the parish paper of the mid-size (100-200- person congregation) suburban Anglican church that I attend. (I edit the paper, you see - I have to find *something* to help fill up the pages...). It will be interesting to see how people react.
This is what I wrote towards the end of the review:
"'The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism' should be in every parish, municipal, university and theological college library, and in every yeshiva and synagogue library, throughout the non-Muslim world.
"If all Jewish and Christian religious leaders were to read, and take seriously, 'The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism', they might be a little more wary of plausibly smiling imams and pretty girls in hijabs at ‘interfaith’ gatherings, rattling off a patter of meaningless platitudes about ‘the three Abrahamic faiths’.
"And if our diplomats and journalists and politicians were to read it, they might begin to grasp that the so-called ‘two-state solution’ may well be, for many on the Muslim side, merely a temporary stepping-stone along the way to the total destruction of Israel and the forcible imposition, upon any surviving Jews, of their proper Allah-ordained role as dehumanised and exploited dhimmis." END QUOTE.
How, how, how do we get our priests and pastors (if we are Christian) and rabbis (this is your call, Jewish jihadwatchers) to read Bostom's book?? And not only read it, but take it seriously?
That's a very good question, DDA. It would kill the "Jerusalem is the center of the three great faiths" meme. It's a fascinating book. if people read it they would also be likely to read the Koran and the Hadith. We could save the world with that knowledge. Dr. Bostom has done the world a great serive by writing both of his books and I agree that they should be mandatory reading.
I've got two copies of Bostoms 'Legacy of Islamic anti-Semitism" and I"m thinking of giving my extra copy to my local synagogue for their library.
Dumbledoresarmy: You're spot on there. I forgot Islamic Jew hatred. Of course. So that's the way to cut through the niceties and taquiya....critique Mohammed and praise and express respect for the Jews and then see what happens. Instant exposure.
johndoe
the 'Jews/ Israel' test works both ways, of course.
If you encounter a person who identifies as Muslim, but does *not* reveal an ugly Judenhass when tested, that person may just possibly be taking their first baby steps out of Islam.
A change of heart towards Jews and towards Israel seems to be one of the marks of the genuine apostate from Islam; sometimes it's one of the marks of impending apostasy (Magdi Cristiano Allam still identified himself as a Muslim when he wrote his book in praise of Israel, 'Viva Israele' - but it wasn't long after that, that he decided to ditch Islam altogether; Nonie Darwish exhibited a similar pattern; Ayaan Hirsi Ali had changed her attitude toward Jews, before she came right out and apostasised from Islam).
Those who can buck years of ferocious conditioning, and begin to question their inherited and Islamically inculcated hatred of Jews, are rare birds...but they do exist.
Islamophobia is the height of common sense!
It is how you deal with it that decides your future. If you behave like our truly Islamophobic politicians and cower down, introduce sharia at every level and deceive youself that Islam is a "religion" let alone a religion of peace, then you will lose your freedom.
Stand up to it and say "not in my town and country" and pressurise politicians, media and the rest, then you keep your freedom.