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Julia Gorin reports in Jewish World Review (thanks to Sparta) on some egregious Alabama dhimmitude. (News links in the original.)
Earlier this month, Rabbi Jonathan Miller of Birmingham's Temple Emanu-El hosted Bosnia's Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric to address an interfaith audience at his synagogue so that we Jews and Christians might "make room in our hearts and souls for others who believe differently from us," as his op-ed in The Birmingham News read. According to one attendee, the mufti packed a big house and the evening was replete with Martin Luther King tie-ins and civil rights-era imagery.The rabbi should have done some research first. Ceric recently called on the world to stand by Syria, a state that sponsors terrorism against Israel and U.S. forces in Iraq, among other targets. During the March, 2004 pogroms in Kosovo against Orthodox Christian Serbs by Albanian Muslims — in which 19 people were killed, dozens of churches and cemeteries destroyed, and close to 4,000 of Kosovo's minority Serbs displaced — BBC.com reported that Ceric "expressed concern about the rise of anti-Islamic hysteria in the West." He added that there was "no such thing as Islamic terrorism," and assured reporters that there were no charities linked to al-Qaeda operating in Bosnia.
In fact, a CNSNews.com article titled "Jihadists Find Convenient Base in Bosnia" reported that "terrorists who previously targeted the U.S. are now in Bosnia, where they have access to a 'one-stop shop' of jihad training camps, weapons and illegal Islamic 'charities' — all at the doorstep of Europe."
Read it all.
Posted by Robert at April 28, 2006 7:37 AM
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Robert: this is not "Alabama" dhimmitude. It's Jewish dhimmitude nearing its worst, that just happened to have been displayed in Alabama, and I say that as a secularized Jew with two Muslim friends, one "moderately observant" and the other a refugee who fled Khomeini's regime who is as fully secular as I am. It's disgusting that Rabbi Miller didn't look into who he was inviting into his temple, but not surprising. Some rabbis have egos so vast that they think they can walk on water. (Think the egregious Michael Lerner of Tikkun who would rather raise allegations "rightwing Israelis" of being behind a murderous attack on a leftist kibbutz without a scintilla of evidence to support the allegation than believe it was one of the usual jihaddist groups trying to scuttle any attempt to work out a real truce.
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at April 28, 2006 8:27 AM
"make room in our hearts and souls for others who believe differently from us..."
-- from the article above, quoting Rabbi Jonathan Miller
O God, we beseech ye, please spare us from this self-regarding holier-than-thou crap.
Posted by: Hugh at April 28, 2006 12:35 PM
Did I read this right??? We, Christians and Jews need to make room in OUR hearts for those of other religions.
We in America have always made room for other religions. We have muslims here. We just don't want them continuing to undermine our rights or blowing us up, and if they assimilate, we would find "room in our hearts". But it's awfully hard to love people who want to kill you.
I think he had brain fart when he said that. He should have said "muslims should make room in their hearts".
Posted by: freewoman at April 28, 2006 12:38 PM
Message from overseas:
"You´ve got to clean the U.S., this thing is bigger than we think!"
at April 28, 2006 12:58 PM
Ahh ... if a muslim only had a heart. Or a brain. Or the courage to break their bondage. Just follow the yellow brick road.
Posted by: JanuaryMan at April 28, 2006 12:58 PM
The learned Rabbi is apparently yet another useful idiot who only sees what he wishes to see. These Jihadists have promised to eradicate Isarael and drive its Jewish residents into the sea. Why would he not believe that they mean to do what they say they will do?
Posted by: MP at April 28, 2006 1:06 PM
In a letter to the editor, this same Rabbi once asked ME if I was an anti-semitic because I had criticized an aspect of Israeli foriegn POLICY in an article I wrote! Now he invites to Temple Emanu-el a mufti who would probably be happy to see Israel destroyed. Ah, the consistency of the liberal mind?
Posted by: Provoslavni at April 28, 2006 1:24 PM
The Bishop of Lyon/France has accused the French government of putting up hurdles and hindrances to Mohammedan infiltration.
This, he claims, is 'unchristian' behavior and should be rejected by the French people...
I saw it on TV earlier today (in Italy)
Sorry to say, I haven't been able to come up with a link yet. But it seems for everyone who sees the light there are 10 more a-soles like this guy who is an eager useful idiot for Eurabia...
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at April 28, 2006 3:30 PM
Oh, that Birmingham. Oh, that Jonathan Miller.
Posted by: Interested at April 28, 2006 6:03 PM
This is the Reform Temple, close to the conservative temple. Both were developed to house the great influx of 'German Jews' in the late 19nth century. Miller's Temple is quite a beautiful one. I've had the pleasure of being inside it, and, sadly, this news is no surprise with me. There is a saying that Reform Judaism is the Democrat party with holidays. Although, Miller's dhimmitude would, no doubt, be at home with W and company as well. It isn't shameful; it just shows how stupid people can be.
What pisses me off tonight? Why is it that Christians and Jews are falling over themsleves to host 'interfaith dialogue(s)'. Why is it that Bush tells us 'Islam means peace.' so does Karen Huges . . . with a little nudging from Esposito. Enough of this shit. I'm waiting for the Iman, for the Muslim, to protest against terror(without verbal gymnastics or sleight of tongue). I'm waiting for that Saudi holy man to issue a call for interfaith dialogue . . . right in Riyadh, with o ld and new testaments in tandem--and Kosher catering. Guess I won't hold my breath for that.
Posted by: biorabbi at April 28, 2006 9:58 PM
When people refer to these reformed temples as Jewish they are really stretching the notion. Judaism doesn't throw people out; but the sect of 'reformed' jews is mostly nominally jewish.
I'm not orthodox jewish but I know who the real rabbis, the real scholars, the real jews are, and they are amongst the relgious.
When they put on a Michael Lerner, of Tikkun as a rabbi, it's a joke.
He's no more a rabbi than the guy on the corner. He was a marxist from Berkeley who found a role playing a 'rabbi' and posing as a marxist do gooder and blaiming jews for jew hatred.
These descendents of the German jews of the 19th century are the same one's who announced they were just Germans of the hebraic'persuasion' and continue with the posing under the religious guse. These were the same 'reformed' jews who wouldn't allow a person to walk into their 'synogogue' wearing a Yamulka 30 yrs ago.
The religion of the reformed sat back and tried to please the new jew haters of the 19th century, blaming the religious for the hatred of those who despised them. And they went to the ovens with the same stupid disconnect that these fools display by bringing and buying into the kitman and taquiyya of Ceric the terrorist. What a joke.
And last week, Tim Russert had on that vapid Michael Lerner as a 'rabbi' on his show with other clerics. What a joke. He's no rabbi except as he self created. He's a jew hater essentially of the marxist variety, but he poses as one who condemns capitalist societies for not doing enough to bring out the love and justice from these 3rd world muslims.
Iccch....
Mark
Posted by: mgoldberg at April 30, 2006 9:01 AM
OK, I'm going to ask a picky question here. When this item describes Syria as a state that sponsors terrorism against Israel and U.S. forces in Iraq, how can terrorism ever be directed against military forces? Isn't part of the inherent nature and definition of terrorism that it is directed against civilians?
Posted by: robertebarnett at May 1, 2006 1:27 PM
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