Moral myopia of catastrophic proportions. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
“Lexington Massachusetts Rabbi Colludes with Hamas Front Group,” by Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov, Times of Israel, November 17, 2017 (thanks to Chuck):
Why would a rabbi help raise money for a Hamas front group?
On July 25, 2017, his temple jam packed with 250 congregants and guests Rabbi Howard Jaffe of Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Massachusetts presented three local Muslim leaders as wonderful people and friends of the Jewish community. The program, titled “Out of Many, One,” was billed as an interfaith bridge-building event.
But video of the gathering as well as printed hand-outs (materials) show that what happened in Lexington was something quite different: it was an effort by Muslim radicals, posing as moderates, to enlist Jews in a campaign against U.S. government counterterrorism efforts.
Even more problematic, at the close of the event, the audience was asked to donate money to support CAIR – the Council on American Islamic Relations, which has been identified by the FBI and others as a front group for Hamas. Hamas’s charter calls for the murder of every Jew on the planet.
The rabbi’s Muslim guests were Nadeem Mazen, a New England director of CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, Stephanie Marzouk, the founder of the Muslim Justice League (MJL), and Samer Naseredden, the director of youth programming at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) – New England’s largest mosque.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the FBI, “CAIR and its founders were part of a group set up by the Muslim Brotherhood to support Hamas.” In 2009, a federal district judge ruled that prosecutors have established “at least a prima facie case as to CAIR’s involvement in a conspiracy to support Hamas.” Since then, CAIR has been inciting American Muslims against the U.S. government’s counterterrorism efforts, and the ISBCC and MJL have recently joined its cause.
The rabbi presented his guests as people who are allied with the progressive values of his congregation. In fact, however, Naseredden’s Islamic Society of Boston mosque has a youth training curriculum which can only serve to radicalize the historically moderate Boston Muslim community. Indeed, before it was exposed, the mosque had on its website instructions on how Muslim men should beat their wives. The ISBCC and its sister mosque in Cambridge, where Nadeem Mazen is a prominent member, have been home to at least thirteen convicted, killed, or fugitive terrorists, including the Boston Marathon bombers.
Many of these terrorists are still considered heroes by a significant fraction of the ISBCC’s membership. A few years ago, the ISBCC held a pep rally in support of almost two dozen convicted terrorists from around the country. During the rally, an ISBCC imam called America “the land of the coward, the home of the slave” and threatened that “this nation, by God, will be brought to its knees.”
After the Boston Marathon bombing, President Obama’s Justice Department initiated a program called “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) to deal with American-based terrorism. New England’s ADL became an integral part of this effort. Its executive director, Robert Trestan, insists that CVE is vital to Jewish safety, telling Boston’s Jewish Journal: “Islamic extremists are trying to recruit people for violence, particularly violence against Jews. We can’t afford to waste time discussing any longer. We need to take action to prevent them from recruiting vulnerable people in our community.”
Yet, Rabbi Jaffe’s second guest, Ms. Marzouk, told the congregation that she founded the Muslim Justice League to fight against the very CVE effort that ADL considers vital to the safety of New England’s Jews.
Marzouk argued that American Muslims should refuse to give aid to law enforcement officials investigating Islamist terror plots against their fellow Americans. She handed out flyers citing the case of Tarek Mehanna, an ISBCC member and hero among the Massachusetts Islamist community, whom she portrayed as a good fellow unfairly prosecuted and stripped of his liberties by the Obama administration’s anti-Muslim witch-hunt.
What Ms. Marzouk’s fliers didn’t mention was that Mehanna had pledged his loyalty to Al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner of the Islamic State, and that he had plotted a machine gun massacre at a Massachusetts shopping mall. According to the Department of Justice, “Mehanna and his coconspirators, who shared videos of the deaths of American servicemen, seemed to delight in the most horrific atrocities.” (The videos included American soldiers having their rib cages ripped open and set on fire with gasoline. “[N]ice juicy BBQ,” Mehanna gloated. “Texas BBQ is the way to go. . . . I want more BBQ sauce videos.”)
None of this was presented to the congregation, but much of it was known by Rabbi Jaffe – because we had previously shared it with him.
Another of the rabbi’s guests, CAIR director Nadeem Mazen, complained to the gathered Jews that New York cops embedded informants within MIT’s Muslim Students Association when he was its president. But Mazen did not disclose any of the obvious reasons for them to do so: During the time Mazen attended MIT, for example, his spiritual leader, MIT Muslim chaplain Suheil Laher, happened to run Al Qaeda’s main fundraising base in the United States and was linked by the FBI to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The MIT Muslim chaplain openly called for jihad against non-Muslims on his MIT website, and under his influence, another MIT graduate became Al Qaeda’s most notorious female leader, at one point being the most wanted and dangerous woman in the world. Boston’s Islamist leaders consider her, “Lady Al Qaeda,” a hero.
The three honored guests seemed to count on the ignorance of Temple Isaiah’s Jews. Mazen unleashed a string of howlers: “Of course, 0% of Muslims are doing violence in the Greater Boston area,” he insisted. “I would argue that 0% Muslims are doing violence in America at large.” According to Mazen, “it turns out that CAIR isn’t Muslim Brotherhood.” “I mean the Muslim brotherhood doesn’t really exist in this country,” Mazen told the congregation. “There’s no political Islam,” he said. All this in the face of significant amount of federal trial evidence and academic research.
Mazen then blasted Israel and the US. He suggested that the congregation should “engage in difficult conversations” about the supposed “maleficence” of both Israel and the United States, whose governments “often subvert[] the will of the people and the natural democracy that it is owed.”
As the program came to a close, the Islamists asked the Lexington Jews for money. “My project this year is I have to raise a million dollars,” Mazen announced. “Don’t send clothes, send money. I’m not afraid to say it anymore.” “Go out and donate to any Muslim organization, ISBCC, CAIR, Jetpac, Muslim Justice League, come on, donate to us,” urged Marzouk.
It seems inconceivable that a Jewish leader would help raise money for organizations connected to terrorism. What would induce the well-intentioned Rabbi Jaffe to do this? Discussions are yielding somewhat differing opinions:
First, it could be political/social pressure. “Jews are like everyone else,” the saying goes, “only more so.” If America is torn by the politics of the day, the Jews are torn more so. Muslims who pretend to be moderate can come to Jews with a tempting proposition: “Trump hates you Jews – he’s got Bannon and the Alt-right. And he hates us with his Muslim ban. So we victim peoples need to band together against this new fascism.”
Many American Jews, feeling rejected on campus and elsewhere by forces on the left for being Zionists, want to cling to their liberal/progressive homes. They can be easily blinded.
On the other hand, some contend that the rabbi is not blinded, and despite his denials, actually knows who these people are, but chooses to act in a way he believes is in the best interest of the Jewish community. Perhaps he believes that, given that Islamist extremists are here and control a growing Muslim population, we must engage them with the hope of influencing, not so much the extremist leaders, but the larger, more moderate Muslim community. Projecting communal goodwill, and demonstrating how wonderful and generous the Jewish community is can only help in this view.
Another view, less kind, is that the rabbi suffers from moral narcissism. Because of an overpowering need to be seen as a morally superior person, he engages in activities that provide him such public recognition – regardless of the consequences. In his progressive milieu, prioritizing the interests of “the other” over the “parochial” interests of the Jews functions as an act of “virtue signaling.”
This view of the rabbi’s actions fits with the morally-inverted social justice priorities of his synagogue, where non-Jewish causes take precedence. Embracing “the other,” even Hamas-affiliated Islamists, seems a more important, and a more virtuous act to Rabbi Jaffe than concern about the plight of the Jews in Europe or the intimidation of Jewish students on campus.
The third view is the simplest, and also the unkindest: Perhaps Rabbi Jaffe is merely a confused and foolish person whose ignorance on a topic is so great that he does not recognize when he is making a foolish mistake. “The fool doth think he is wise,” as Shakespeare wrote. In modern social psychology, this is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. In East European Jewish folklore, it was cautioned against in the Yiddish stories of the “Wise Men of Chelm” (an imaginary city of fools).
Whatever the explanation, it is clear that the ISBCC and CAIR are enlisting an army of delusional, narcissistic but also well-intentioned Jewish rabbis who are unwittingly willing to support organizations and policies that harm the Jewish community, but which provide these rabbis with ‘social justice’ accolades. Boston’s Islamists are planning more “Out of Many, One” events with other rabbis – Temple Beth Zion in Brookline, Massachusetts is next. Rabbi Jaffe was one of their first recruits. He won’t be their last.
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Frank Dunford says
Damn! This article is a mish mash of information. I’m all for laying down the ground work but seriously, this story went well into overkill. On the other hand, Wtf makes a rabbi so dim that he would actually think CAIR in any way deserves funding? That’s like paying the gas bill at Auschwitz.
WPM says
This would be the same kind of Rabbi that in America in the 1930s give support for the German American Bunds? The Bunds were very popular in Americas North East especial in New York and New Jersey . My family is from that area and my mom in here 90s remembers them well from her childhood in New York City.
Johnty Dee says
The German American Bund was a Nazi organization of German expatriates. They no more would allow Jews into it (if they even wanted entry) than Hitler would allow Jews to breath the same air. The Jewish leaders of NY asked Meyer Lansky to do something about their NY meetings. Lansky and about a dozen other Jews went in with baseball bats and disbanded a meeting of literally thousands of this garbage holding meetings in NYC. The German American Bund was a Gentile organization of so called ex-Germans and Americans of German ethnicity.
You’re obviously an idiot to even write that sort of garbage or a propagandist that thinks we are stupid enough to swallow that crap.
WPM says
Yes good Rabbi send money to a people that want you dead and gone ! How insane he is, as bad as Pope Francis ! Both fools who open the fences gates to let the wolves of Islam in to attack their flocks. Wolves will do as wolves will do because they are wolves..
DBM echo says
“Whatever the explanation, it is clear that the ISBCC and CAIR are enlisting an army of delusional, narcissistic but also well-intentioned Jewish rabbis who are unwittingly willing to support organizations and policies that harm the Jewish community.”
Well, there’s one Jewish rabbi in the Boston area who’s not fooled, Jonathan Hausman, an American Conservative rabbi. of Congregation Ahavath Torah, Stoughton, Massachusetts.
Yohanan says
Yes, that’s relief of Rabbi Hausman. In contrast to the Lexington reform temple’s promotion of CAIR — wiki on the Stoughton synagogue reports, “The synagogue has hosted many notable guest speakers, including Geert Wilders, Wafa Sultan, and Dr. Mordechai Kedar,” As we who follow JW site know, all three speakers are clear speaking leaders in informing about jihad.
Rabbi Howard Jaffe’s interfaith social justice is devoid of knowledge, sense, minimal awareness. Such diaspora kowtowing to the Islamic CAIR turns a blind eye to the Islamic doctrine and terrorist supremacism and will not curry safety…
revereridesagain says
“Rabbi Jon” Hausman is a hero’s hero (as is Charles Jacobs). It’s been my privilege to hear many of those excellent speakers at Ahavath Torah, including Robert Spencer. Still, he is under constant fire from other, crocodile-feeding rabbis in the area, probably including Rabbi Jaffe, who along with others of his ilk are giving me a hair-raising, heartrending lesson in how the Holocaust was allowed to take place.
I live in the Greater Boston area, and there are many of us who are well and truly “woke” to the civilizational threat that is Islam. In addition to Robert Spencer’s excellent work, Rabbi Jaffe needs to avail himself of Stephen Coughlin’s “Red Pill Brief” videos (and his absolutely essential book “Catastrophic Failure”), with specific attention to the meaning of “interfaith dialogue” and “bridge-building” in the Muslim Brotherhood’s master plan. It’s not easy to learn that you have been “had”, but you owe it to yourself, sir, and your congregation to get your head out of your nether regions and start acknowledging and respecting the truth.
carol says
Islamist Watch on Nov. 17 had an article about how the Middle East Forum has uncovered evidence of extreme anti-semitism ” among faculty members and guest speakers appointed by the Islamic Society of Boston to teach and promote its latest project: the Boston Islamic Seminary (BIS).
http://www.islamist-watch.org/27768/the-boston-islamic-seminary-is-training-the-next?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=3c6c5bfd3f-westrop_iw_2017_11_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-3c6c5bfd3f-34002701&goal=0_086cfd423c-3c6c5bfd3f-34002701
IQ al Rassooli says
Rabbis such as this total imbecile is not a ‘lone idiot’. There are hundreds of such inordinately self destructive imbeciles believing they are being moral and just.
Pope Francis is of the same CULT of Morons who deliberately misleads his flock to self destruct vis a vis the onslaught of Muslims against Christians and Jews all over the globe
Such creatures should be publicly challenged, humiliated and thrown out of office
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
There is nothing wrong with cordial relationships with Jews who have no evil tendencies like Zionists. The Quranic verses are not talking about evil Jews as race, but about bad behaviors of some of them
Diane Harvey says
Any other fairy tales to tell us?
WPM says
Ibrahim itace muhammed
Nothing wrong with a cordial relationship with Jews who have no evil tendencies like Zionist;
Translation: As long as the Jews pay the Jizya to our groups be good dimmis not make any noise when we kill the Jews and Christians outside of your congregation we will leave you along for “now”.
The Quranic verses are not talking about evil Jews as a race , but about bad behavior of some of them
Translation: The Jews who do not openly support are terror groups, who refuse to paid the Jizya ,who fight back when other Jews and Christians outside of their congregation overseas are attacked and slaughter will face Al WALAA WA Al BARRAA
Koran 8:12 Then your Lord spoke to His angels and said” I will be with you. Give strength to the believers. I will send terror into the Kafirs hearts , cut off their heads and even the tips of their fingers!”
Johnty Dee says
Save your taqiyya for somewhere else.
revereridesagain says
There is nothing wrong with cordial relationships with Muslims who have rejected the violent teachings of the Koran and the irrational tyranny of Shariah Law. In other words, apostates. The rest should be approached with a metaphorical whip and a chair, unless they are bent on jihad, in which case drop the “metaphorical”.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
The attitude of this reasonable Jewish Rabbi has confirmed the exception contained in the Quran that there are some Jews who are righteous. The Hadith referred to such righteous people like Abdullah bn Abdussalam and his followers among Jews Who remained faithful to the treaty of peace they signed. Note:whereever Jews are referred to as people of evils, it is not about Jews as a race but about those with evil tendencies like Zionists.
Johnty Dee says
A Jew that is not a Zionist is not a Jew you fool. Zionists have more right to be where they are than you do to be where you are. Muslims know nothing of reason and are incapable of it. That is why apart from oil the only other thing muslim countries export are illiterate muslims.
WPM says
Koran 9:29
Make war on those who have received the Scriptures {Jew and Christian} but do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day. They do Not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden.. The Christians and Jews do not follow the religion of truth until they submit and pay the poll tax{jizya} and they are humiliated .
Translation : pay the extortion keep your head down be quiet and we might let you live.
Mark A says
“The rabbi presented his guests as people who are allied with the progressive values of his congregation….”
There are none so blind as those who want to be. This rabbi is delusional if he considers these people “allies.”
The Rabbi should read Sura 9:29 to see what these “allies” have in store for him and for his congregation.
WPM says
Koran 9:29 but you get it
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Polezni durak.
Ashley says
What. The. Fuck?
https://www.templeisaiah.net/welcoming-the-stranger-refugee-support.html
And here I am heading to Lexington for Thanksgiving…
mortimer says
Rabbi Howard Jaffe no doubt is a well-mannered man who is almost totally UNREAD and UNSTUDIED in the ESSENTIAL, COMPULSORY DOCTRINES of Islam, such as HATRED OF KAFIRS (al Walaa wal Baraa) and JIHAD (bigoted warfare against disbelievers).
What, Rabbi? Do you think the jihadists will make an exception for YOUR family when they start shooting Jews as they did in many places around the world?
Why would the terrorists spare YOUR Jewish family and not spare other Jewish families? The answer is THE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS WOULD NOT SPARE THEM.
jewdog says
You dangle the worm of alleged persecution in front of some Jews and they will bite every time. I take my yarmulke off to those Islamists for their cleverness and subtlety. Nice catch, guys!
Personally, I go to Chabad – they are less naïve. This Rabbi must be a member of that interfaith group to help Muslims, the Jewish Endeavor to Rally Kafirs, or JERK.
By the way, I know that area of Massachusetts – it’s moonbat central. Glad I left.
WPM says
To Jewdog
Many Roman Catholic Priest are no different ,I am from New York City and at a WTC event on Staten Island had to listen to a well connected Monsignor give a speech how all three faiths Jewism , Christianity ,and Islam are all interconnected to same loving God he even quoted one of the early {Mecca} passages from that book of hate the Koran. I thought my head was going to explode , had to walk out of the event .As members of the Middle Eastern Christians are being slaughter by the day, cultures erased ,the angry hordes of “refugees” bring their rape culture and terror to Europe all in the name of Allah and according to what is written in the Koran .Pope Francis is leading and pushing his flock to play nice with the wolves ,it will not work has not worked in 1400 years ,wolves remain wolves that is their nature.
jewdog says
I understand. The Judeo-Christian system of ethics is great for internal cohesion, but is often too nice to adequately launch a cultural defense.
WPM says
If the Moslem want to convert to something else they could to save their souls maybe. Anything is better then Islam ,Islam you worship a hateful , unforgiven ,slave master , god . A God that promises a whorehouse in the sky if you murder, women, children ,innocent families in his name. That is not the G-d of the Christians and Jews ,that I am sure of as I live and breath .G-d bless you Jewdog and all your tribes.
Robert_k says
Rabbi Howard L. Jaffe was ordained by the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in 1983, and has been the Senior Rabbi of Temple Isaiah of Lexington since August of 2000. Previously, he was the rabbi of Temple Har Shalom in Warren, New Jersey, and Associate Rabbi of Temple Israel, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
As a Reform Rabbi he is probably not knowledgeable about Judaism his own faith as well as Islam.
martin ingall says
Oy vey. The libtardiness of his libtardhood is maximally libtardly. What a shit stain. I grew up in the Boston area. Temple Isaiah was a pleasant suburban reform synagogue, probably with a membership of mostly Democrat voters, yet virtually all sane, level headed, grounded. An event like was inconceivable. Liberalism is a communicable disease of self-immolation. As reform synagogues continue to lose their laity and collapse demographically, their libtard rabbis and leadership will wade into weirder and deeper and ever more strange places.
revereridesagain says
martin ingall, oy vey indeed! I grew up in Chelsea. Everyone I knew from there who is dead is now spinning in their grave. Back in the 60s if anyone had told me I would see this resurgence of anti-semitism, and with the encouragement of rabbis at that, I’d have thought they were a few bong hits over the line. It is sobering and appalling to witness what havoc the combination of the Marxist Left and Islam can cause.
Martin Ingall says
I here you brutha!
butros says
Only an idiot supports those seeking to murder his children…. any Jews defending and supporting muslims is responsible for the murder of his own children…. this rabbi is an idiot.
butros says
this dumb rabbi sucker is no match for muslim taqiyya…. he wants to buy the Brooklyn bridge.
Yitz says
Please dont associate reform jews with real judaism. They do not share the same fundamental beliefs of the torah. Thereby making reform a separate religion.that new religion is basicly left liberalism and that gets him friendly with jew haters of islam. If ibraham likes this “rabbi” that speaks for itself.
martin says
It’s like a jew standing up at the neuremberg trials in support of the guards at auswitchz
Yohanan says
On Dec 11, 2017, Robert Spencer followed this post up with an excellent video –
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/12/robert-spencer-video-cairs-rabbi-and-the-perils-of-interfaith-dialogue