The CAIR leader was even allowed to ask for financial donations. My latest at PJ Media:
Rabbi Howard Jaffe of Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Massachusetts, recently illustrated how, all too often, efforts at “interfaith dialogue” are futile and self-defeating.
Jaffe staged an event entitled “Out of Many, One,” featuring Nadeem Mazen of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Stephanie Marzouk of the Muslim Justice League (MJL), and Samer Naseredden of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC).
CAIR is hardly a trustworthy partner for “dialogue.” It was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hezballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror.
CAIR’s cofounder and longtime chairman Omar Ahmad as well as its chief spokesman Ibrahim Hooper have made statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the United States. (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.
Rabbi Jaffe, not surprisingly, did not inform his congregation about any of this at his “Out of Many, One” event. Not only that, but he allowed two of the speakers to call for donations to CAIR and other Muslim organizations. Said one:
Go out and donate to any Muslim organization, ISBCC, CAIR, Jetpac, Muslim Justice League, come on, donate to us.
CAIR’s Mazen added:
My project this year is I have to raise a million dollars. Don’t send clothes, send money. I’m not afraid to say it anymore.
The Muslim speakers actively misled their audience. Marzouk defended Tarek Mehanna, a former member of the ISBCC who plotted a jihad massacre in the United States for al-Qaeda.
Mazen claimed:
Of course, 0% of Muslims are doing violence in the Greater Boston area. I would argue that 0% Muslims are doing violence in America at large.
Apparently he has forgotten about two other former members of the ISBCC, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who set off bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013 for Allah and Islam. Or Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the San Bernardino jihad murderers; Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood jihad murderer; Sayfullo Saipov, who recently murdered eight people in New York City for the Islamic State; and so many other jihad terrorists in America at large.
Mazen wasn’t through deceiving the audience. He also said:
[I]t turns out that CAIR isn’t Muslim Brotherhood … I mean the Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t really exist in this country. There’s no political Islam.
In reality, most major Muslim organizations in the U.S. including CAIR, have extensive links to the Brotherhood.
A genuine and worthwhile interfaith dialogue event would have featured Jaffe asking Mazen, Marzouk, and Naseredden what they were doing to combat among Muslims the literal understanding of the anti-Semitic texts of the Qur’an.
The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims: Jews 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).
As for how the Qur’an wants Muslims to treat Jews: Jews are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29)….
Read the rest here.
Stan Lee says
This guy is a “Reformed” Kamikaze Rabbi, with a congregation in the midst of Massachusetts, a very “blue” state full of Democrat-Socialists.
Frank Anderson says
Stan, whenever the “ed” is added to Reform, it is an error. Reform Judaism starting in the early 1800’s to examine and consider all teachings to see which have become out-of-date, contradictory or just plainly in error. The official title of the movement has been Reform without the “ed” because the process is in theory incomplete: “Ask every question repeatedly; because each time the question is asked the truth comes back clearer and brighter. The whole truth will be known only when we face God.” Paraphrasing the Doubter’s Meditation, page 711, Gates of Prayer in use in the early 1990’s.
The dominant majority of the Jewish congregations in the US whether in “blue” or “red” states, follow the example of this Rabbi, well-earning the title given by the minority of Jews who disagree as Suicidal Liberal Jews. According to one survey I read some time ago, 75% of all US Jews vote straight Democrat. Please, if you wish to make better posts, drop the “ed” because it weakens your proposal and calls into question your knowledge.
John Forbes says
THIS IS REALLY ASTOUNDING! THIS RABBI MUST BE – ONE OF THOSE WHO HAS NOT BOTHERED TO READ THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AGENDA FOR THE US OR READ THE PUBLISHED HATRED OF DEMOCRACY OR LISTENED TO THE DELIGHTFUL LINDA SARSOUR – WHO STATED THAT SHE IS NOT IN THE US TO INTEGRATE BUT TO STRIVE TO IMPOSE SHARIA ON THE US!
mortimer says
Former sheikh, Sam Solomon wrote about the reason why inviting Muslims to teach dirty kafirs about Islam is not going to provide them with accurate information about Islam. The reason is that TAQIYYA is used by Muslims to disguise, conceal and dissimulate about the ESSENTIAL, COMPULSORY JIHAD DOCTRINE.
Sam Solomon wrote: “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…”
So how is Rabbi Howard Jaffe to bring accurate information to his Temple Isaiah in Lexington? It will definitely not come from CAIR, since they have proven repeatedly in the past to use taqiyya routinely. Unless someone is on hand with a thorough knowledge of Islam who can expose the taqiyya, practically no one at Temple Isaiah will know that that they are being deceived by professional deceivers from CAIR.
Keys says
Rabbi Jaffe needs a wake-up call.
No doubt visiting Islamic cleric from Pakistan, Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi, who spoke at a conference on Islam in Virginia (JW post of today at 12:01) can provide it, if only Rabbi Jaffi invites him for dialogue.
Ludhianvi said this about “America, the land of infidels” just this Saturday Sabbath:
“They are ignorant and there is no need for dialogue with them, God has given them two options, one is the holy book and one is the stick [Force] and if one does not accept the holy book they have to be forced”
Put that in your shofar and blow it, Rabbi Jaffe !
mortimer says
Keys, Rabbi Jaffe is likely so pleased with his own virtue-signalling, that he would discount all the discouraging truths spoken by Ludhianvi as ‘extremism’ or some such excuse.
Sadly, smug virtue-signallers like Rabbi Jaffe do not need any facts or scriptural support for their spontaneous, unread, unstudied opinions. They redouble their emotional effort to block out facts.
Even sadder, it seems to take a personal betrayal or even Islamic terrorism close to home (may God forbid!) for such kum-by-ya singers to WAKE UP and see that JIHAD TERROR is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
Frank Anderson says
I have seen 2 Rabbi’s, 1 Reform and 1 Conservative, and a number of others go ballistic when any discussion of the truth was attempted. To my sadness, and certainly not my anger. I pray for God to give them light before it is too late.
JawsV says
This Rabbi’s an absolute moron.
mortimer says
Rabbi Jaffe closed his mind to facts. He maintains a fantasy of a nice Islam.
Rabbi Jaffe may even exclude what Maimonides (Rambam, “ha Nesher ha Gadol”, the great eagle of Jewish doctrine) said about Islam:
“…God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael [Muslims], who PERSECUTED US SEVERELY, and who devise ways to HARM us and to DEBASE us…. No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in DEBASING and HUMILIATING us. None has been able to REDUCE us as they have…. We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, their absurdities, which are BEYOND HUMAN POWER TO BEAR…. We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and absurdities of Ishmael…. In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their wickedness and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to conciliate them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us…”
JawsV says
Thanks for that info. It’s still true.
Lydia says
A NOTE ABOUT THE LEFT VERSUS RIGHT “WAR”:
This is an area that has been an issue all my life, the whole “right” versus “left” thing.
When I was a kid and knew nothing of politics, all I noticed around me when I met adults and heard things, was that the ‘right’ was ‘Republican,’ and the ‘left’ was ‘Democrat.’ What that meant, I later discovered that those who called themselves ‘Republican,’ or other forms of ‘the right wing,’ usually had some amount of wealth, looked down on those who did not (like us), and were ‘conservative,’ whatever that meant. I also learned that most who associated as ‘Democrats’ were in favor of worker’s rights and human ‘rights’ which came in various assortments and even conflicts of interest between ideas, and that most were ‘working class’ people. I was later to learn that ‘progressives’ were usually in ‘the left,’ and that they favored raising the standard of living for all people, and that ‘conservatives’ were against abortion and things like that. I realized that I agreed with both of those things. There were also things on both sides that I did not agree with. Later I had the opportunity to travel in Europe and see how people live over there. I had heard many things about the economy and society over there that were very good, such as longer paid vacations, maternity leave, sick leave, job security, more rights for workers and help for the poor and since I know my Bible, I know that all of this is good according to the Lord. (see: Bible.) Of course it must be ‘sustainable,’ but that’s just it, in Europe it is! I even worked there had had full health coverage for a simple job, paid vacation, and I know these things are true. But then I hear folks over here in the US complain in such a derogatory way about ‘socialized medicine,’ and things like that. When it is them in the situation between life and death, and that is their only way out, then their minds change. I saw how the whole world is under the curse from the garden of Eden, the predatory practices of greed at work which we see in the economy on a daily basis, as they simply say ‘survival of the fittest,’ and other things depicting this savage, uncivilized, and beastly state of predation. Of course the errors I saw on the ‘left’ were a head first dive into sin which included abortion, gay marriage and that agenda, sexual immorality, and a general depraved lifestyle of rebellion. Of course I was and am against all of that. And so it remains today. Thus it simply depends on the issue. Yes, I am 100% anti abortion and against gay marriage and so on. And I am also in favor of socialized economic practices that benefit everyone, not just those with the ‘upper hand.’ I know that if we live right, we benefit. But not all are in a position to do that. Those who are disabled, veterans, the elderly, abused kids with issues, the list goes on. When I see that hard working citizens who are retired and receive ‘social security,’ and can’t even make ends meet, and are even homeless, I know that something is wrong. Someone did do wrong. But… it wasn’t these senior citizens! It is those who regulate the rates of the economy and the safety nets! The Word of God has much thunder to call down on those who oppress the helpless poor!
On that note I wish that some people in the comment sections would cease from uncivilized calls of violence against any ‘political parties.’ That makes it as bad as jihad in a political sense. We are totally capable of doing battle against islam in a purely intellectual sense without addressing such parties in politics in a sweeping generalization. There are ‘Republicans’ who are muslims, and there are ‘Democrats’ who are fighting against islamic jjihad. I don’t want to see this forum turned into a war between the right and the left either. As a Christian I know I am called to love my enemies. That does not mean ‘agree’ with them, or ‘give them leverage,’ or anything like that, of course not. There is a time for non-retaliation and also for self-defense. But what we do comes from a heart motivated by love, even when fighting for what is right and true. The Bible says it’s God’s love and kindness that leads people to repentance and as Christians (those of us who are), that should be our approach as well. We can’t conquer hate with hate, but only with love. (See: Sermon on the Mount, New Testament).
God bless you,
Love, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Lydia says
P.S. On another note of clarification, ‘Socialism’ is not the same thing as ‘Communism.’ And on top of that, you can have a ‘socialized’ state that is Christian, neutral, atheist, or something else because ‘socialism’ is only referring to the economical framework, not ideological. And when it comes to the issue of tyranny, the same is true. You can have a Right-Wing tyranny or a Left-Wing tyranny. The concept of dictatorship is separate from right and left wing politics, fascism, economics, and ideologies (other than the fact that a Christian leadership would not impose tyranny and still remain Christian, etc.) Now I have heard that the nazi regime was actually right wing, but in other ways it seemed left wing so I’m not sure on that one. But it is important as so many throw terms and definitions around that they do not truly understand, leading to further confusion and needless conflict.
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Frank Anderson says
Lydia, I believe if you take a look at Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg you will find the origin of “left”/”right” labels is Joseph Stalin. You might also see the Goldberg presentation on that question in Glenn Beck’s Foxnews special “Live Free or Die”. To this day Joseph Stalin dominates what passes for political discourse through that misleading label. BTW if you compare the body count, Stalin killed between 2 and 3 times the number of human beings as Hitler-What a great role model to follow?
gravenimage says
I’m afraid your idea that all Republicans are rich and look down on poor people is entirely mistaken. Most Republicans I know are working class.
And if you believe that letting in hordes of violent Muslims will improve anyone’s lives but their own, then you are even more off base.
isntlam says
Deafening silence from other Rabbis.
jewdog says
Say, isn’t that Rabbi Shmageggy of the Beth Meshuggah synagogue? I thought so. That’s the one with the congregation from Chelm. Many amusing stories have been written about them.
gravenimage says
BHrillian! 🙂
Tim says
Rabbi Howard Jaffe should be charged with fraternizing with the enemy and treason.
gravenimage says
I think he’s more of a clueless idiot than an intentional traitor. That doesn’t make him any less dangerous, though.
Marilyn Griffin says
It is beyond all reason that Jewish people and organizations would have anything to do with muslims/Islam, much less giving them support. Don’t these people realize that Islamic see them as their enemy and want to destroy all of them??? Amazing!!
tgusa says
If there is only one factor in the impossible association between muslims and western males it is the relationship between and treatment of females.There is no getting around that. End of story. Anything and everything else is gravy.
This person is a buffoon albeit a dangerous one.
gravenimage says
Most Westerners defend Islam because they want to believe it is benign–not because they want to rape women and use them as sex slaves. Besides, many Western women are just as clueless.
ronyvo says
In my opinion, people like this rabbi are more dangerous than the Muslim criminal jihadis.
Rusty Smith says
With fools like this Rabbi leading them, it will be no wonder if there is not another modern day Holocaust in the making. Idiots blindly trying to be politically correct at the cost of the lives of the people that they should be protecting.
Frank Anderson says
It has happened before in Germany, and is shaping up to happen again worldwide, not only to Jews but to the majority of all who are alive, including other muslims who don’t meet the executioners’ standard. Half of Germany’s Jews ignored Hitler’s writings, speeches and violence. Einstein’s description of insanity: “Doing the same thing and expecting a different result.”
Yitz says
Why is everyone calling him “rabbi”. Reform is not real judaism. It is a different religion. He is totally ignorant of the torah. He associates with killers of his fellow jews .why does he want to donate money to islamists.let him donate to many jews who are desperate.(there are poor jews ).
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Massachusetts Rabbi Invites Hamas-Linked CAIR, Others to Mislead His Congregation
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This kind of willful ignorance is suicidal.
Roland says
Rabbi Jaffe and his supporters are hopelessly smug and ignorant. They assume that their world will remain safe and comfortable and that their enemies can be appeased.
LR says
I don’t get it. He must know what the Quran says about the Jews, and how Jews are treated in Muslim dominated countries. So, what the heck is he fooling around with CAIR for?
Frank Anderson says
If he went to the same rabbinical school as a Rabbi I know, he was told by a muslim teacher that all the bad things about islam that he hears are not true. He never looked for himself. And he certainly avoids paying any attention to current events that disturb his delusion, “the religion of peace!”