Given the Leftist/Islamic alliance, this is not surprising. What would be surprising would be the 92nd Street Y hosting an opponent of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. But that would never happen.
“New York Jewish cultural center to host imam with anti-Israel background,” JNS, June 12, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
(June 12, 2020 / JNS) The prominent New York Jewish cultural center the 92nd Street Y, now known as 92Y, is scheduled to host a virtual event on June 18 featuring an imam who has defended the call for the State of Israel to be destroyed.
The event features Rabbi Peter Rubinstein of New York’s Central Synagogue, a Reform congregation, and Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Inc., in New York. They plan to discuss how society can move forward amid the hardship of “recent events,” though the event description doesn’t specifically mention such events, including the death of George Floyd, 46, who died on May 25 in the custody of Minneapolis police.
Abdur-Rashid visited the White House twice—in June and July 2010—during the Barack Obama administration, according to White House visitor logs. In 2006, he defended then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s call for Israel’s destruction.
While Abdur-Rashid acknowledged the Holocaust as “one of the great tragedies of humanity, along with slavery, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bosnia and Rwanda,” he said that Ahmadinejad’s call for Israel’s annihilation echoed a “sentiment born of the legitimate anger, frustration and bitterness that is felt in many parts of the Muslim world.”
Michael Copeland says
“Abdur-Rashid acknowledged the Holocaust as one of the great tragedies of humanity, along with slavery,….”
Slavery?
A “tragedy” for Abdur Rashid?
“Slavery should be celebrated as one of the virtues of Islam.”
Kuwaiti muslim cleric
https://barenakedislam.com/2017/12/24/kuwaiti-muslim-cleric-slavery-should-be-celebrated-as-one-of-the-virtues-of-islam/
gravenimage says
Good point, Michael. Muslims were behind the African slave trade, which both preceded slavery in the new world and has not ended to this day.
By the way, Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid heads the Mosque founded by Malcolm X.
revereridesagain says
You beat me to it, was just going to say who would be surprised at anything the 92nd St. Y does. Certainly not I, having observed the “woke” rabbis in the greater Boston area shut down the great speaker program at a local synagogue which hosted the likes of Geert Wilders. There is no easy way of educating those who insist that feeding the crocodiles is the road to peace, love and flying unicorns.
Is there anything non-Islamic that does NOT stir up “anger, frustration and bitterness” in the Muslim world?
James Lincoln says
revereridesagain says,
“Is there anything non-Islamic that does NOT stir up “anger, frustration and bitterness” in the Muslim world?”
NO…
jewdog says
This is a naive and pathetic attempt to be accepted and seem progressive, but it will not result in any meaningful reciprocity from the jihadist community. It simply make reform Jews look like the blinkered idiots they are.
gravenimage says
‘fraid so…
Westman says
Maybe they just want to see and hear the enemy as a point of reference for next week’s discussion of why it is important to support Israel? Keeping the enemy close? Oh well…
mortimer says
So there we have it: it is apparently ‘legitimate anger’ to call for the extermination of Israel.
After Abdur-Rashid takes over and ‘exterminates’ Israel, he will no doubt issue a posthumous pardon to Hitler and Adolf Eichmann.
gravenimage says
Yes–just fine so long as they are enraged over Jews living in freedom.
gravenimage says
NYC: Jewish cultural center to host imam who defended al-Qaeda medic and call for Israel’s destruction
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More suicidal insanity.