The Imam and the Rabbi: His Master’s Voice
Did you hear the one about the 70 Lefty rabbis who walked into a bar?…..
Here’s the punch line: “They all decided that safety lay in siding with the coming dominant political culture – Islam – and not by standing up for a fellow Jew, in this case, Charles Jacobs.”
Dr Jacobs has been sounding the alarm about political Islam for years, allying himself with MOC (Muslims of Conscience) like Ahmed Mansour and courageously exposing and combating Taqiyya, the Islamic doctrine of dissembling in order to advance the faith.
A particularly adept practitioner of this doctrine is one Abdullah Farooq, Imam at the ISB mosque in Roxbury, the center which David Gordis, one of the signers of the letter attacking Charles Jacobs, helped dedicate under the watchful eyes of the Muslim American Society, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Imam Farooq once let slip a remark that he would be delighted to see Israel “disappear”. As Solomonia has reported, Imam Farooq has also achieved notoriety by urging his followers to “grab the gun” in pursuing Jihad.
Moreover, representatives of the Saudi-funded mosque have stood by terrorists Aafia Siddiqi and Tarek Mehanna. Siddiqi was recently convicted of attempted murder of American soldiers and Mehanna was recently indicted in the plot to kill Americans at a shopping mall in Massachusetts.
Interfaith nonsense pervades the craven letter from the rabbis. Seeking to inaugurate a “different kind of politics”, the letter will simply reinforce the pathetic “dhimmi” role of sycophantic Jews. Rabbi Gordis, past President of the near-bankrupt Hebrew College in Newton, MA is fond of decrying Jewish “triumphalism.” If the supercessionist aims of political Islam are victorious, then Rabbi Gordis will certainly get his wish.
Most of the other delusional rabbis who signed the letter have no qualms at all in “othering” when it comes to their fellow Jews. “Settlers” and anyone else who criticizes their divinely-inspired notions of “social justice” are fair game for being labeled “the Other.”
One of the signers of the letter, I recall, was instrumental in inviting an Arab representative of Neve Shalom, the “Oasis of Peace” colony in Israel which distinguishes itself by – among other “anti-triumphalist” exercises – lowering the Israeli flag on Israel Independence Day. The representative, speaking at the Jewish school, told the students and parents that he aspired to be a suicide bomber! The venue, needless to say, was a Reform Jewish school.
Ironic indeed, is the letter’s twisting of the Shelach Lechah parsha into an attack against Dr. Jacobs for “spreading calumnies”. Of course, the Torah portion’s central theme is the delusional, paralyzing fear conveyed by the scouts who try to terrify their fellow Jews into giving up their quest for the promised land. The learned rabbis would be well advised to re-read the Torah portions dealing with Korach, Dathan and Aviram and the consequences of cowardice, delusion and treason.
Dr Jacobs has worked his entire life speaking truth to power by his pioneering work with the American Anti Slavery movement and now with Americans for Peace and Tolerance. The defamatory gibberish contained in the rabbis’ letter reflects a defeatism reminiscent of the unconscionable cowardice of much of American Jewish leadership during the Holocaust.