Chelm on the Charles River
by Jerry Gordon (August 2009)
published by the Boston Phoenix. The information made public probably convinced leaders of the main Jewish communal organizations, Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) and the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) not to show up for the ISBCC official dedication. Those progressive Jews who came to the ISBCC program were useful fools. They were abetting the agenda of Muslim Brotherhood front the Muslim American Society (MAS), which backs the ISBCC, to subjugate and otherwise turn into dhimmis, their own coreligionists.
Jacobs and Hale noted at the conclusion of the Boston Globe report on the ISBCC event:
author Sandra Fenichel Asher introduces us to these foolish Jews:
Legend has it that when the earth was created and the time came to fill it with people, two angels were chosen to deposit wise and foolish souls evenly over the land. But one angel tripped on a mountain peak and the entire sack of foolish souls emptied out over one spot, a tiny town in Poland called Chelm.
Given what transpired in Boston at the ISBCC dedication, it would appear that the angels dropped some foolish Jews on the banks of the Charles River that divides the Cities of Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts.
This article will attempt to reveal the foolishness of these progressive Jews as an illustration of what occurs when you align yourselves with your enemies.
The Foolish Jews comments about the ISBCC
The Boston Globe report on the controversial ISBCC dedication sets the scene for this drama of foolish Jews on the banks of the Charles River.
Later, at the ribbon cutting, Globe writer Michael Paulsen, ran into
We noted in an Iconoclast post what Rabbi Seltzer said in a New England Cable News interview:
Among the contingent of interfaith representatives at the ISBCC was Rabbi Sanford Seltzer, Associate Dean for Rabbinic Community Relations of the Rabbinical School at
Our understanding is that Jacobs has challenged Seltzer to sit down and review the evidence about the radical Mosque and its hate mongering Imams and trustees. We await word should that occur.
Another foolish Jew is
So, are the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and the Muslim American Society-Boston truly dominated by Islamist extremists, and hence properly boycotted by Jewish – and other – groups?
My personal experience suggests they are not. As an officer and representative of a Jewish communal organization, I have encountered only graciousness, sincerity, and warmth in my dealings with leaders of both organizations. I have also observed these leaders demonstrate the same attitudes toward rabbis and lay leaders of an array of Jewish organizations.
Consider two public statements crafted collaboratively with ISBCC and MAS-Boston leaders. The first, “Building a Community of Trust,’’ was rolled out in 2007 at every mosque in Greater Boston on the first day of Ramadan, and at synagogues on Rosh Hashana. Announcing the stated goal of replacing distrust and misunderstanding with respectful communication, the Muslim and Jewish signers decried all forms of terrorism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Muslim prejudice. The signers – imams, rabbis, and Jewish and Muslim community leaders and members – embraced a Greater Boston in which diversity is respected, and pledged to foster efforts to decrease divisions between our communities.
Here’s another Solomonia bon mot about Felsen, the alleged Cambridge anti-Zionist peacenik in a post about the Palestinian Dance troupe Al Rowward:
One of the performances this time is being sponsored by the
The Boston Globe op ed by Drs. Jacobs and Hale,
Some milestone! The city has helped the Wahhabi clerical establishment – purveyors of the most intolerant religious teachings on the planet – and the Muslim Brotherhood – genesis of all Sunni terrorist organizations – set up shop in the Cradle of Liberty, flying a false flag of moderation. And to make matters worse, this sad milestone is praised as a great victory for diversity and a boon to local Muslims.
The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center offers courses from the Islamic American University, whose vice chairman is Jamal Badawi, a trustee of the center, and headed by Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a hate-mongering preacher from the Gulf who has been banned from Egypt and the United States.
ISB records show that the organization has both received money from and donated money to organizations that were later investigated or shut down for terrorist activities. Among the recipients of ISB largesse are the Benevolence International Foundation – an Al Qaeda charity – and the recently convicted Holy Land Foundation – a Hamas charity.
These are the people who will now be ministering to the spiritual needs of the local Muslim community and bringing to the center preachers who share their views.
Case in point: The ISB invited Yasir Qadhi to speak at its Cambridge mosque in March. Qadhi is a Holocaust denier who preaches that Jews want to destroy Muslims and that Christians are theologically “filthy.’’
In the same July 5th edition of the Boston Globe as the Felsen and APT op eds was a letter from another foolish Jew, Rabbi Toba Spitzer, and spiritual leader of Reconstructionist synagogue Dorshe Tzedek of West Newton. It was entitled, Spitzer noted:
I want your readers to know that while one vocal but unrepresentative faction of the local Jewish community has dampened official Jewish engagement with this project, there are many across the Jewish community who are actively engaged in a variety of activities in concert with the local Muslim community, including the Islamic Society of Boston.
I was embarrassed and disheartened by the presence of mosque opponent Charles Jacobs and a few of his compatriots outside the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, but I also knew that Jacobs does not speak for me, nor, I believe, for the majority of Jews in the Boston area.
Nexus for the Jewish Fools-The Jewish Muslim Relations Center
The center of activities for these foolish Jews is the
The JMRC hopes to strengthen relations between Jews and Muslims in the Greater Boston area through:
Creating leadership collaboration
Enabling grassroots education and interaction
Providing a forum for shared inquiry and communication through the written word
Fulfilling this mission will enable us to fight anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, enhance Jewish and Muslim identity in a pluralistic society, and work together for the good of the wider community.
Among the board of the JMRC are the usual assortment of foolish Jews, the trustees of the ISBCC and the Boston chapter of the Muslim American Society.
Dr. Abdul Cader Asmal – Islamic Center of Boston, Islamic Council of New England
Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld – Hebrew College Rabbinical School
Bilal Kaleem – Muslim American Society, Boston Chapter
Dr. Larry Lowenthal – Executive Director, The American Jewish Committee (AJC) Greater Boston Chapter
Enid Shapiro – Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
Rabbi Moshe Waldockss – Temple Beth Zion, Brookline
Jews must be extremely sensitive to Islamophobia in Boston, evidenced whenever Islam is attacked, inherently, as a hostile, violent, aggressive, cruel, bigoted religion. Such ugly stereotyping of Muslims must be fought every step of the way. Knowledge of Islam is essential before one can presume to defend it. One must be aware of Islamophobic claims that Muslims are deceptive in their interaction with non-Muslims for the purpose of promoting worldwide Jihad. Jews must read more books about Islam, and must be open to honest dialogue with Muslims if they wish to understand this complex and powerful religion. Fighting anti-Semitism and Islamophobia is through education and dialogue. Otherwise we end up believing dangerous claims.
The first priority of interfaith activity for decent Jews and Muslims should have been a joint effort to expose both
the wealthy, politically-connected Jews that are attempting to incite virulent Islamophobia in order to marginalize American Muslims in the American political process and also
the Jewish fraudsters, who use fake accusations of anti-Semitism to distract from Jewish anti-Muslim incitement.
Instead, the transcription of the interview indicates that the JMRC works mostly to indoctrinate Muslims in Zio-speak and to colonize them mentally.
In the Hebrew calendar, the New Year 5768 was marked in Boston by a joint statement sparked by the conjunction of the Jewish New Year and the start of the month long Muslim observances of Ramadan.
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Building A Community of Trust
We, members of the Jewish and Muslim communities, seek to build trust and mutual understanding and strive to forge positive relationships between our respective communities. We are determined to work together in order to replace fear, distrust, and misunderstanding of each for the other, where it exists, with hope, and respectful communication.
As shared beliefs:
* We affirm the common humanity of all racial, religious, and ethnic groups, and our common needs for safety, security and dignity.
* We decry all forms of terrorism, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim prejudice, or any other form of discrimination or stigmatization against any racial, religious or ethnic group.
* We support the rights, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, of faith communities to gather for worship.
The Film “In Good Faith” showcases useful Jewish fools
The useful fools in the Boston Jewish community figured prominently in the film, “In Good Faith” produced as a project by graduating Boston College Senior, Michael Porter that premiered in 2008. You may view a trailer of the film on YouTube, the story of the ISBCC Mosque from differing vantage points:
In Good Faith is a student-documentary chronicling the building of New England’s largest mosque in Boston. The film looks at the make-up of the community, and their relationship to the rest of the city’s community of faith.
Highlighted in the project are the Muslim community’s responses to questions and concerns about Islam and their society, the evolution of two major lawsuits that delayed the construction of the mosque, and the work done behind the scenes with the supporting religious communities to foster partnerships and dialogue.
The film draws from exclusive one on one interviews with leaders of the Islamic Society of Boston, American Jewish Committee, Hebrew College, and the Archdiocese of Boston.
The Muslim American Society Bilal Kaleem, MAS Boston
Dr. Diana L. Eck, Pluralism Project
Dr. Larry Lowenthal, American Jewish Committee
Father Raymond Helmick, S.J., Boston College.
review.
Funded through a grant from
In Good Faith starts with a word of the day, “Dialog,” and remains unwaveringly faithful to pushing its agenda regardless of what facts stand in its way. In fact, the degree to which facts are twisted — or more often, ignored — and claims are simply accepted in wide-eyed innocence unintentionally demonstrate just how empty and unhelpful such PC points of faith are in serving us in our attempts to understand and deal with the real world outside campus kumbaya sessions. This is not journalism. It does not inform, it simply builds illusions, pushing its agenda, creating heroes and villains without ever giving the viewer the information necessary to judge whether the filmmaker is leading them astray.
We watched a video clip
Then there were comments from Rabbi Waldocks, whose moral compass is wobbly to say the least. Waldocks says on the film’s audio track that he hadn’t found any evidence of Saudi contributions to the construction of the ISBCC , but rather says that it came from ‘contributors’ in the community. He is truly blind to documented evidence to the contrary in the ISB trial record.
Hebrew College President David Gordis promotes mindless diversity in his remarks in the film a reflection of the agenda that both he and Rabbi Seltzer have developed for the interreligious program at the Hebrew College.
The folly of Chelm on the Charles River spreads across America
The delusions and follies of Chelm on the Charles River are spreading across America up to and including the White House. This time it is the Muslim Brotherhood front group, the FFEU Jewish Muslim outreach is an aggressive version of the delusional Jewish Muslim outreach by the Boston rabbinate chronicled here. The Washington Times piece continues,
Two years ago, the FFEU ventured into Muslim-Jewish relations, convening a summit of rabbis and imams in New York in November 2007. They combined forces for a public service announcement on CNN in early 2008 that denounced both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
The moral blindness of these foolish Jews is evidence that Chelm exists on the Charles River and is spreading across America . The FFEU sponsorship of the European rabbi and Imams visit to New York and Washington, DC, including a red carpet visit to the Obama White House, is indicative of rampant dhimmitude among liberal members of the rabbinate. The reality is that without any fundamental change in the Islamic Quranic Canon, like the rabbinate in Boston, they will look like the foolish Jews in Chelm leading their congregants astray.
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