PRO-KORAN REFORM RABBI YOFFIE SAYS TORAH CAUSES TERRORISM

A few years ago "Rabbi" Eric Yoffie, a Reform clergyman spoke at an Islamic Society of North America convention, an anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood organization that supported Hamas, and denounced Dennis Prager for criticizing the Koran.

At ISNA, Eric Yoffie sanctimoniously warned that...

There exists in this country among all Americans — whether Jews, Christians, or non-believers — a huge and profound ignorance about Islam. It is not that stories about Islam are missing from our media; there is no shortage of voices prepared to tell us that fanaticism and intolerance are fundamental to Islamic religion, and that violence and even suicide bombing have deep Koranic roots. There is no lack of so-called experts who are eager to seize on any troubling statement by any Muslim thinker and pin it on Islam as a whole. Thus, it has been far too easy to spread the image of Islam as enemy, as terrorist, as the frightening unknown.
How did this happen?
How did it happen that Christian fundamentalists, such as Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham, make vicious and public attacks against your religious tradition?
How did it happen that when a Muslim congressman takes his oath of office while holding the Koran, Dennis Prager suggests that the congressman is more dangerous to America than the terrorists of 9/11?

Mr. Yoffie knows what the real source of terrorism is. The Bible. And the Jews.

Referring to the Torah, the Jewish bible, Eric Yoffie wrote,

"The reason for Jewish terror is Torah. It is not territories and occupation that are to blame, although they are part of the picture. It is not racism or hatred of Arabs that are at fault, although they play a role. The heart of the problem is Torah, the sacred teachings of Judaism."

Then Eric Yoffie puts on his best pair of jackboots and demands that Jewish religious schools be closed. "If a single yeshiva student is implicated in terrorist activities, the yeshiva must be closed."

Maybe Yoffie would care to set up some sort of organization for the purpose of closing Jewish schools and synagogues he politically opposes. The Communists had a group like that called the Yevsektsia. The left's real endgame is outlawing religion. They will, if necessary, pretend to be Rabbis and even run organizations they call synagogues, but their endgame is a war on religion.

Does Mr. Yoffie propose closing any mosques whose member commits an act of terrorism? Somehow I doubt it. The mosque and the Koran are sacred. The Bible, to bigots like Eric Yoffie, is hateful.

The left is showing its true ugly face. It doesn't just support Muslim terrorists. It hates Jews.

This proposal comes from the same cretin who responded to Burn-a-Koran Day with shock and horror. "We can scarcely find words to express our revulsion at the Dove World Outreach Center's "Burn a Koran Day," scheduled for September 11. Only those whose minds have been tainted by evil and acrimony would undertake to organize a sacrilegious event such as this and to do so in the name of God and religious piety."

They proposed burning the Koran. That's terrible. Now if they burned the Torah, Eric Yoffie would be gleefully tossing armfuls of bibles into the flames while cackling with glee.

But Christians shouldn't feel left out. Eric Yoffie hates you almost as much as he hates Jews.

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism, said "religious right" leaders believe "unless you attend my church, accept my God and study my sacred text you cannot be a moral person."
"What could be more bigoted than to claim that you have a monopoly on God?" he said during the movement's national assembly in Houston, which runs through Sunday.

Claiming that anyone who disagrees with you is a bigot who should be locked up?

Yoffie did not mention evangelical Christians directly, using the term "religious right" instead. In a separate interview, he said the phrase encompassed conservative activists of all faiths, including within the Jewish community.
"We cannot forget that when Hitler came to power in 1933, one of the first things that he did was ban gay organizations," Yoffie said. "Yes, we can disagree about gay marriage. But there is no excuse for hateful rhetoric that fuels the hellfires of anti-gay bigotry."

And if there's one thing Eric Yoffie is an expert on, it's hateful rhetoric.

While Herr Yoffie might disagree with Hitler on banning gay groups, both anti-Semites are on the same page when it comes to banning yeshivas.

Maybe it's the same fallible and uninspired human nature that manufactures state-establishments also manufactures terrorism?

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

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that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

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Pro-koran reform rabbi Yoffie says Torah causes terrorism

The actual ancient Biblical Israelites were much more like today's moslems than most people would like to admit. But that is not a criticism. It is praise!

Just a few weeks ago Jews all over the world read the story of Pinechas, who in a fit of righteous wrath picked up a spear and killed Zimri Ben Sallu' and his Moabite lover Kozbi. For this he was rewarded with an eternal priesthood and some commentators say that is is the same person as 'Eliyahu HaNavi' (the Prophet Elijah), zakhur latov, who to this day has not died.

This is what religion was like pre-"enlightenment." People didn't just pay lip service back then. When they said G-d was the Ultimate Authority they literally meant it! Now all Jews and chrstians have subconsciously accepted the moral superiority of secularism and are continually apologizing for the actions of their co-religionists who actually act like their ancestors.

A few weeks ago homosexual militants held a "pride" march in Jerusalem--the holiest city in the world. One "ultra-Orthodox" man was so disgusted that he attempted what Pinechas did (though he didn't succeed). Immediately good "Orthodox Jews" began falling all over themselves to condemn him and assuring their secular betters not to judge Judaism by this man.

Now whether or not what this man did was justified is not for me to decide. After all, murder is certainly as prohibited as homosexuality and in most cases such issues are to be decided by a rabbinic court. But the nature of this particular provocation was almost inconceivable. His critics were quick to point out that what these homosexuals were doing wasn't quite as bad as what Zimri and Kozbi had done. But I would like to ask one question:

What would it have taken for this man's actions to be justified in the eyes of his critics? If the actions of Zimri and Kozbi were to, G-d forbid, be repeated today and if someone, like Pinechas, took matters into his own hands, how many of these same people would be apologizing just as profusely and begging secularists not to judge their religion too harshly?

I don't want to be misunderstood. I am not pro-islam. However, I do not hypocritically demand that moslems go down the same modernist, secularist path that Jews and chrstians have done (as so many conservatives do). The "enlightenment" and the idea that no one can really know with certainty which religion is true (which is what separation of religion and state is really based on) are the seeds sown at the beginning that have led to this current crisis.

I'm not a "lost tribes" person, but if in G-d's will they have been placed in suspended animation for all these millenia, then I'm about ready to have them unleashed on the world. Then both secularists and modern Jewish and chrstian "conservatives" will see what real religion is about!

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