Muslims attack Jew at U.S. Islamic rally

WND ^ | July 24, 2006 | Staff

[Nachum]

A Jewish activist was physically assaulted and his life was threatened during a planned "peaceful" rally held by the Muslim American Society in Boston, he told WorldNetDaily today.

"I have never been physically attacked before. I've had slurs thrown at me, got into heated debates, but what was amazing was that I was actually physically attacked," Seva Brodsky said. "Since they were the majority, and felt invincible, they threatened to kill me!"

Brodsky, who recently returned from nearly six months in Israel, captured some of the confrontation on video, available at the weblog Solomonia.com.

The event Friday at Boston's City Hall Plaza was the Muslim American Society's "Justice for Palestine and Lebanon Protest." Participants brought signs, including one calling for "victory" for the terrorist group Hezbollah and the "Palestinian Resistance."

Brodsky reported to Solomonia he was bullied, pushed, shoved, cursed and abused after showing up in Boston where Muslims said they planned to rally to call for an end to the "indiscriminate" loss of life in Lebanon.

The event was held by the Boston branch of the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, where spokesman Mahdi Bray told WorldNetDaily his group's events always are peaceful.

"I've been doing rallies since LBJ was president and I came out of the non-violence movement. Every rally we've ever had, regardless of the politics, all of our rallies are non-violent and peaceful," he insisted.

The local event organizer, Omar Abdala, said in reports that it was "unacceptable" to indiscriminately kill innocent civilians, and he is calling for Israel to pull back immediately.

Israel and Hezbollah, a terrorist faction operating in Lebanon, have been at war for two weeks after an attack on Israeli soldiers left several dead and two more as hostages.

Brodsky said he took out and turned on a video camera as he approached the assembled group, estimated by Boston police at about 500.

"As I approached the crowd I was confronted," Brodsky wrote. He said the man "tried to harass and intimidate me" and blocked his camera. When he tried to lift his camera overhead, to shoot over the top of the man confronting him, Brodsky said the man raised a large white banner to create a new barrier.

Then the crowd started threatening and verbally abusing him, he said, and a "short and skinny" woman screamed hysterically and grabbed his arm and his camera.

"At this point, indignant and even outraged, realizing that I was entirely on my own and no help was forthcoming, I yanked the camera … and a scuffle ensued," Brodsky said.

But one man then told Brodsky he would be hunted down and killed.

Brodsky said he eventually talked with a police officer and was directed to a nearby station, but he hadn't decided whether he would try to pursue a complaint.

Bray said there have been instances of individuals showing up at rallies with their own agenda of violence or intimidation and that he always arranges for police to be at rallies to address problems that do occur.

The Muslim American Society's website carried the Boston Globe report on the event. The paper reported both Muslims and Christians were at the rally and carried signs such as "Free All Palestinian and Lebanese Political Prisoners," "End the Israeli Occupation," and "Stop Aid and Weapons." ,P> Brodsky, however, captured photographs of rally signs that said "Victory to Hizballah and the Palestinian Resistance" and "Zionists Out of the Middle East." A flyer attached to the sign said "Armagedon (sic)."

"I had the wrong type of faith," Brodsky told WorldNetDaily. "The Arabs at the demonstration were so hostile. They could see right away who I was."

The event was a big step among Muslims, said Caline Jarudi, of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Massachusetts, because Muslims frequently are concerned about vocalizing their views.

Participants in the rally also held pictures of the dead in Lebanon, but a spokesman for the American Jewish Committee in Boston, Lawrence Lowenthal, said Hezbollah has moved into homes and apartments in civilian areas in Lebanon in order to launch rockets at Israel.

"I don't understand what alternative Israel has," he told the newspaper. "Hezbollah is holding Israel hostage."

[edcoil]

Dude, they are killing non Muslims everywhere in the world.

What part of this don't you get?

[radar101]

The "Religion of Peace"...proves once again that it is NOT!

[Radix]

Michael Graham at WRKO radio says that he has a video of some of this at his web site.

I don't have time now to look for it, but I heard that on the program earlier today.

[TheDon]

http://www.solomonia.com/blog/

[NewHampshireDuo]

Brodsky was on Boston radio this morning but I only caught the last part of the interview. Gee, sure is interesting that the Boston Globe whitewashed the event (not). When I was growing up seems like I was always hearing about how the Zionists controlled the US press. If they ever did, they sure lost it somewhere along the way.

[TheDon]

David Rolde, Secretary and Administrative Committee member of the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts:]

[IamHD]

The link doesn't work. Gee, I wonder who removed his blog?

[goldstategop]

A leftist Jew being assaulted by a Muslim. I take it he wasn't assaulted for being a pacifist, now was he? Those types never seem to learn they're NOT hated for their political stands but because of who they are. DUH!

(Go Israel Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[Billthedrill]

Man, you have to wonder just how sheltered an upbringing some of these guys had - yes, bub, there are folks out there who hate Jews and will happily kill them whether they do the doe-eyed "but I'm on your side and Trying To Understand Root Causes Of Violence" or not. It's a fairly recent development - three millennia or so...

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[LibWhacker]

Hasn't made the MSM yet. Imagine if one hair in one muslim beard were threatened.

[Natural Law]

They are opposed to indiscriminate killing of Muslims. They wholeheartedly support the discriminate killing of Infidels.

[KoRn]

I'm surprised he lived to tell about it and has all of his body parts attached.

[freeangel]

Throw a pigs head in a mosque and it's a hate crime. Kill, or threaten to kill a Jew and it's totally acceptable.

[dervish]

Given his description one might conclude that some at the rally were violently protecting their identity from his camera.

Makes one wonder.

[Alouette]

A leftist Jew being assaulted by a Muslim.

Seva Brodsky is not a leftist.

[Jorge]

The Bible describes Satan's fury and rage at Israel in the end times.

I think we are in the end times.

[Jackson Brown]

The Muslim American Society's Goals
By Daniel Pipes
May 25, 2005

I wrote about the Muslim American Society in "The Islamic States of America?" and how it seeks to replace the Constitution with the Koran. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross takes this further today in "MAS's Muslim Brotherhood Problem," where he looks closely at the MAS Minnesota website and notes that it calls on members to fulfill their "duties as outlined in the Message of the Teachings by Imam [Hasan] Al-Banna." Gartenstein-Ross then takes a look at The Message of the Teachings and finds that it instructs Muslims that they must work on reforming their government

so that it may become a truly Islamic government. … By Islamic government I mean a government whose officers are Muslims who perform the obligatory duties of Islam, who do not make public their disobedience, and who enforce the rules and teachings of Islam.

Al-Banna also instructs that Muslims should "Completely boycott non-Islamic courts and judicial systems. Also, dissociate yourself from organizations, newspapers, committees, schools, and institutions which oppose your Islamic ideology." Al-Banna also condones in this book spreading Islam with violence: "Always intend to go for Jihad and desire martyrdom. Prepare for it as much as you can."

The universality of Islamic law comes up repeatedly. MAS requires adjunct members to read To Be a Muslim by Fathi Yakun, which states that: "Until the nations of the world have functionally Islamic governments, every individual who is careless or lazy in working for Islam is sinful." Adjunct members also must read Sayyid Qutb's Milestones, which makes jihad a central obligation of Muslims.

Comment: Those of us who watch the growth of radical Islam in the United States tend to focus on the noisy organizations like CAIR, MPAC, and ISNA. The Muslim American Society, which claims 53 chapters and 10,000 members, tends to go about its work quietly; it is none the less dangerous – and perhaps more so – for that. (May 25, 2005)

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/461