More perpexling and vexing is the fact some some Jews openly condemn Israel’s defense of their own country against an onslaught and unrelenting attacks (and go so far as to parrot the false accusation of Israel being "Occupiers" as well as their supporting the "So-Called" Palestinians at the expense of Isreal's security) as Israel fights for its very survival, a Jewish voice (a Rabbi no less) of reason and sanity emerges and addresses the barbaric, evil (Islam) which threatens not only Israel and the US, but the entire world.
Though Rabbi Lewis is an admitted lib (who voted against Bush and is a proud, card-carrying member of the ACLU) he is first and foremost a wise person; a student of history and Patriot, who in this instance sees with moral clarity and perceives this threat in terms usually reserved for us Cons (Black and White, Good vs Evil, etc) as opposed to the usual “Grey perspective” most libs attribute to all issues.
His arguments are succinct and though he does relate to this threat through the prism of his Jewish faith and heritage, his opinions are secular in nature as they apply to people of all faiths, or no faiths.
I especially appreciate his take on “Moderate Muslims” and their responsibility of the spread of this vile, despicable conduct (Terrorism) in the name of their “Religion of Peace” through their complacency and silence.
His arguments and analogies are so compelling and prescient that we should copy them and use them when debating libs who excuse and defend Islam as well as repeating his clarion call of vigilance and warning to all, to take this threat seriously less the Free World succumb to this greatest threat to mankind, ever!
Anyone spot the clinker here? The rabbi needs a history lesson.
This Rabbi gets it. Unfotunately, only a few of our countryment do—and that includes Jews. The analogy here is an apt one. If we had fought WWII like we are fighting the Global War on Terror (which we don’t even call it anymore), we would have lost. I think a big part of our attitude is the feeling that Islam can’t win. The fact is that it can—and a big part of the strategy is to use our own laws and culture against us.
I was struck by one sentance you wrote:
“Though Rabbi Lewis is an admitted lib (who voted against Bush and is a proud, card-carrying member of the ACLU) he is first and foremost a wise person;..”
What a contradiction.
When reading the article at the link (FrontPage is one of my bookmarked favorites. It should be everone’s.)I noted the fact the Rabbi warns against the danger, yet belongs to the poltical party and a legal group dedicated to undermining the very essence of the fabric of America. He is, in effect, selling lighter fluid and matches to crazy people, then warning the mob is setting the world on fire.
One of the oddest things is how intelligent people cannot be introspective. What the heck is he thinking?
Male Bovine Fecal Effluvia, Rabbi.
This guy also admits to being a card carrying ACLU member and a registered Democrat.
A large portion of his sermon is good and should be read, but there are some fatal flaws in it.
We also did not have 5-6 decades of the idiot box in the corner of every living room spewing out it's Godlessness practically 24/7
This man has a thin veneer of wisdom, but when he mentions good (moderate) muslims, I get sick.
Moderate muslims are like the moderate Germans and the moderate Japanese in the pre-war and WW2 era. They went with the herd, ultimately, and the herd went where the immoderate led them.
And this time, the herd won’t need a Luftwaffe, or a plague of U-boats, or a gestapo. They number over 1.5 billion. Their birth rates are their overwhelming advantage.
Of course, our moral, spiritual and intellectual prostration doesn’t help things either.
Israel is the laboratory – the test market. Every death, every explosion, every grisly encounter is not a random, bloody orgy. It is a calculated, strategic probe into the heart, guts and soul of the West.
They didn't know how. They had not practiced. They had an instruction to do so, but their rabbis were too habituated not to rock the Talmudic boat to study Exodus 23:10-11 long enough to understand its obvious meaning (and the Talmud Yerushalmi would have been of no help there, as reality reared its ugly head at the moment of the return from Babylon). To this day our translations reflect this historic misinterpretation of the Sabbath for the Land and as a direct result, to this day we face exactly the same peril.
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Thanks to EVERY FReeper commenting. I have NO reason to read this rabbi’s rant.
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We are at war. We are at war with an enemy as savage, as voracious, as heartless as the Nazis but one wouldn't know it from our behavior. During WWII we didn't refer to storm troopers as freedom fighters. We didn't call the Gestapo, militants. We didn't see the attacks on our Merchant Marine as acts by rogue sailors. We did not justify the Nazis rise to power as our fault.
"Let me mince no words in saying that from Fort Hood to Bali, from Times Square to London, from Madrid to Mumbai, from 9/11 to Gaza, the murderers, the barbarians are radical Islamists.
To camouflage their identity is sedition. To excuse their deeds is contemptible. To mask their intentions is unconscionable."
The Rabbi closes with a contradiction to his plea! ... “The Muslim community has the absolute, constitutional right to build their building wherever they wish.” The enmey is using our Constitution against US. I am no longer tolerant of this tactic. There is no Constitutional right to plan sedition and carry it out, which is exactly what the Muslim center at ground zero will accomplish, as a symbol for radical Islam (and there really is no other entity of Islam) to rally around in their continuing assault on our Republic as they inveigle for their Sharia enslavement of we the people. There has to come a time when the murderous enemy is no longer granted the same rights as We The People.