tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4190492416303060925.post2699474300015366085..comments2023-09-28T02:06:36.047-07:00Comments on GreensPiece: Fantasies and falsehoodsPapa Whiskeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198071543637829388noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4190492416303060925.post-22707810499055466362008-01-31T15:18:00.000-08:002008-01-31T15:18:00.000-08:00What is wrong with today's Jews?A perspective of a...<B>What is wrong with today's Jews?</B><BR/>A perspective of a moderate Muslim.<BR/><BR/>When Muslims criticize Jews chances are it's Islamists. You rarely see moderate (an I do mean real moderate, not Islamists like CAIR who claim to be moderate) Muslims saying unflattering things about the Jews. So, normally, when I see the Jews do dumb things i.e., supporting an Islamist congressional candidate because of partisanship (American Jewish World's support for Keith Ellison) or providing utilities to a terrorist enclave (Gaza), I try to keep my mouth shut. For obvious reasons. But not this time.<BR/><BR/>I thought I've seen everything: Cuban missile crisis, fall of Berlin wall, 9/11. Until recently, I thought that the father of modern terrorism getting awarded a Nobel Peace Prize was the most peculiar event in my lifetime. But a recent, largely unnoticed event, could take the cake in peculiarity contest.<BR/><BR/>On December 15, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, the president of the Union of Reform Judaism (one of the largest Jewish organizations in America), gave a sermon in San Diego in front 5,000 Jews in which he announced URJ's alliance with Islamic Society of North America (ISNA - one of the largest Muslim organizations in America).<BR/><BR/>As a part of the sermon, Rabbi Yoffie stated that "[ISNA] has issued a strong and unequivocal condemnation of terror, including a specific condemnation of Hizbollah and Hamas terror against Jews and Israelis. It has also recognized Israel as a Jewish state and supported a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." But has it really?<BR/><BR/>Read more: <A HREF="http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-is-wrong-with-todays-jews.html" REL="nofollow">http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-is-wrong-with-todays-jews.html</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com