[osint] The Iconoclast: The Incredulity of Abe Foxman and the ADL's support for Islamic Antisemitism

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The Iconoclast 

 


Friday, 3 June 2011

The Incredulity of Abe Foxman and the ADL’s support for Islamic Antisemitism

 

by Jerry Gordon

 



   

Abe Foxman of ADL

A tip of the chapeau to Ruth S.King of the Ruthfullyyours blog 
 .

On May 31st, Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) aired a chilling  
 report  by Dale 
Hurd,  its chief European correspondent about the spate of European mega 
-mosque construction projects. The report focused on the giant mosque in Rome, 
the Turkish Government underwriting of a mega-mosque challenging the spires of 
the famed Gothic Cologne Cathedral in Germany.  The report also addressed 
similar Mosque efforts in London and Copenhagen. The latter is being built with 
funding from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Witness the comments from   

 Lars Hedegaard, Danish free speech 'hero,' about the Copenhagen mosque 
constituting ‘barracks’  to spread Islamic indoctrination  and terrorism. 

Watch the CBN segment,  
 here.

 

Pat Robertson’s following comments to this CBN European mega-mosque  segment 
about the dangers lurking behind the European mega-mosque construction campaign 
seemed  appropriate, especially for those who  have learned about the 
imperatives for Mosque construction inherent in Islamic Shariah doctrine.  
Those imperatives are patently evident in our interview 
  with Sam Solomon on 
Mosques and our  

 review of his book, Al Yahud , about implacable Muslim Jew Hatred at the core 
of Islam. That Islamic Jew Hatred  is very much on display via MEMRI videos of 
rallies in Egypt and other hot  spots in the so-called Arab Spring.

 

But all this lost on the incredible Abe Foxman of ADL.  Foxman and his 
‘diversity-minded’ minions at the ADL, a supposed bulwark against anti-Semitism 
in America, dashed off a letter 
  on June 2nd  
to Pat Robertson of the 700 Club taking him to task for being  against mosque 
construction, against Muslims generally  and creating the impression that Islam 
is equivalent  to doctrinal  equivalent of Hiterlism.

Note what Foxman  wrote to Robertson:

 

We were deeply disturbed by your remarks on the May 31 edition of The 700 
Clubconcerning Muslims in Europe and America following a segment on the growing 
construction of mosques on the European Continent.  You asked the question, why 
is it bigoted if one speaks out "against an institution that is intent on 
dominating us and imposing Sharia law and making us all part of a universal 
Caliphate?  That is the goal of some of these people.  Why is that bigoted?  
Why is it bigoted to resist Adolf Hitler and the Nazisand to say that we don't 
want to live under Nazi Germany?"

 

Your statements here were troubling on several levels.  For one, the suggestion 
that Muslims who, as you put it, "come into Europeand build their mosques" and 
"come into America and set up their schools and madrassas" are doing so in an 
effort to "exercise domination over the world" is a false notion based on 
hateful stereotypes of Islam.  While you did qualify your statement with "some 
of these people," you then pre-empted it with a series of generalizations.  In 
fact, many if not most Muslims in Europe and in America immigrated to find a 
better life for themselves and to freely practice their faith.  Sure, there is 
a minority of Muslims with extreme views. But the overwhelming majority of 
Muslims rejects these views and wants little more than the ability to practice 
their faith openly and freely and to be accepted as contributing members of 
society.  It is wrong to paint all Muslims with such a broad brush, or to 
portray all Muslims as extremists as you have done here.

 

Second, the notion that Islam is something that needs to be opposed in the same 
manner as people resisted Adolf Hitler and the Nazis is outrageous and 
offensive.  Nazism was a racist and genocidal political movement unlike any 
other in history, responsible for the massacre of six million Jews and millions 
of others in the Holocaust.  One simply cannot and should not lump Muslims into 
the same category as Hitler.

 

So in response to your question about why is it bigoted for people to "oppose 
Muslims," to me the answer is clear:  It is bigoted when one assumes the worst 
about an entire faith based on the beliefs of a few; it is bigoted to paint all 
Muslims (or for that matter, Christians or Jews) with the broade

[osint] The Iconoclast: The Incredulity of Abe Foxman and the ADL's support for Islamic Antisemitism by Jerry Gordon]

[Beowulf]

The Iconoclast 

 


Friday, 3 June 2011

The Incredulity of Abe Foxman and the ADL’s support for Islamic Antisemitism

 

by Jerry Gordon

 



   

Abe Foxman of ADL

A tip of the chapeau to Ruth S.King of the Ruthfullyyours blog 
 .

On May 31st, Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) aired a chilling  
 report  by Dale 
Hurd,  its chief European correspondent about the spate of European mega 
-mosque construction projects. The report focused on the giant mosque in Rome, 
the Turkish Government underwriting of a mega-mosque challenging the spires of 
the famed Gothic Cologne Cathedral in Germany.  The report also addressed 
similar Mosque efforts in London and Copenhagen. The latter is being built with 
funding from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Witness the comments from   

 Lars Hedegaard, Danish free speech 'hero,' about the Copenhagen mosque 
constituting ‘barracks’  to spread Islamic indoctrination  and terrorism. 

Watch the CBN segment,  
 here.

 

Pat Robertson’s following comments to this CBN European mega-mosque  segment 
about the dangers lurking behind the European mega-mosque construction campaign 
seemed  appropriate, especially for those who  have learned about the 
imperatives for Mosque construction inherent in Islamic Shariah doctrine.  
Those imperatives are patently evident in our interview 
  with Sam Solomon on 
Mosques and our  

 review of his book, Al Yahud , about implacable Muslim Jew Hatred at the core 
of Islam. That Islamic Jew Hatred  is very much on display via MEMRI videos of 
rallies in Egypt and other hot  spots in the so-called Arab Spring.

 

But all this lost on the incredible Abe Foxman of ADL.  Foxman and his 
‘diversity-minded’ minions at the ADL, a supposed bulwark against anti-Semitism 
in America, dashed off a letter 
  on June 2nd  
to Pat Robertson of the 700 Club taking him to task for being  against mosque 
construction, against Muslims generally  and creating the impression that Islam 
is equivalent  to doctrinal  equivalent of Hiterlism.

Note what Foxman  wrote to Robertson:

 

We were deeply disturbed by your remarks on the May 31 edition of The 700 
Clubconcerning Muslims in Europe and America following a segment on the growing 
construction of mosques on the European Continent.  You asked the question, why 
is it bigoted if one speaks out "against an institution that is intent on 
dominating us and imposing Sharia law and making us all part of a universal 
Caliphate?  That is the goal of some of these people.  Why is that bigoted?  
Why is it bigoted to resist Adolf Hitler and the Nazisand to say that we don't 
want to live under Nazi Germany?"

 

Your statements here were troubling on several levels.  For one, the suggestion 
that Muslims who, as you put it, "come into Europeand build their mosques" and 
"come into America and set up their schools and madrassas" are doing so in an 
effort to "exercise domination over the world" is a false notion based on 
hateful stereotypes of Islam.  While you did qualify your statement with "some 
of these people," you then pre-empted it with a series of generalizations.  In 
fact, many if not most Muslims in Europe and in America immigrated to find a 
better life for themselves and to freely practice their faith.  Sure, there is 
a minority of Muslims with extreme views. But the overwhelming majority of 
Muslims rejects these views and wants little more than the ability to practice 
their faith openly and freely and to be accepted as contributing members of 
society.  It is wrong to paint all Muslims with such a broad brush, or to 
portray all Muslims as extremists as you have done here.

 

Second, the notion that Islam is something that needs to be opposed in the same 
manner as people resisted Adolf Hitler and the Nazis is outrageous and 
offensive.  Nazism was a racist and genocidal political movement unlike any 
other in history, responsible for the massacre of six million Jews and millions 
of others in the Holocaust.  One simply cannot and should not lump Muslims into 
the same category as Hitler.

 

So in response to your question about why is it bigoted for people to "oppose 
Muslims," to me the answer is clear:  It is bigoted when one assumes the worst 
about an entire faith based on the beliefs of a few; it is bigoted to paint all 
Muslims (or for that matter, Christians or Jews) with the broade