Are you ready for Rabbis Gone Wild -- Boston Edition? In the
latest installment of this tragicomedy, the progressive Jewish leadership of
Massachusetts decides to break the arrogance barrier and set new records for
dangerous egomania.
First, let's meet our cast: seventy distinguished rabbis in
Greater Boston, including the Past President of Hebrew College. Boy, you
could fell an ox with the collective weight of these worthies' credentials.
And now, the bloodcurdling story: On June 10, these seventy
men and women publicly condemned and virtually excommunicated one of the
finest American Jewish leaders and human rights activist alive today.
Why? Because Dr.
Charles Jacobs has the chutzpah to present documented facts about the
Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, Boston's increasingly infamous,
radical-linked, Saudi-funded mega-mosque.
In a broadside entitled "An
Open Letter to the Jewish Community," published in the Jewish
Advocate, seventy rabbis signed their name to a letter demanding that
"Mr. Jacobs discontinue his destructive campaign against Boston's
Muslim community, which is based on innuendo, half-truths and unproven
conspiracy theories. We call upon members of our community to reject the
dangerous politics of division that Mr. Jacobs fosters."
The rabbis then referenced the Torah portion in which
Israelite scouts are struck by fear: "Because they succumbed to their
fears, God condemned this generation to die in the wilderness. We refuse to
allow Mr. Jacobs to spread his calumnies and paralyze our community in
fear."
Way to go, rabbis! Stirring imagery! Biblical metaphor! Huge
spiritual uplift! No, wait, that was my lunch.
To get the full flavor of the rabbis' epic stupidity, let's
meet the victim of their "Jewish fatwa," Dr. Charles
Jacobs. In the late '80s, Jacobs co-founded Boston's branch of CAMERA,
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, to expose and
combat media bias against Israel. A few years later, he founded, along with
Christian and Muslim Africans, the American Anti-Slavery Group. Charles
Jacobs was given the Boston Freedom Award by Coretta Scott King for his work
helping to emancipate enslaved black Africans in Sudan.
In 2002, he founded The David Project, a powerhouse
organization that trains college students to advocate for Israel and fight
back against the demonization of Israel on campus. He currently heads
Americans for Peace and Tolerance, an interfaith group he founded in 2008 to
protect American values from attack by radical Islamists and to support
moderate Muslims. In 2007, Jacobs was named by The Forward as one of
America's top 50 Jewish leaders.
So let me ask you, O Great Progressive Rabbis, this is the
man you want to casually destroy? While you were risking nothing more than
the stampede to the canapés at some interfaith blabberfest, Charles Jacobs
was flying to Sudan to redeem slaves with money he raised and bring them to
freedom.
While you were chasing the latest must-have fad in
"social justice" and ignoring the rising storm of campus
anti-Semitism, Charles Jacobs was doing the grunt work of establishing an
organization on the ground to help besieged Jewish students tell the truth
about Israel.
While you were playing patty-cake with Jew-hating imams,
Charles Jacobs was investigating the facts about their disgusting
affiliations and helping moderate Muslims stand up to the radical takeover
of their institutions.
O Most Compassionate Ones, do we really have so many people
like Charles Jacobs that you can afford to toss him in the trash?
Now let's look at the people you do like, those
spicy characters you're staking your reputations on. They're all linked to Boston's
mega-mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, which is run
by the Muslim American Society, or as federal prosecutors like to call it,
"the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood."
The Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) cavalcade includes its
founder, MIT graduate Abdurahman Alamoudi, currently rotting in jail on a
23-year sentence for al-Qaeda-linked terrorist pranks; the loathsome Sheik
Yusuf al-Qaradawi,
wart-faced "spiritual" leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who's
banned from the U.S. but served as ISB Trustee; Osama Kandil, ISB Trust
President, director of an Islamic charity designated as terrorist by the
U.S. government; and Trustee Jamal Badawi, unindicted co-conspirator in the
Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial who tells Boston Muslims they
must live only under Sharia Law.
How do I know these facts? Because Charles Jacobs has worked
doggedly to expose them, for which I'm immensely grateful. Now, Wise and
Wonderful Rabbis, why aren't you grateful, too? Why aren't you saying,
"Thank you, Dr. Charles Jacobs, for being our modern-day Paul Revere,
the Boston hero who alerted us of invasion from a hostile power. Have an
honorary degree on us!"
Instead, you flew into a rage at Jacobs' latest shocker: a video
of Beantown's jihadi rock star, Imam Abdullah Farooq, instructing followers
to "grab onto the gun and the sword. Don't be afraid to step out into
this world and do your job." More chilling than Farooq's words is their
context: urging Muslims to support two violent locals, "the Grey Lady
of al-Qaeda," Aaafia Siddiqui, who's convicted of shooting FBI agents
in Pakistan; and Tarek Mehana, the excitable Sudbury youngster arrested for
plotting to murder shoppers in New England malls.
Does this Imam Farooq sound like the kind of fellow you want
training your police force? Not unless you want police so
"sensitive" they polish their badges while the next Tarek Mehana
decides to give New England shoppers a side of bullets with their fries.
And that's why Jacobs' video criticized Governor Deval
Patrick for publicly embracing Imam Farooq and accepting a $50,000 check of
dubious origins from him to train police in "Muslim cultural
sensitivities."
And for this act of supreme civic responsibility, you defame
and slander Charles Jacobs? For this, you accuse him of a "destructive
campaign against Boston's Muslim community" and expose him and his
family to potential dangers from vengeful Islamists? For this, you sear the
Scarlet B of Bigot on his forehead and cast him into the cold?
Dear Loving and Highly Spiritually Evolved Progressive
Rabbis, you're always yammering about dialoguing with "the other,"
right? So here's an "other" you might try dialoguing with: any
Jew who has an ounce of sanity.
You know, all those nice people in your much-vaunted
"community" who aren't willing to have their throats slit just
because you insist it's the tolerant, hate-free thing to do.
Quick question, O Learned Ones: What are you going to do when
jihad-crazed maniacs like Tarek Mehana come after your family with machine
guns in the mall? Swat them with your diplomas? Teach them the finer points
of Rashi? "Dialogue" on which of your limbs to chop off?
As for all you lovely lady rabbis on the list -- enjoy
sermonizing in your burqa! And just hope your daughters don't have to endure
the female bris ceremony.
Now, rabbis, I say this only out of the deepest concern for
your mental health: Ask a doctor in your congregation to check if your
Galloping Smug-itis has reached Stage 4 yet.
Because I'd like to think there's still hope for you. But
you're making it really tough.
And by the way, nowhere in your job description can I find
"will work to self-righteously deliver congregants into the hands of
genocidal maniacs who conspire to shoot people in shopping malls."
You want me to pay dues for that? Two thousand
dollars a year for you to hand me over to the Jew-hating nuts? I want my
money back!
And please spare me your teary speeches about the Holocaust
and your bus trips to the Holocaust Museum.
To you, Never Again apparently means Never Again Will We
Bother to Flick An Eyelash In the Annoyingly Icky Direction of Genocidal
Threats.
And finally, here's something you may never understand: One
Charles Jacobs is worth more than seventy of you. Why? Because he fights for
the truth.