Thursday, May 06, 2010

More letters to Rabbi Wolpe‏

There has been an enormous response to Rabbi Wolpe's recent comments by both Jews and Christians. I am publishing them for education purposes-this incident demonstrates the expanding divide among our USA religious groups and it is dangerous in the long term. Here are two more examples of such letters. Hi Shari,
I would like to weigh in this subject as well. Please feel free to share this with your mailing list.

"Itching Ears"
As a person of Jewish origin who is by faith a practicing Christian, my heart is broken by both Jews and Christians who refuse to distinguish the goodness of the Judeo-Christian tradition from the vitriol found in both the foundational texts of and historical behaviors of the adherents to Islam.

It is tragic that there appears to be woefully little understanding of orthodox Islam among the Jewish and Christian communities. What is even sadder is that though we claim Judaism and Christianity as our faiths, we can't seem to take any pride in our traditions which have produced the most prosperous, best educated, healthiest, and freest societies on earth; instead of having a positive self-image, Jews and Christians have chosen to be decidely self-loathing on the one hand while taking to lionizing Islam as a great contributor to modernity on the other. In a sick way, we in the West have treated Muslim terrorists and and tyrants with kid gloves, placing an undeserved nobility on them simply to assuage our collective guilt for our history of prejudice against minorities and the poor.

I have often pondered why after so much Islamic terrorist activity in the past three decades against American interests we continue to blame this problem on things like poverty in the Muslim world, reactions that alleges American imperialism, and the treatment of the Palestinians by the state of Israel.

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

This is a a letter from John Steinrich, our last guest speaker and author of "Words Of God?". As an authority on the Qur'an, he too weighs in on Rabbi Wolpe's Islamic appeasement during Israel's 62nd birthday celebration at Sinai Temple.
From ACT for America


Great letter by the Reyto's. It should go out to everyone at Sinai Temple, for starters, and then every other outlet available to Jewish readers. I think Wolpe should be exposed for his resistance to understanding and appreciating the stealth jihad nature of "interfaith dialogue" (it's actually "interfaith monologue").

I would want to make it clearer to Wolpe that "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is greater" - meaning greater than anything else, including YOUR god) is not just a Muslim prayer; it's an assertion of Islamic supremacy. Regardless of "what's in his heart," as Wolpe said, an imam chanting "Allahu Akbar" in a synagogue is not honoring the Christian or Jewish God in a show of mutual interfaith worship; he is announcing the superiority of HIS God Allah and the inevitable domination of the world by Islam. In light of the Islamic imperative to wipe Jews from the face of the earth and continue fighting until no other god but Allah is worshipped, THAT's why it has no place in a synagogue, especially on a day celebrating the birthday of Israel, a country that the Arab world has striven to eliminate for over 60 years and whose name does not even appear on Arab maps of the Middle East.

I would ask Wolpe why these interfaith dialogues ALWAYS, EVERYWHERE, happen ONLY in churches and synagogues, NEVER in mosques. And why is it that WE are expected to make cultural and legal concessions to every Muslim whim, when Muslim lands do not allow Jews and Christians freedom of worship - and indeed, openly persecute them? Why is it always Jews and Christians who must reach out, turn the other cheek, and apologize for perceived offenses against Islam? I have never heard an Islamic authority apologize for any atrocities committed in the name of Islam.

Well, I'm getting carried away because I feel very strongly that "interfaith dialogue" is a suicidal endeavor on our part. A prominent Jewish leader like Wolpe has no business dismissing Brigitte Gabriel, our most passionate Cassandra, for her warnings and condemning his own congregation for grasping the truth of her message. -- Mark
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From: Calabasas ACT for America

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