Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Boy am I behind. Sorry for the lack of posts yesterday and into today? Miss me? (Don't answer.) You won't mind if the next few entries are more link than comment, OK?
Hot on the heels of the release of the video of his debate with the Muslim American Society/Islamic Society of Boston's M. Bilal Kaleel, M. Zuhdi Jasser comes out with this excellent piece at Daily Caller concerning the MAS, the ISB, and taking the defending our own Charles Jacobs from his Rabbinical critics: Time to take sides
...From the inside, many if not most of our mosques in American Islam are suffering deeply from the unopposed hegemony of Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood and toxic foreign petrodollar interests. For exposing this 'tough love,' reformists often pay a heavy price. This is not "fear-mongering." It is reality.
Governor Deval Patrick, Rabbi Gurvis, and other leaders should not elevate Islamists like Imam Abdullah Faaruuq and his team. By doing so, they make reformists irrelevant and kill any hope for a battle of ideas.
Make no mistake. I encourage Boston leaders to engage Muslim communities. But, engagement should be critical of any Islamist origins and goals. If the Governor and a coalition of rabbis do not have the courage to take on the ideas and foreign entanglements of Islamists, who will? If they cannot recognize that American Muslims are far more diverse than the MAS and ISBCC care to portray, who will?...
