ABE FOXMAN SPEAKS AND REMOVES ALL DOUBT THAT HE’S A DHIMMI: JERRY GORDON
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Adam Taxin of the Philadephia Jewish Culture Examiner has written this latest escapade in media manipulation by Abe Foxman of the ADL published in The Jewish Exponent, a local Federation weekly. We have posted frequently about Foxman’s excesses when it comes to his bizarre views of what constitues threats in the US. Sharia is not one of them and he goes to great lengths to criticize its critics like David Yerushalmi, Esq.- see here. He considers Evangelical Christian groups who defend Israel like CUFI as mortal enemies and he has stooped to taking six figure ‘fees’ for opening doors for White House pardons, as he did for tax-frauster and oil trader Marc Rich in January, 2001 with former Presdient Clinton-see here. Then there is his support for Mega Mosque construction while avoiding the 800 pound gorilla of anti-semitism in Islamic Doctrine.
The op-ed section of this week’s Jewish Exponent lends a considerable part of its limited space to Abraham Foxman, a man who has hardly been deprived of sufficient soapbox opportunities during the 24 years he has served as the boss of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) (affectionately known by Jewish Culture Examiner as “the Defamation League,” due to the way it ongoingly — and, make no mistake, driven by fundraising concerns — accuses non-Jews of dire anti-Semitism).
In his op-ed piece, called “Opinion: The Threat of Sharia Law: It’s All a Matter of Myth Making,” Foxman assures readers of the Jewish Exponent that “[t]he threat of the infiltration of Sharia, or Islamic law, into the American court system is one of the more pernicious conspiracy theories to gain traction in our country in recent years.”
Later in the article, Foxman, who in the past fired a New England regional ADL director who had the audacity to suggest that the Turkish (and Kurdish) Muslim extermination of up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians during World War I should be acknowledged as a “genocide,” describes “a false perception among a growing number of Americans that Sharia is a very real threat to our way of life and constitutional freedoms.”
As published in the Jewish Exponent, Foxman, who last year wrote a letter of apology to Glenn Beck for the ADL’s having sent out “[a] direct-mail piece to some ADL supporters around the country [which] inadvertently misidentified [Beck] on a list of celebrities who had made anti-Semitic statements over the past year,” considers anti-Sharia legislative efforts “at their core, predicated on prejudice and ignorance.”
Foxman, whose indefatigable fight against anti-Semitism earned him a salary of over $560,000 in 2009, also considers anti-Sharia legislative efforts “the proverbial solution in search of a problem,” as well as “a form of camouflaged bigotry that enables their proponents to advance an idea that finds fault with the Muslim faith and paints all Muslim Americans as foreigners and anti-American crusaders.”
Foxman, who has been the national director of the “Defamation League” for 24 years, since 1987, warns, in the article, that “we also face the prospect of a political season in which more candidates may be tempted to invoke this mythological threat in an effort to pander to bigotry and fear, and to score political points.”
In his Jewish Exponent piece, Foxman (who told this reporter personally in March that he has no opinion related to Great Britain’s banning of Michael Savage – the U.S.’s most popular Jewish radio host — from entering the country, [Relevant dialogue: Jewish Culture Examiner: Michael Savage is not allowed in Britain, and he claims… . Foxman: I have no position on that. Jewish Culture Examiner: … that it’s because they’re anti-Semitic; they want a Jew in there to balance out the Arabs. Foxman: I have no views on that.]), sermonizes near the end:
We have the option of heading down a path toward a greater tolerance of anti-Muslim xenophobia and fear of the “stranger in our midst,” or we can rededicate ourselves to the ideal of an America that is open and welcoming to immigrants as well as minority groups who have been here for decades. Let us hope that the better nature of America will enable us to proceed down the second path and reject those who seek to divide us for political gain, or those who wish to stereotype and scapegoat an entire people because of their religious faith.
Some – presumably those who, as Foxman phrases it in his piece, “pander to bigotry and fear” – were less than laudatory about Foxman’s piece in the Jewish Exponent.
According to Lori Lowenthal Marcus, the founder and president of the Philadelphia-area-headquartered, unabashedly-Zionist organization Z STREET: “Abe Foxman would do well to focus his energy on protecting Jews and the Jewish State rather than wasting valuable resources (such as space in Jewish media) huffing and puffing over imagined threats to Islam.”
She continued: “Sharia is a political ideology that has no place in American law. American Muslims are free to practice their own religion, but they are not free to impose it on others, which is what the anti-Sharia legislation is intended to prevent. The real myth being perpetrated here is not that there is no threat from sharia, it is that those who oppose the entwining of sharia with American law are a threat. Foxman is the scare-monger.”
Tom Trento, President of THE UNITED WEST and co-author of Shariah – The Threat to America was somewhat more concise than Lowenthal Marcus: “Abe is an idiot. You can quote me.”
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