Time to Get a Clue, Jew

If you're a clueless squish who knows (or who has made a decision to know) nothing about Islam, nothing about "jihad is the way; sharia is the goal," nothing about the modern resurgence of supremacism being pushed by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Saudis and the Khomeinists, then, and only then, could you write something like this:

I was deeply saddened by the Anti-Defamation League’s position against the construction of the Sufi community center in downtown Manhattan.

The hostile reaction that has met the plans for the Cordoba Center should come as no surprise. Some of the arguments even sound reasonable but that does not make them acceptable. ADL National Director Abe Foxman recommends that the community center should be allowed to exist but at a distance from the World Trade Center site. Indeed, in our society we have sought to ensure a minimum level of decorum around mourning and treatment of the dead, even when it interferes with other core principles.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is not attempting to erect a statue of Osama Bin Laden or to spew hatred. His message appears to be one more of dialogue and reconciliation. All Muslims did not seek to destroy the Towers and kill Americans. Many stand as proud Americans.

The Jewish people share collective trauma, and Foxman’s response demonstrates that the Holocaust continues to shape our collective psyches.

Many complain that they do not hear moderate Muslims rebuking their radical co-religionists. Let’s demonstrate what a truly free society looks and acts like. German society has not shied away from confronting the Holocaust. One cannot walk through Berlin without being assaulted by memorials to the past. Give a Muslim population that chance to come face to face with these issues on a daily basis...

Yes, as Jews is behoves us to give that nice "interfaith" imam the benefit of the doubt. And maybe if we do, "the Muslim population" will be spurred to "come face to face" with uncomfortable issues--like, say, the Muslim propensity for Holocaust denial and the ugly, bald-faced Judenhass written right into Islam's holy texts. Don't worry 'bout a thing, 'cause every little thing's gonna be alright.

Anyone else hear echoes of German Jewry circa 1933 (with maybe a hint of Bob Marley) in any of this?

Update: Robert Spencer says NYC approving construction of this mega-edifice amounts to a "greenlight for Islamic supremacism."

Funny, that also describes the squishy, self-loathing Western social doctrine of multiculturalism.

Update: Andy McCarthy sees parallels between the "interfaith" imam and Turkey's p.m.:

The GZM’s backers — Imam Rauf, in particular — are striking reminders of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. For years, American and European opinion elites ignored a wealth of evidence to the contrary and pronounced Erdogan a moderate Muslim — purveyor of a hip, modern, tolerant, Western-friendly Islam. His Islamist past? His reluctance to condemn terror groups like Hamas? His practice of sending one message to Western audiences and another, quite different one to Muslim audiences? Nothing to worry about, we were told.

Move along now, folks. No Islamic supremacism of any sort to see here.