You Can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time--and a Gullible Interfaithy Jew All of the Time

Interfaith maven Rabbi Marc Schneier, a man who has apparently never heard of such things as da'wa, jihad, sharia and the ever-popular-never-goes-out-of-style taqiyyah (or, if he has heard of them, has, for the sake of interfaith comity, decided to ignore them), is mega-impressed by Muslims who tell him stuff he wants to hear. From the JPost:

...(T)he successes we have achieved in building ties of friendship and trust are authentic. We have inspired Muslim and Jewish leaders to speak out in defense of the other.

For example, Imam Shamsi Ali, spiritual leader of the largest and most prominent mosque in New York, with whom I am coauthoring a book on Judaism and Islam, made unmistakably clear that the Jewish-Muslim alliance we have worked so hard to create is, in reality, a two-way street. Shortly after the murderous terror attack against the Fogel family in Itamar, Ali issued a widely disseminated statement strongly condemning the attack and emphasizing, “We expect all decent people to unequivocally condemn this brutality. There is no way to contextualize this outrageous crime. Political differences never justify terrorism.”

The fact that a prominent Muslim cleric would speak out so unequivocally against a terror attack on Israelis in such a public fashion and without reservation is an important example of the willingness of top Muslim leaders to speak out for Jews in a manner that almost never occurred before we began our coalitionbuilding efforts five years ago.

Another example of the same important trend came earlier this month by another important ally of ours in the effort to strengthen Muslim-Jewish relations: Dr. Sayyid Sayeed, national director of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the largest and most prestigious Muslim organization in the US and Canada.

After representatives of both Hamas and Fatah each issued vile statements on March 1 calling the Holocaust a “lie” and vowing to prevent teaching about it to Palestinian youngsters in UN-sponsored schools in Gaza, Sayeed immediately sent me a letter condemning Holocaust denial and declaring his support for young Muslims all over the world who want to become better educated concerning the bitter realities of the Holocaust.

To quote directly from Sayeed: “We at ISNA reiterate our position denouncing Holocaust denial, and we support any efforts toward teaching students the horrific consequences of this great human tragedy.”

SUCH EXPRESSIONS of Muslim sympathy are not confined to the US. Last December in Brussels, Imam Abduljalil Sajid of Britain, European representative of World Council of Muslims Interfaith Relations, opened his remarks at the first annual Gathering of European Muslim and Jewish Leaders organized by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and World Jewish Congress with a prayer dedicated to the victims of the Carmel fire in December...

Of course, ISNA, a Muslim Brotherhood creation, was an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal trial re the plot to siphon charity money to Hamas (another Muslim Bro creation), and the British iman, when not saying pretty interfaithy things, is apt to downplay the threat of extremism and expressed support for the Australian imam who compared uncovered women to slabs of meat, but no matter. As long as Schneier's "friends" are on board with the snooker the kafir interfaith effort, they're okey-dokey with me!