Why praise Fadlallah
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has got it right on all the fawning Western treatment of Imam Fadlallah. Why are so many literate Westerners grieving over Fadlallah's death?Indeed. It's high time the Arab and Muslim world were held to the same standards as everyone else.
The answer lies in the hidden contempt shown by many apologists on the left for Arabs and Islam. As a rabbi I see my Arab brothers as my unqualified equals in every respect and Islam as a godly religion. I therefore hold both to the very same standards I hold for myself and my faith.
But then there are those who treat Arab regimes as inherently uncivilized and Islam as a primitive religion, such that even the slightest deviation on the part of a Muslim cleric from genocidal terror suddenly makes him into a saint and a progressive. For people like Guy, Nasr and Friedman, an imam like Fadlallah who wants to kill Americans and Israelis but who is unexpectedly nice to women has taken a giant leap forward from the Dark Ages, deserving respect and praise.
This attitude is, of course, not only deeply amoral and patronizing nonsense but historically false.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:43 PM
3 Comments:
While I agree that there is a huge amount of the "bigotry of low expectations" being practiced in regards to Arab/Muslim countries, I also refuse to disallow the fact that many antisemites just like him because he killed Jews.
That's not going to happen. I don't believe Islam is capable of a Reformation. The only way that would happen is if Islam was thoroughly defeated. That's not in the cards any time soon.
http://prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes_Jews.Islam
Rabbis really need to start reading the Quran, the Hadith, and the Sira [the above link contains quotes specific to just the topic of "Jews"; mind blowing].
Hitler was more favorable of the Jews than Islamic text is.
How does one deal with "religious Nazis"?
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