[ April 26, 2024 ]
Hamakom synagogue, a conservative congregation in Los Angeles, has just gotten a bracing introduction to the reality beneath the surface of efforts at “outreach” and “dialogue”: it leased its facility to a local Muslim group, only to have it host a viciously anti-Israel speaker who has refused to condemn Hamas and likened the Jewish state to National Socialist Germany. Yeah, tensions are really eased now.
The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that Hamakom “axed its leadership and is struggling to retain members” after leasing its main facility to the Islamic Society of West Valley. The synagogue “entered into an agreement with the Islamic Society that allowed it to take over the synagogue’s main campus, pushing Jewish members onto a smaller satellite branch.
The synagogue leadership did this in the hopes it would build bridges with Muslims in Los Angeles: “In this time of rising anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,” synagogue leaders told the congregation, “it is incumbent upon us to reach out to strengthen the bonds between religious communities in our neighborhood, recognizing there is more that unites us than divides us.” Almost immediately, however, their starry-eyed hopes of bridging the gap of centuries of hatred and suspicion, and showing the Muslims of Los Angeles that Jews weren’t really “the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe,” as the Qur’an says (5:82), were dashed.
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Yet Hamakon gave its all to this effort. The synagogue leadership allowed the Muslims to use the building every night, while the Jews themselves “would only be allowed to worship in two rooms from 8 p.m. to midnight. Evening programs and Friday night Sabbath services were also relocated to a smaller site also owned by the synagogue.” Even worse, “in anticipation of the lease’s commencement, the synagogue’s leadership covered up pictures of Israeli hostages captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel.”
Yes, you read that right. It wasn’t the mosque that covered up the pictures of Israeli hostages. It was the synagogue leadership, showing that they were so avid to build bridges with the Muslim group that they were willing to abandon their own principles and basic standards of human decency to do so.
The Islamic Society of West Valley, in contrast, was not so eager to abandon its own beliefs in order to make friends with the Jews. “Soon after the Islamic Society began using Hamakom’s facility, it hosted anti-Israel activist Hussam Ayloush, who said last year that Israel did not have a right to defend itself following the Oct. 7 attack and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.” Even worse, years ago I myself was on a radio show with Ayloush, the top dog of the Los Angeles chapter of the the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). I repeatedly challenged him to condemn Hamas and Hizballah. He steadfastly refused.
The Ayloush appearance led to outrage among members of the synagogue, with the anger growing so great that Hamakom ultimately severed its arrangement with the Islamic Society. The leaders of the synagogue have resigned, and Hamakom is promising a “thorough internal review to understand the missteps taken and to implement corrective measures.”
That’s great, but it’s unlikely that this internal review is going to be deep or honest enough to uncover the real problem. Jews in Los Angeles (and elsewhere, of course) have been reaching out to Muslims for years, without any reciprocal action from the Muslims. As far back as 2012, the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles canceled a speech by human rights activist Pamela Geller; Geller remarked that the Federation had “cravenly submitted to Islamic supremacists who wanted to suppress free speech.”
Indeed. In its story on the cancellation, the Los Angeles Times quoted none other than Hussam Ayloush, who said all the things that he knew the leftist Times and its equally leftist audience would want to hear. Geller, he claimed, was a “fringe speaker.” He added: “We will not be affected by the noise of people who hopefully become more and more irrelevant. Unfortunately, outrageous rhetoric gets attention because it’s outrageous, and Pamela Geller knows that very well.”
The “outrageous rhetoric” to which Ayloush referred had to do with Geller sounding the alarm about the necessity of awakening to the reality of Islamic jihad. Meanwhile, here is some genuinely outrageous rhetoric: “For 75 years, every single day for the Palestinian people had been October 7.” Let’s see. In 1950, the population of Gaza was 63,444. Now it is estimated to be over 800,000. Have the Israelis really been going into Gaza and carrying out orgies of murder and rape every day for 75 years? Hamas jihadis murdered 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023. If Israel did the same thing every day in Gaza, 32,850,000 people would have been killed.
Who made this preposterous and incendiary claim? Hussam Ayloush. Ayloush was speaking at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, and clearly was trying to stir up his hearers to hate Israel and be willing to support the jihad against it. Ayloush isn’t interested in building bridges; he is interested in blowing them up (figuratively!).
Or if he is interested in outreach, it is in order to bring people to Islam. “Building bridges” is also a frequently enunciated goal of CAIR. Such bridges, however, are really just proselytizing mechanisms to convert the Christians to Islam, not an attempt to engage in genuine dialogue — as the Muslim Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb explained: “The chasm between Islam and Jahiliyyah [the society of unbelievers] is great, and a bridge is not to be built across it so that the people on the two sides may mix with each other, but only so that the people of Jahiliyyah may come over to Islam.”
So on the one side, we have a coarse and brutish propagandist spreading blood libels against the Jews. On the other side, we have leftist Jews so anxious to be friendly to Muslims that they give over their premises to a mosque that brings in this same hateful propagandist to speak. What’s wrong with this picture? If leftist Jews in Los Angeles had listened to what Pamela Geller was trying to tell them in 2012, they wouldn’t be in this fix.
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39 Comments
D
1 month ago
I’ve heard of keeping your enemies close, but that’s a bit extreme.
1 month ago
Dumb, VERY dumb.
1 month ago
Reply to
Afbratboomer
They were probably mapping out the interior for a future massacre.
1 month ago
We must once and for all understand the following simple fact: There is no integral Jewish religion other than Orthodox Judaism.
1 month ago
Reply to
Martin1818
Leftist/liberal Jews suffer from the same delusions about Islam as many Christians do. The “religion of peace”makes it very clear about what they believe and will do to unbelievers.
Last edited 1 month ago by Turtlebrat
1 month ago
This is like giving Muslims Gaza to ease tensions.
D
1 month ago
Reply to
Zeus
And that’s EXACTLY what Israel did, and this is what they got for being nice to scum!
1 month ago
“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely.“
– Winston Churchill
They think they’re buying favor but only receive contempt in return.
Islam is a death-cult that has nothing but contempt for everything. They think they are superior.
Last edited 1 month ago by Eric Arthur Blair
1 month ago
Reply to
Eric Arthur Blair
As did the true Nazi’s, Emperial Japanese, CCP now and Communist worldwide = an antiChrist mentallity for WE all on Earth have the same blood type = human and in spirit Created in Gods image…!
1 month ago
APPEASEMENT WORKED FOR HITLER, RIGHT? You idiots.
1 month ago
Reply to
CLEARLY101
Well it worked for Stalin, Mao, Castro, PolPot & Un’s as WE now have built Red China a massive military via U.s. dollars…!
Of course the D-Rats have always been soft on Communism…!
1 month ago
After Hitler became chancellor of Germany and gave a speech at the end of January 1933. He railed on in his anti-Semitic manor however many Jewish educators and intellectuals said his anti-Semitic rhetoric was nothing more than political theater to please and placate his base. Nothing to see here move along, move along. The more the Jews try to sacrifice their babies to crocodiles the closer the crocodiles will get.
1 month ago
The only way there will be peace with islam is when they are all dead. Sorry, but it is true. It is in their holy book convert or kill. They tell everyone what they will do to unbelievers especially Jews. I knew a rabbi who also let them use the space in his house of worship – not smart. It’s like the frog who wanted to cross a river and a ‘gator said hop into my mouth and I will carry you across. The ‘gator did so – ate the frog and carried him in his stomach.
Last edited 1 month ago by Turtlebrat
1 month ago
Reply to
turtlebrat
Yes tho 90+% are merely born in it and dare not leave under Honor Killing = its the head of the snake thats poison and the Globalist cabal is merely using them to help keep the West destabalized…!
Once the Christian Wests foundations crumble the Globalist monetary controlling cabal plan on cutting off the Muslim snakes head once no longer useful…!
They had JFK murdered & lots more if becoming a direct threat…!
1 month ago
Why the Jews who are supposedly so smart are so f’n STUPID at the same time?
1 month ago
Reply to
Lysy
Good question and I have asked it myself. Seems like many of the Jewish people want peace and many are removed from their Semitic origins and do not really know or understand the Semitic muslim mind. The koran should be required reading for every Christian and Jew in order to know thy enemy. All I know is that if I see a poisonous snake near me that could bite me I kill it. Self-preservation is a must. If an enemy is taught to kill since infancy it is a fool’s errand to try to make peace with them. Many Jews are too far removed from their Semitic Hebrew roots and are “liberal” and cannot understand the hatred that their neighbors bear towards them that cannot be changed and that the only peace the palis want is the peace of the dead Jews. Maybe a re-reading of the Jewish Bible would remind the Jewish People of their history and the necessity to fight to preserve their lives.
1 month ago
Reply to
Lysy
One of the reasons (there are many if you understand the brutal history of Israel where every nation on earth over 4,000 years has tried to eradicate them from the planet…today, out of 8 billion people on earth, there are only 15 million Jews, attesting to that 4,000 year campaign to destroy the Jews of the world) is called Stockholm Syndrome where some people who have been held captive for a long time mentally regress, or something, and start to like their captors…look it up.
But I’m happy to say that their Messiah and our Saviour (one and the same) is about to re-enter our space and time tio bring his long prophesied judgmentsa on this evil, sinful world. (And if you don’t agree with me, expalin all the evil happening right now around the globe. You can start with the global famine the WEF is orchestrating as we speak).
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus…………..
1 month ago
Typical of the calipornican Jews. Boxer and feinstein would do the same thing. The same thing will most likely happen in Naw yawk
Last edited 1 month ago by Snowedin
1 month ago
Back in the 1930’s these dumb-cucks would have rented the synagogue out to NAZI brownshirts.
1 month ago
Why do my Jewish people make mistakes like this so often. Jews can be very subtle and sophisticated in their thinking, at the same they seem to have blind spots regarding the presence of enemies, of anti-Semitism—especially American Jews!
1 month ago
Reply to
Jeff
They apparently bought the garbage of liberalism instead of reading the Bible and learning their history. IMHO Jesus spoke of peace as a way to survive the Roman occupation and the result of fighting was their removal from the Holy Land. Maybe that explains the search for peace? The Biblical Hebrews fought and won many times and the Israelis have that mindset and King David is my example. In America many seem to not have that but some still do. I belonged to a gun club called Palmach in my youth that my WW II vet father took me to. Note that the JDL and Meyer Kahane are gone. Many have bought the commie leftist mindset instead of fighting for survival. Seeking peace is a good goal but if one fights then one gets the Lord’s help and does survive. Peace is cherished but to a muslim the only peace they seek is the peace of dead Jews. Every time I deal with a liberal Jew I want to puke at their suicidal stupidity. My parents taught me well and their ancestors fled Europe well before the Holocaust but many Jews still have learned nothing. Obtaining peace thru strength is the only way but the accent is on strength. I admire the African-Americans who will not tolerate racism and back it up with strength.
Last edited 1 month ago by Turtlebrat
1 month ago
Wait until their “renters “cut their throats. Ridiculous is to say less.
1 month ago
There is no peace with someone who wants you dead. Islam is a death cult, not a religion. I still don’t see what people have against the horse I rode in on.
1 month ago
Can anyone point me to an example of any attempt to “build bridges” with muslims that has been successful (for both parties, that is – not just for the muslims) ? Please – a link to the news article will be appreciated.
D
1 month ago
Reply to
RJN1787
Can’t as they want you converted, sunjective, or DEAD!!!! The only good muslim is a dead muslim and until the last one is dead the world will be in turmoil!!!
1 month ago
Why? You can’t negotiate with evil! Have they lost their minds?
1 month ago
What could possibly go wrong. The Trump snake story applies here. Why are so many Jews that naive when it comes to their own survival. Islam hates us and befriending them only invites disaster
1 month ago
Jews just never learn. They think treating their enemy with kindness will be returned. Yet they always get spit in and smacked down. For a smart people they sure are dumb time after time.
As a Jew it amazes me how often they try to curry favor with those who hate them.
1 month ago
Liberal Jews who are stupid. Don’t they understand that they’re born to hate Jews. These are the Soros, Sanders and Schumer Jews etc. working with Satan.
1 month ago
As Ms, Geller often says, simply as case of “Jewicide.” This line of thinking is what led the Jews to the camps and killing fields of Europe.
1 month ago
Deportation and a life ban on entering the USA is what is required for all these clerics and congregations. Enough is enough.
D
1 month ago
“You can’t fix stupid!”
1 month ago
Keep on voting Democrat.
1 month ago
This is absolute PROOF, you can’t fix STUPID.
GOD BLESS ISRAEL.
Get rid of the RABID SWINE.
D
1 month ago
The Jews are no better than any libturd dumocraps as all of them believe that buying off the parasitic feral animal criminal muslims will stop them from attacking and killing them. Just can’t fix STUPID with the morons!!!! The only good muslim is a dead muslim!
1 month ago
I understand the brutal history of Israel, I understand Stockholm Syndrome and even after making allownace for all those two issues imply, I have to agree with John Wayne when he said “Life is tough…it’s even tougher when your stupid”.
“The synagogue leadership did this in the hopes it would build bridges with Muslims in Los Angeles”. Yeah, lets let Hitler use our conference center for his speeches. ‘Sure, sounds like a great idea. Maybe he will soften his stand if he sees what nice people we are”.
Sorry folks, I love the Jewish people. They are truly God’s Chosen people and He does have a plan for them in these last days, but this ‘leadership’ (what are they leading ?) is so far beyond ignorant (which is OK…it can be fixed with education) that they have to be in the Twilight Zone of stupid.
Somebody help them. Lord, send them a bolt of lightening to de-program whatever has programmed them to think like this. And help them to realize that their Messiah already came once and is due anytime now for the second time. They desperately need a Saviour, a Messiah, Yeshuah Hamashiach, to come and rescue them.
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus………
