At the 2003 memorial for slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam who wants to build a community center in lower Manhattan that fringe conservatives call the Ground Zero Mosque, sought to comfort a religiously diverse crowd. To Pearl’s Jewish father, he said:
We are here to assert the Islamic conviction of the moral equivalency of our Abrahamic faiths. If to be a Jew means to say with all one’s heart, mind and soul Shma` Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu Adonai Ahad; hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One, not only today I am a Jew, I have always been one, Mr. Pearl.
If to be a Christian is to love the Lord our God with all of my heart, mind and soul, and to love for my fellow human being what I love for myself, then not only am I a Christian, but I have always been one Mr. Pearl.
You probably read Rauf’s comments as an expression of sympathy meant to communicate a universal message of peace, unity and non-violence. It almost looks like Rauf was emphasizing the common values which underpin three of the world’s great religions. You are of course, wrong.
Per Glenn Beck’s new “news and information” website, TheBlaze.com and its crack reporter Jonathon M. Seidl, we now know that Rauf is nothing but a fraud.
Ladies and gentlemen, TheBlaze.com’s first big scoop:
Experts confirm: It is, in fact, impossible to be a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim all at the same time. Rauf’s a liar!
Lest you think I’m making this up, please, by all means, go and read Seidl’s story for yourself. Here’s the front page:
You don’t get to be an ace front page reporter for Glenn Beck’s website without knowing your stuff.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a migraine.
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