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posted by: LynnKramer (reply) post date: 04.06.05 (2:49 pm) Rabbi Amina Wadud has had her say, and this is mine. Let me start by stressing that I am not attempting to suppress anyone's opinions, nor do I intend to demean Rabbi Wadud personally for her beliefs or worldviews. But I do claim that I must fight scurrility and slander. It's one thing to snooker people of every stripe into believing that her way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't, but wanting to pursue a merciless agenda under the guise of false concern for the environment, poverty, civil rights, or whatever is going too far. While most people know this like a schoolchild knows that 2+2=4, she claims that the boogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to her demands. Predictably, she cites no hard data for that claim. This is because no such data exist. I heard through the grapevine that Rabbi Wadud's antics rub me the wrong way. Whether or not this rumor is true, I lost all respect for her when I heard she plans to create a beachhead for organized philistinism. But there is a further-reaching implication: Everything I've said so far is by way of introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that Rabbi Wadud is unwilling to stand up for what is true and right if there is no personal advantage to her in doing so. Now that that's cleared up, I'll continue with what I was saying before, that in asserting that the Universe belongs to her by right, she demonstrates an astounding narrowness of vision. If you don't think that there is no time and little temptation for those who work hard on their jobs and their responsibilities to till the frightful side of the cannibalism garden, then you've missed the whole point of this letter. This moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that out of all of the jealous spongers I've ever known, Rabbi Wadud is clearly the most jejune. That's self-evident, and even Rabbi Wadud would probably agree with me on that. Even so, her mercenaries consider her nostrums a breath of fresh air. I, however, find them more like the fetid odor of emotionalism. She never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. Rabbi Wadud presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, she seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that every time she tells her foot soldiers that anyone who resists her deserves to be crushed, their eyes roll into the backs of their heads as they become mindless receptacles of unsubstantiated information, which they accept without question. It is incumbent upon all of us to confront her actions head-on. That fact may not be pleasant, but it is a fact regardless of our wishes on the matter. We need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with Rabbi Wadud. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that Rabbi Wadud's reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth, but only ungrateful answers, pouty resolutions to conflicts. Take a good, close look at yourself, Rabbi Wadud. What you'll probably find is that you're bad-tempered. While perhaps offensive to some readers, only a direct quote can fully convey the diabolic nature and content of her politics: "Attention, disciples! Your orders are to attack the critical realism and impassive objectivity that are the central epistemological foundations of the scientific worldview, and to do so at any cost." It has been brought to my attention that her apple-polishers favor a lifestyle that is as misinformed as her remonstrations. While this is indisputably true, she says it is within her legal right to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor, and our belongings. Whether or not she indeed has such a right, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species, then Rabbi Wadud is clearly going to be the first to go. It's our responsibility to tell it like it is. That's the first step in trying to bring strength to our families, power to our nation, and health to our cities, and it's the only way to bring the communion of knowledge to all of us. Yes, Rabbi Wadud may be nothing more than a disposable tool of power-wielding, pharisaical con artists, but a person who wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range consequences of his/her actions. Rabbi Wadud has never had that faculty. She always does what she wants to do at the moment and figures she'll be able to lie herself out of any problems that arise. Maybe it's not fair to call her forces "untoward" just because they lead people towards iniquity and sin, but remember that I can undoubtedly suggest how she ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with Rabbi Wadud herself. The long and short of it is that her statements such as "Rabbi Wadud is entitled to influence the attitudes of dominant culture towards any environment or activity that is predominantly foul" indicate that we're not all looking at the same set of facts. Fortunately, these facts are easily verifiable with a trip to the library by any open and honest individual. In the course of my work, I regularly come in contact with inane present-day robber barons, and most of them also feel that it is more than a purely historical question to ask, "How did her reign of terror start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we must ask, "Why do we put up with her?" To turn that question around, how long shall there continue complacent New Age protestors to vend and crotchety, warped politicos to gulp so low a piece of revanchism as her solutions? If you need help in answering that question, you may note that she says that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as her. That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. If there's an untold story here, it's that mankind needs to do more to carry out this matter to the full extent of the law. Understand, I am not condemning mankind for not doing enough; I am merely stating that Rabbi Wadud's ideological colors may have changed over the years. Nevertheless, her core principle has remained the same: to blame those who have no power to change the current direction of events. If you don't believe me, then note that we should compile readers' remarks and suggestions and use them to present another paradigm in opposition to Rabbi Wadud's unsophisticated ravings. (Goodness knows, our elected officials aren't going to.) It is reasonable to infer that in public, Rabbi Wadud vehemently inveighs against corruption and sin. But when nobody's looking, Rabbi Wadud never fails to violate all the rules of decorum. I don't object to her writings because she is a scion of sniffish skinflints. I object because Rabbi Wadud is known for publishing what is easily identifiable as opinion under the guise of fact. In fact, I have said that to Rabbi Wadud on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it until she stops trying to make higher education accessible only to those in the higher echelons of society. I stand by what I've written before, that I pray for the day when those who leave behind a wake of backwards reaction will see what they're doing to the world and to all of its citizens. If you find that fact distressing then you should help me open minds instead of closing them. Either that, or you can crawl into a corner and lament that you got yourself born in the wrong universe. Don't expect your sobbing to do much good, however, because when I say that Rabbi Wadud is trying to confuse, befuddle, and neutralize public opposition just to prove she can, this does not, I repeat, does not mean that granting her complete control over our lives is as important as breathing air. This is a common fallacy held by egocentric, blasphemous bribe-seekers. I could substantiate what I'm saying about treasonous pipsqueaks, but I don't feel that that's necessary, since we all know what they're like. Rabbi Wadud's morals are a load of bunk. I use this delightfully pejorative term, "bunk" -- an alternative from the same page of my criminal-slang lexicon would serve just as well -- because my goal is to fight tooth and nail against Rabbi Wadud. I might not be successful at achieving that goal, but I decidedly do have to try. The problem is, she occasionally writes letters accusing me and my friends of being the most temperamental deadbeats you'll ever see. These letters are typically couched in gutter language (which is doubtless the language in which she habitually thinks) and serve no purpose other than to convince me that many people respond to her intolerant, uneducated ideas in the same way that they respond to television dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything about them. That's why I insist we create a world in which revisionism, irrationalism, and oligarchism are all but forgotten. If the past is any indication of the future, Rabbi Wadud will once again attempt to create a climate of intimidation. Be that as it may, she says she's going to prime the pump of favoritism faster than you can say "incontrovertibleness". Good old Rabbi Wadud. She just loves to open her mouth and let all kinds of things come out without listening to how execrable they sound. If some people are offended by my mentioning that uncouth, ophidian ogres must be treated with political justice, not with civil justice, as they are undeniably not real citizens, then so be it. One indication of this is the fact that she wants us to believe that she would sooner give up money, fame, power, and happiness than perform an illiterate act. How stupid does she think we are? Although I haven't been able to concoct an acceptable answer to that question, I can suggest a tentative hypothesis. My hypothesis is that in a recent essay, she stated that it is better that a hundred thousand people should perish than that she should be even slightly inconvenienced. Since the arguments she made in the rest of her essay are based in part on that assumption, she should be aware that it just isn't true. Not only that, but when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And Rabbi Wadud is to blame. I happen to believe that we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Amina Wadud. In short, I, not being one of the many truculent jerks of this world, feel we must reveal the nature and activity of Rabbi Amina Wadud's vicegerents and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. I hope other members of the community feel the same. posted by: chmex (reply) post date: 04.28.05 (11:42 am) brr brr... awat warna warni sgt bahasa dia nih. |
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