New York – Jewish leaders said they accept the apology of Glenn Beck, of New York-based Fox News, for a comment equating Reform Judaism and radical Islam.
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Beck apologized Thursday to the Reform Movement and Anti-Defamation League leaders for his statement two days earlier on his radio program, saying he had made “one of the worst analogies of all time,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Sunday.
Jewish Funds for Justice, a liberal group that calls for Beck’s censure for his misuse of Nazi comparisons, said the apology was “welcome but incomplete.”
“We reiterate our call on (Fox News chief) Rupert Murdoch to end Mr. Beck’s tenure at Fox News…. Anything short of this reflects an unwillingness to take seriously the harm Mr. Beck causes to many in our community and beyond,” the group said.
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Glenn Beck is nuts. No matter what you want to say against Reform Judaism (and there is a lot you can say), they are not at all like Radical Islamic terrorists. What is the point of that analogy??
Now he should apologise to the Radical Islamists as well.
Glenn Beck should apologize to the radical Islamist for insulting them!
Reform is not Judaism. Reform leaders lie to their followers and to everyone else and try to convince them that Reform is Judaism. It is not.
A better analogy: Reform is closer to secularism or to atheism.
glenn beck was absolutley right and im disappointed he caved in to pressure. The reform movement is like the islamic nuts in the sense that to both of them religion means nothing. The reforms could care less for Toras Moshe and the islamics could care less for their koran . they are both extremists at opposite ends of the spectrum. reform is extreme in its distance from the principles of the Torah and the islamics are extreme in their brutality.
How many more anti-Jewish remarks and insults will our community take from this dangeroud demagogue? I know he’s very proud to have been an alcoholic who never attended college, but he is the spokesman for the right wing, whose heart is black when it comes to their true feelings toward Zion.
They may accept Mr. Becks apology. Do we accept theirs? Corrupting the lives of the Jewish children of tomorrow is no more than jealousy of the True Torah Spirited.