Syag is right – no one is “bashing” or “hating”. We are bringing up issues that we have either encountered personally or learned about elsewhere (in my case it’s both). Messianics claim that they are the majority, and so-called “antis” claim that they are.
Chabad.org is run by many types of people, it is not monolithic, but even most messianics are smart enough not to advertise their beliefs to people who aren’t frum, that website’s main clientele. Also, I’m sure they’ve come to an agreement whereby they don’t deny or confirm the messianic message on their main website.
Many major chabad organizations are messianic. Can you explain why at the kinnus hashluchim, Moshe kotlarsky (vice president of chabad’s chinuch organization) said a corrupted version of veyehi noam as “”may the Rebbe look upon our gathering favorably, his presence is here with us now and may he grant our requests”
A prominent chabad rebbetzin named Leah Lipszyc said in a 98″ magazine called “horizons”:
“Rebbe,” I thought. “I know you’re here with us. I know you help people in difficult situations. I think this fits the criteria – please help us now. And do it quickly, please, before one of these guys snaps and decides to shoot.”
Shlomo cunin, head of west coast chabad, said in a video that the world will see “that it is the rebbe who runs the world”
The lubavitcher rebbe himself writes in toras menachem volume 1 162-163, that one should have no doubt that the rebbe is “the baal habayis of the world, can do anything” and that one should not think that one can “hide from him”. Granted this material is in parenthesis; i do not know if the rebbe himself actually wrote it, or if the man responsible for printing it included it, but either way it is found in the sefer, and not contested – maybe one of our chabad apologists can shed some light on this specific statement?
Either way, go to crown heights and see how many yarmulkahs have yechi on them if the above isn’t sufficient. I also know of chabad expatriates who say that even the “antis” (the fact that they identify themselves based on their non-affiliation with messianism is telling) really think that he’ll be moshiach when he returns, but that people aren’t “ready” for his “revelation”.