Andrew Bostom has just completed a new collection of resource material, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism. I have seen it, and it is fantastic work, definitively laying to rest the common canard that Islamic antisemitism is an import from Christianity, and has no roots in the Qur'an or Islamic tradition.
In this American Thinker piece, he uses a bit of the massive amount of material he has gathered to evaluate the curious incident of Dr. Walid Fataihi, his inflammatory words after 9/11, and his more recent apology:
Two months after the mass murdering acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/01, Dr. Walid Fataihi, director of "outreach" for the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), who still serves on the ISB Board of Directors, boasted that this carnage engendered two related "successes" -enhanced Muslim proselytization efforts, and damage to Christian-Jewish relations in the U.S.Fitaihi crowed,
"...the Muslim community in the U.S. in general, and in Boston in particular, has begun to trouble the Zionist lobby."He continued triumphantly, quoting the Koran (3:112/ 2:61 (see also this).
The words of the Koran on this matter are true: "They [the Jews] will be humiliated wherever they are found, unless they are protected under a covenant with Allah, or a covenant with another people. They [the Jews] have incurred Allah's wrath and they have been afflicted with misery. That is because they continuously rejected the Signs of Allah and were after slaying the Prophets without just cause, and this resulted from their disobedience and their habit of transgression." The great Allah spoke words of truth. Their covenant with America is the strongest possible in the U.S., but it is weaker than they think, and one day their covenant with the [American] people will be cut off.During a private meeting with some 25 lay and religious leaders convened at the Workmen's Circle in Brookline, Massachusetts on April 6, 2007-nearly 5 ½ years later-Fitaihi was reported to have offered a belated apology for his November 11, 2001 remarks. The dubious sincerity of this putative act of contrition aside-it occurred as the ISB is embroiled in a bitter and debilitating legal dispute with members of the local Jewish community-did Fitaihi actually apologize for invoking Koran 3:112/2:61, and their virulently antisemitic contents?
But did he really apologize? Read it all.
Andrew Bostom is an awesone scholar.
Taqiyya apologies for naive suckers.
Works every time.
Mohammad-tested.
Treaty of Hudaibiyah, ho!
You may not be able to tell a book by its cover but Boston has certainly chosen a striking illustration for his dust-jacket: 'The Execution of a Moroccan Jewess' painted by the French artist Dehodencq in the high romantic manner of 1860. He also supplies, with documentation, the grim story on which the painting is based.
If the romantics often over-exoticised the Muslim world, paintings like this and Delacroix's 'Massacre at Scios' show that you would not have got away with any drivel about Islam being a religion of peace, with them.
I read Bostom's piece on the American Thinker. Just want to recommend on this particular subject Carlo Panella's Il 'Complotto Ebraico'. This book is a survey of Islamic Judeophobia, in particular the "Jewish conspiracy" notion. He also discusses the problem of the so-called Islamic Declaration of Human Rights, which denies human rights, in principle. Panella also wrote an excellent summary of the problem of Pakistan in the Italian daily Il Foglio shortly after the 7-7-2005 bombings in London. By the way, Cecil Roth, the famous British-Jewish historian wrote about Muslim oppression of Jews during the controversy over reestablishing a Jewish state in the Land of Israel in the mid-1940s.
Mohammad, the pedophile "prophet", beheaded about 900 Jewish men in an oasis of tolerance in the 7th century.
Their women he only raped (then either forced into fake "marriages" or permanent servitude).
Their children he merely sold off into Allah-approved slavery.
Good thing anti-semitism had nothing to do with it.
Khaybar-baric.
just remember big Mo said war is deceit and it was okay to use Taqiyya when Muslims are weaker than their opponents so I would not take his apology without is taking a lie detector test
O/T:
Did anyone notice the Google ads in the box underneath Dr Bostom's name?
I see four ads, two of which are "The harmonious relationship between science and The Qur'an" and "How to convert and become a Muslim with Live Help by chat." Words fail me.
I've seen some atrocious Google search results in my day, but this is a riot.
Islam's Koran - Hate Quotes
The Koran instructs not to make friendship with Jews and Christians (Koran 5:51) but to war against them: "When the Sacred Months are over, kill those who ascribe partners to God wheresoever ye find them; seize them, encompass them, and ambush them; then if they repent and observe prayer and pay the alms, let them go their way (Koran 4:5).
"Fight against those who believe not in God nor in the Last Day, who... refuse allegiance to the True Faith from among those who have received the Book, until they humbly pay tribute out of hand." (Koran 9:29)]
"...kill the disbelievers wherever we find them" (Koran 2:191);
"fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem" (Koran 9:5);
"murder them and treat them harshly" (Koran 9:123).
"Seize ye him, and bind ye him, And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire. Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits! This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High. And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent! So no friend hath he here this Day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds, Which none do eat but those in sin." (Koran 69:30-37)
"Strike off the heads of the disbelievers"; and after making a "wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives" (Koran 47:4).
"Instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers"; "smite above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them" (Koran 8:12; cp. 8:60).
"O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern against them. Their abode is Hell - an evil refuge indeed" (Koran 9:73).
"slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace..." (Koran 5:34).
"for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods" (Koran 22:19-22)
Certainly not the Religion Of Peace and Tolerance as they tell non-Muslims!Boycott All Muslim Countries & Businesses & Goods!
see:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
The American Thinker website seems to have been hijacked by some commercial entity.
A WHOIS lookup says that the registration for americanthinker.com expired on 4-23-2007.
Uh-oh.