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Robert Spencer: The Roots of Islamic Anti-Semitism

Feb 27, 2017 2:29 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest in The Geller Report:

Anti-Semitism in Europe is at levels not seen since the heyday of Nazi Germany, and is growing more savage by the moment. Last week, i24News reported that “two French Jewish brothers were briefly abducted and abused by a group of men in a Paris suburb in an incident that ended with the brothers being beaten and attacked with a wood saw.” This is the new Europe, the same as the old Europe, because of Muslim immigration: the attackers were “a group of men described as having a Middle Eastern appearance.”

A group of men having a Middle Eastern appearance would have every reason, by their own lights, to abduct, beat, and attempt to mutilate two random Jews. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the wellbeing of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); as fabricating things and falsely ascribing them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); claiming that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); loving to listen to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah and never observing his commands (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more.

The classic Qur’anic commentators not do not mitigate the Qur’an’s words against Jews, but only add fuel to the fire. Ibn Kathir explained Qur’an 2:61 (“They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath of Allah”) this way: “This Ayah [verse] indicates that the Children of Israel were plagued with humiliation, and that this will continue, meaning that it will never cease. They will continue to suffer humiliation at the hands of all who interact with them, along with the disgrace that they feel inwardly.” Another Middle Ages commentator of lingering influence, Abdallah ibn Umar al-Baidawi, explains the same verse this way: “The Jews are mostly humiliated and wretched either of their own accord, or out of coercion of the fear of having their jizya [punitive tax] doubled.”

Ibn Kathir notes Islamic traditions that predict that at the end of the world, “the Jews will support the Dajjal (False Messiah), and the Muslims, along with ‘Isa [Jesus], son of Mary, will kill the Jews.” The idea in Islam that the end times will be marked by Muslims killing Jews comes from the prophet Muhammad himself, who said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’” This is, not unexpectedly, a favorite motif among contemporary jihadists.

Not just contemporary jihadists, but modern-day mainstream Islamic authorities take these passages seriously. The former Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, who was the most respected cleric in the world among Sunni Muslims, called Jews “the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs.” The late Saudi sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudayyis, imam of the principal mosque in the holiest city in Islam, Mecca, said in a sermon that Jews are “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.”

Another Saudi sheikh, Ba’d bin Abdallah al-Ajameh al-Ghamidi, made the connection explicit: “The current behavior of the brothers of apes and pigs, their treachery, violation of agreements, and defiling of holy places … is connected with the deeds of their forefathers during the early period of Islam–which proves the great similarity between all the Jews living today and the Jews who lived at the dawn of Islam.”

All this shows that leading Muslim authorities approach the Qur’an not as a document rooted in history, but as a blueprint for understanding the world today. Indeed, it is the primary blueprint for such understanding, and yet the one most persistently ignored by authorities. That’s why those authorities keep misunderstanding the rising problem of Islamic anti-Semitism, and are woefully ill-equipped to deal with it.

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  1. epistemology says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    Toda raba, dear Robert, thanks a lot. Spot on, you put everything right. I can only add that as a Jew living in today’s Europe you have to be more afraid of muzzies than of neo-Nazis, especially in Germany where the police protect you but when you report incidents with adherents of the religion of peace (TM) they keep telling xou that you’ve got to respect other cultures. I never disrespect other cultures, but I don’t respect uncivilized muzzies, something that fails to get into the mind of the police.

    Muzzies hate all the peole who aren’t like them, but most of all they hate Jews.

    • Wellington says

      Feb 27, 2017 at 7:58 pm

      Seconded, epistemology, from a non-Jew who is sick of anti-Semitism from whatever source——–and the Islamic source of this vicious and mindless hatred has a “track record” of some 1400 years.

      On a very related note, Israel is the only free polity in all of the Middle East and I concluded long, long ago that anyone who hates Israel has a broken moral compass, whatever the source. Israel is the canary in the coal mine of Western Civilization and one knows this or should know it. So, long live Israel. And I also have no time for one who avers that they are not anti-Jewish, only anti-Israel. Such a person is either deceiving others or himself since it is a distinction without a difference.

      Jew hatred is ALWAYS an indication of a lesser mind at work. Always.

      As ever I remain,

      Zionistically yours,

      Wellington

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 27, 2017 at 10:25 pm

        Seconded everything you wrote to Epistemology, Wellington.

        It breaks my heart–and makes me very, very angry–that Jewish people are once again being targeted in Europe. What ever happened to “Never Again”? Too many are ignoring it because the source is different than it was seventy-five years ago. Unconscionable.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 7:52 am

      Epistemology

      perhaps you may have to consider making aliyah; return to your traditional homeland – there in the eye of the storm, surrounded by the swirling maelstrom of the Jihad – and make your stand against Jihad there, alongside your people; but in so doing, in thus defending your homeland, setting an example to all the *other* peoples, including the various indigenous infidel tribes of Europe, who will have to make a stand against Jihad in *their* homelands.

    • Lukas says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 9:14 am

      Economic related conspiracy theory (the bankers mostly) espoused by several people including nonmuslims also further add fuel to the fire.

  2. marina says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 6:06 pm

    The prosperous Jews in Mo’s time didn’t cave in to his demands that they convert to Islam. Hence Mo hated them and killed an entire tribe , pillaged and took their women as slaves. Koran is full of Jew bashing which is Mo’s words anyway and muzlems follow it blindly and believe that Jews are the worst of people.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 27, 2017 at 10:49 pm

      All true. I think Mo assumed that his poaching superficial parts of Judaism would impress Jewish people, and that they would all immediately follow him. When they did not, he developed a murderous hatred of them for not falling for his bs.

  3. Angemon says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    Hmmmm, I wonder if islamic anti-semitism might have something to do with islam?…

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 4:18 am

      http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/hitlers-legacy-islamic-antisemitism-and-the-impact-of-the-muslim-brotherhood

  4. Matthieu Baudin says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    The anti-Jewish rantings of the Quoran, courtesy of the historically real or fictitious Mohammed, are matched in the modern period by the rantings of Uncle Adolf in Mein Kampf. What a diabolical mess we find ourselves in when we insist on respecting the spiritual authority of this old vicious book – the Quoran.

  5. gravenimage says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    Robert Spencer: The Roots of Islamic Anti-Semitism
    …………………….

    Anti-Semitism–*genocidal* Anti-Semitism–is orthodox Islam, and more and more Jews will suffer as the Muslim population grows–especially in Europe, where the Muslim population is skyrocketing.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 4:24 am

      This seems certain gravenimage.

  6. Elisha says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 12:11 am

    If only the muzzies had bothered to follow Satanallah’s (rather confusing) instructions in sura 4:136, 5:43,47, 10:94, 29:46, et al, then we may well not have the problems that exist today concerning anti semitism:

    Then the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I am EXCEEDINGLY JEALOUS FOR ZION, yes, WITH GREAT WRATH I AM JEALOUS FOR HER.’ “Thus says the LORD, ‘I WILL RETURN TO ZION and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’ – Zechariah 8:1-3

    “The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them. It shall be in that day that I WILL SEEK TO DESTROY ALL THE NATIONS THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM.” – Zechariah 12:7-9

    Oops!

    God bless.

  7. Pong says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 1:04 am

    Moslems have found fertile ground in Europe for their anti-semitism. Christian and islamic anti-semitism had been quite different, but now moslems adopted doctrines of christian anti-semitism into their own way of thinking. Protocols, prophets killing, world conspiracy, secret jewish societies – all that is new to islamic way of thinking. Many comments on other blogs are made by moslems with obvious influence of christian anti-semitism. Many moslems see christians as the allies against the jews and many christians look at moslems the same way. Europe has been very accommodating for islamic anti-semitism. There are decent christians, who understand the danger and support Israel and the jews, but they are a minority. Even now many Europeans think that the Jewish threat to the world is greater then the islamic one. Many don’t understand that intolerance to anti-semitism would have weakened islam more then anything else. In Europe islamic anti-semitism has actually strengthened the non-islamic one.

  8. Mark Swan says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 3:57 am

    Judah’s Descendants were promised a Line of Kings…Culminating in The Messiah (savior or liberator)…Mankind needed liberating…Satan held them captive reaching there minds through the spirit in mankind…a very Powerful Spirit Being…This Captor Views all Humans With Rage and Contempt…this captor would be particularly hateful to any people he associated with this liberator.

    Christ was born amongst the Jews…His Mother was One…He was One…The Greatest One…The Lion Of The Tribe of Judah…all Christ’s Apostles Were One…All of The Scriptures were written down exactly as God wanted by the Jews…and they so carefully guarded every detail of these writings…The Christian Church Started and was Headquartered in Jerusalem…Did God make a mistake, here, or was Christ born
    exactly where He was Supposed to be.

    From King David continuing on to The Christ… a Line of Kings…from Judah.

    Any claim to a throne would get Satan’s special attention…Christ sits on THE throne Satan covets the most…But Satan is Not The Almighty God Who Created Him and restrains Him even now…Christ Has All Authority Over All Things…He Is A Power Beyond Comparison…He is very much God…the demons know and tremble.

    Mankind’s unjustified strong hate of any kind, is, simply a product of minds
    influence by Thoughts Satan Broadcasts Through The Air Even Now…a Genius at
    Mind Ploys…If…We Entertain Those Thoughts, We think Like He does…He Is The Destroyer…The Enemy…and yes He really hates Jews too.

    • Vic says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 10:21 am

      Wow Mark Swan! Love your post…
      Yes, when one considers this renewed fervor in anti-semitism we also see are the historic ebb and flow of the spiritual battle for the souls of mankind from time immemorial. We can even trace the hatred all the way back to Eden…after the Fall God said He would put enmity between the Woman’s Seed and the Evil One’s seed. (Gen. 3:5) What seed was that? Jesus Christ, the Jew, the Savior of Mankind. The plan was laid out. See all the way to the Book of Revelation (Rev 12:1) “And a great sign appeared in heaven: a Woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars {Israel–remember Joseph’s dream} and she was with Child {Jesus Christ} and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth…. Vs 4: …and the Red Dragon stood before the Woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he would devour the Child; and she gave birth to a Son, a male Child, who is to rule the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His Throne. …vs 7: …and there was war in heaven, Michael {the defender of Israel} and his angels waging war with the dragon….and the great dragon was thrown down to the rear th along with h his angels. Vs 10: and I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, Now, the Salvation and the Power and the Kingdom of our God, and the Authority of His Christ has come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down… Vs 13: …and when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the Male Child. Vs 17…And the dragon was enraged with the Woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the Testimony of Jesus.”
      It’s great to know that we know the reason for the hatred and how we must stand in the Gap for Israel, our brethren. And we also know how the story ends. Shalom!

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 1:06 pm

      Vic thanks, I appreciate what you wrote as well. Shalom!

  9. Florida Jim says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 9:22 am

    This shows how wrong Mohammad was, he said “those who follow the Bible or Holy Word are good people and believe as we do” When and why did that change? The koran is a confusing book serving Satan and not Jesus Christ..Christ said Love they God and love thy neighbor as thyself how mush more clear can salvation be?

  10. mortimer says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 10:07 am

    The former Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, who was the most senior cleric in the world among Sunni Muslims, wrote his PhD dissertation on Jew hatred in the Koran.

    Any claim that ANTI-SEMITISM isn’t a CORE TEACHING of Islam is totally delusional if not intentional disinformation.

    ANTI-SEMITISM is indeed a CORE TEACHING of Islam. This is pure bigotry … and it supposedly comes from ‘Allah’ who previously made an ETERNAL COVENANT with Israel !!!

    We must conclude that ‘Allah’ is a god who SAYS ONE THING and DOES ANOTHER. When ‘Allah’ says ‘ETERNAL’, he actually means ‘TEMPORARY’.

  11. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 11:35 am

    The actual,real ,roots of Islamic Antisemitism reach back down to very foundation of Islam which is the Koran.As some other call this religious book which is the entire bases for and of Islam ,the Quran. Which instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. In other words the Koran inspires and causes such hideous violence. Furthermore, another role the Koran has in such deadly Islamic terror attacks in the Jewish nation of Israel is that the Koran contains many negative about the Jewish people. The reason that the Koran reads as it does have much to do with the history of the founder and prophet of Islam, who is Muhammad. This is for a specific time period of his life Muhammad lived among many Jewish people and he liked them at first. Later then they would not accept his claim of being of prophet, Muhammad then took is dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate for them. So in the hate and bitterness he spoke many derogatory things about the as even referring to them as “apes and swine.” Such word of bitterness and hate, along with other thing he said, where written down on things and then later after his death those words were together together and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Koran. Therefore, that why the Koran reads and in does about the Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Koran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60. Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that there is a chance the Muhammad actually might had been a prophet but the important thing to understand is that Muhammad was NOT a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a deceptive, lying false prophet send by Satan to lead many people astray and even and straight into hell. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned of the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. In addition, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [K.J.V.]

  12. David Hayden says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 12:28 pm

    I have spent many of my days reading, thinking, and writing about Islam since the morning of 9-11-2001. In 2008 I began to write a book with the title Muhammad and the Birth of Islamic Supremacism: The War With the Jews 622-628 A.D. I thoroughly covered Muhammad and his companions’ battles with the polytheists (Quraysh tribe of Medina) including the Battle of Badr, and the battles with the Jewish Banu Qurayza, Jewish Banu Nadir, and Jewish Banu Qurayza in Medina. In each case, Muhammad refers to the battles as defensive war from the Muslim point of view. I fundamentally disagree with Muhammad’s interpretation of these events. In each case, the stories written by the early Islamic biographers (Ishaq, Waqidi, Sa’d, al-Tabari and others, as well as the Hadith collectors like Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, convinced me that initiated these battles in order to further the advance of Islam for Allah (in his mind, of course, but not mine). If interested in reading a thorough analysis of these events, check out the book on amazon.com

    http://www.amazon.com/Muhammad-Birth-Islamic-Supremacism-622-628/dp/1937668975/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350764023&sr=8-1&keywords=muhammad+hayden

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