My latest at the Geller Report:
Fake news is a big problem today: see Time Magazine’s vicious new cover. But fake news also extends to rewriting history to influence public policy today.
In the course of denying the Holocaust in a speech last month, as reported by MEMRI, Kuwaiti Muslim cleric Sheikh Jihad Al-‘Ayesh claimed that Hitler began “tormenting and persecuting” because he “knew the truth” about them: “The Jews were banished, tortured and annihilated because of their deeds. They were not banished for being Jews.” He added: “There were Jews in the Islamic countries and caliphates as well, but we never killed them just for being Jews. No, it never happened.” Yet it did. And if we fail to remember this today, we will, as the old adage goes, be condemned to repeat it.
When Al-‘Ayesh says that Muslims never killed Jews just for being Jews, he is lying, and relying on the historical ignorance of his audience. In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I detail many instances in which Muslims did exactly that. In 1013, Berbers from North Africa entered Spain and took Córdoba in 1013, they began massacring Jews, and initiated a wholesale slaughter of Jews in Granada. And again in 1066, rioting Muslims, enraged by the humiliation of a Jew who had been appointed to rule over Muslims, murdered four thousand Jews in Granada. The twelfth century Muslim historian Ibn Baydhaq detailed how the Almohads treated the Jews as they advanced:
Abd al-Mumin…the leader of the Almohads after the death of Muhammad ibn Tumart the Mahdi…captured Tlemcen [in the Maghreb] and killed all those who were in it, including the Jews, except those who embraced Islam…. [In Sijilmasa] one hundred and fifty persons were killed for clinging to their [Jewish] faith…. All the cities in the Almoravid state were conquered by the Almohads. One hundred thousand persons were killed in Fez on that occasion, and 120,000 in Marrakesh. The Jews in all [Maghreb] localities [conquered]…groaned under the heavy yoke of the Almohads; many had been killed, many others converted; none were able to appear in public as Jews.
The likes of Jihad Al-‘Ayesh don’t want you to know this, and much more about the sorry history of Islamic antisemitism, because of the jihad against the modern-day State of Israel. Revisionist history is designed to influence the contemporary debate. The more that Al-‘Ayesh can convince Muslims today that Jews in the Holocaust got nothing but what they deserved, and had responded with ingratitude to kindness shown them through the ages, the more he and his allies can justify the “Palestinian” genocidal rhetoric and fanatical hatred that targets Israelis every day.
The advocates of the “Palestinian” jihad also get support from their holy book. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are 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. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
The antidote to the propaganda that the believers in that hatred and incitement pump out on a regular basis is the truth. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived by the likes of Jihad Al-‘Ayesh. Click here to preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
Fedup says
Whenever a muslim opens his mouth we know he’s lying. Lying is something prescribed for them in their quran if it means it will further their agenda.
J D S says
This Kuwaiti muslim cleric should zIp his mouth and be glad he is not under the thumb of Sadam…The gulf war saved Kuwait and maybe him also.p
John says
Agreed! Anything is moral and encouraged if it furthers the cause of Islam. Treaties are made, with no intention of being honored. They are made to deceive, or buy time for military advantage. DECEPTIONS ARE MORAL, FOR MUSLIMS.
Rarely says
I get it now. The Nazis and muslims didn’t kill Jews for just being Jews but for the evil things Jews do. How many Jews do evil things in the diseased minds of these mental midgets? Why ALL of them, of course.
How ridiculous to suggest the Nazis killed +/- 6,000,000 Jews in the Holocaust? By the way we will kill the 6,000,000 Jews in Israel and the other 8,000,000 scattered around the World if we get the chance. But the Holocaust never happened.
What are these evils? Why everything bad that happens in the World, even natural disasters. Why the Mossad even trains sharks to attack Egypt’s beaches and Israel applies chemicals to blue jeans that make men impotent before sending them to Egypt. Jews are even behind ISIS.
How can anyone argue against such flawless logic?
gravenimage says
Spot on, Rarely.
Indiana Tom says
Why the Mossad even trains sharks to attack Egypt’s beaches
But do the sharks have lasers on their heads?
DogOnPorch says
Islam promotes lying to further the faith.
Indiana Tom says
Muslim cleric Sheikh Jihad Al-‘Ayesh claimed that Hitler began “tormenting and persecuting” because he “knew the truth” about them:
Nazism and Islam ran closer together than most would admit.
Anton says
“Nazism and Islam ran closer together than most would admit.”//
Actually, the Left now does not admit it at all. To the contrary, most of them are pretty sure that Hitler went after Muslims. When they say that Trump is like Hitler they mean exactly this that Trump is after Muslims like Hitler was.
abu taleb says
Muslims never kill innocent people, but they never tell that all non muslims are not innocent, in fact the non muslims have commited the greatest crime which is not being a muslim. So all non muslims must be killed with the exception of the Christians and Jews if they are willing to submit and pay jizyah. If all non muslims are killed, who will work and take care the muslims.
Islam is the true and right religion for all scumbags on earth, isn’t it?
Elisha says
Sahih Bukhari (52:269) – “The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.'”
Keys says
Yes. Thanks for the reference.
Islam divides the world in two:
Dar al Harb (the world of war)
Dar al Islam
Therefore, beware of Muslim deceit always and everywhere.
Jennifer says
The genocide of Jews is religious law in Islam.
sidney penny says
“Yet it did. And if we fail to remember this today, we will, as the old adage goes, be condemned to repeat it.”
You keep hitting the nail on the head, Mr Spencer
bouboulina says
The next thing that cleric must do after first apologizing for lying about the holocaust is to send that checkered tablecloth on his head back to the Italian restaurant where he took it.
gravenimage says
I doubt the restaurant would want to back now–think of where it has been…
Mahendra Singh says
Like most Muslims this cleric is speaking through his butt. About 5 years ago
a Jihadi ran rampant in Toulouse. Three kids were shot, among which was this girl,
which touched my heart. I saved her picture in my documents file. How this innocent
9-year old could have hurt Islam, only a Mohamden can explain.
Here is the URL
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9154350/Toulouse-shooting-little-girl-cornered-in-school-and-shot-in-head.html