They condemn anti-Semitism, but believe in a book teeming with it. My latest in PJ Media. I wrote this several days ago; since then, the casualty count, as well as the number of Muslim leaders condemning anti-Semitism, without, of course, ever being asked about Islamic anti-Semitism, has grown.
On Saturday morning, a man named Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the middle of a service and opened fire, killing eleven people while screaming “All Jews must die.” His Gab page showed that he hated President Trump as much as he hated Jews, not least because of Trump’s strong support for Israel.
Muslim leaders and Islamic apologists were quick to condemn the killings and anti-Semitism in general. This is all good, except that it entangles them in difficult contradictions.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council tweeted: “Our hearts are broken at the news of a shooting and casualties at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. We pray for strength and healing for the congregation and Jewish communities nationwide. We offer our sympathies for and solidarity with the American Jewish community.” Also tweeting was Corey Saylor, an Islamic apologist and former CAIR official: “I stand with #Pittsburgh and the Jewish community. #Pittsburghissteel and we are with you. Anti-Semitism is ugly and unacceptable.”
Akbar Ahmed, a world-renowned Islamic scholar and professor at American University, tweeted: “I pray for the victims of the shooting at #TreeofLife synagogue in #Pittsburgh and send my condolences to their families and community. The shooter, a white man, walked into the synagogue shouting racist abuses, while the congregation was in prayer demonstrating a classic pattern of contemporary hatred. #Antisemitic violence is up 50% in the past year. Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, LGBT – no one is safe! America has to wake up and stop this killing madness.”
Not to be outdone, Ahmed’s protégé, Dr. Craig Considine of Rice University, tweeted: “Our hearts go out to all those impacted by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Anti-Semitism is poisonous & vile. It has no place in the U.S. or anywhere else for that matter. It is an assault on human rights. It is a threat to society at large. It must not be tolerated anywhere.”
Considine has previously likened Muhammad to George Washington, hailed Muhammad as a “universal champion of human rights,” and claimed that Christianity has a concept of jihad just like Islam’s. He pulls off these feats of legerdemain by employing a very simple method: ignoring the abundance of evidence that doesn’t fit his thesis. Considine has even called on Christians to accept Muhammad as a prophet.
Muhammad said this, according to Islamic tradition:
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. (Sahih Muslim 6985)
Many Muslims take this genocidal saying very seriously. An imam in Denmark was indicted for hate speech for quoting it approvingly last summer. Imams have also quoted it recently not just in the Palestinian Authority but in Montreal, in Davis, California, in Houston, and elsewhere.
What’s more, the Qur’an that all these Muslim spokesmen revere as the perfect word of Allah 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).
Such passages have induced Muslims throughout the last fourteen centuries, as I show in detail in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, to brutalize and kill Jews.
Yet MPAC, Saylor, Ahmed, Considine, and others like them have never said a word about that incitement. So while it is good to see them condemn anti-Semitism in the wake of the horrific massacre in the Pittsburgh synagogue, there is a great deal more for them to do in this line.
Will they condemn all the sources of anti-Semitic hatred and violence, even when they cut close to home? Or is some anti-Semitism more unacceptable than others?
PRCS says
“without, of course, ever being asked about Islamic anti-Semitism”
Keyword: asked
Of course, CAIR could voluntarily weigh in on this–if they cared–and if they wouldn’t have to answer any pesky questions about Islam’s Jew hatred.
While “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization” has co-opted many civil rights issues, looks like they’re laying low on this one.
Apparently too busy complaining about Trum’s “racist” birthright citizenship stance
Andy says
DC Professor Blames Jews & Trump for Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre, Not a ‘Hate Crime’
https://israelunwired.com/dc-professor-pittsburgh-synagogue-massacre-was-strictly-political-not-a-hate-crime/
mortimer says
Muslims who appear to oppose anti-Semitism are suspicious, because the Islamic mainstream is VERY anti-Semitic.
I was Born to Hate Jews
How do devout Muslims born in the West feel about Jews? How do they feel about Western values in general? Kasim Hafeez, who was raised a devout Muslim in England, explains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQEmeGfFmY
gravenimage says
Yes–all pious Muslims hate Jews.
The “Prophet” Muhammed enslaved and slaughtered Jews, the Qur’an is full of Jew hatred, and the Hadith preach the genocide of the Jews in the Last Days.
Thelastvirgingoat says
I’ve see video of the shooter getting arrested he had a beard on the footage.
No pictures after that with the offender having a beard. I believe the shooter may have ties to Islamic terrorists.
lebel says
He’s a Muslim but the media is hiding the truth.
See jihadwatch articles on the vehicular attack in Toronto and the car attack in Munster (Germany). Non-Muslim white guys were blamed but the Muslims did it!!
gravenimage says
lebel constantly claims that all of the filthy Infidels here are baseless blaming Muslims for committing crimes.
Of course, he wants us to ignore the mounting cases of Jihad terror. Bad, bad dhimmis…
infidel says
This is another brilliant piece of argument by Robert. Is it possible that the Pitt killer was secretly radicalized in Islam..Who knows. Anyways, I never trust whatever comes out of the mouth of a Muslim. These eyes have seen and experienced too much in India to believe otherwise…
lebel says
He’s a Muslim but the media is hiding the truth. Jihadwatch is on the case and will have an article soon on how the Pittsburg shooting is linked to Islam.
It’s perfect, it’s what people like you need for their world to make sense.
FYI says
SAHIH MUSLIM 6985
islamic supremacist ideology’s equivalent of the final solution for Jews.
A genocidal islamic war of annihilation of the Jews
GET the muslim leaders to explain that away!
See what MPAC and the media has to say about SAHIH MUSLIM 6985.
Berengaria says
It’s all Too Scripted, Evil White Man, possibly Christian, committed the most evil attack on Jewish-Americans in USA History.
Within a short amount of time, Muslims in Pittsburgh are asking to assist Frigtened Jewish Women in doing their Shopping & starting a “Go Fund Me” Account.
The Fake News Media has propelled this version of Anti-Semitism in the US & has brought together the Muslim,Jewish & Media Call for White People to end the Terror of All Anti-Semitism.
The only problem is that most White People are not Anti-Semites & Only one Evil Person committed the Murders, we are told.
My heart cries for them, but neither President Trump, White People or any other Group should be Blamed, Only the Guilty is Responsible.
lebel says
Here we go, classic RS
1. Link Islam to terrorism done by non-Muslims
2. Ask Muslims to condemn and as soon as they do move goalpost to asking Muslims to condemn their religion as evil.
3. Eventually just call Taqqiya if a Muslim is too cooperative.
gravenimage says
Ignore those Jihad terror attacks, hatred of Infidels–especially Jews–in Muslim scripture, and the frequent use of lying to the infidels about Islam, all of you filthy Infidels…
Walter Sieruk says
First, when news reached the Middle East about that brutal and murderous shooting of all those Jews in the synagogue in the city of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania , many of those Middle Eastern Muslims were actually happy and glad to hear about the terrible disaster that came upon those Jewish people.
That malicious Islamic way of thinking reflects the extremely vicious and antisemitism of Islam Furthermore, to such a malice-filled mindset and this the Bible informs its readers that “He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 17:5. [N.K.J.V.]
Second, that vicious despicable murderous shooter, Robert Bowers, in the synagogue in Pittsburgh Pa. is a very strong reminder of the wisdom found in the speech given by a former US President, William Howard Taft, For in that speech President Taft declared “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Likewise, every sane person knows and understands that the murders, Bowers, committed is a heinously evil things to do and evil and that by his behavior Bowers had himself to be evil. Furthermore, that hideous fiend of a man had also proven himself to be totally and completely un-American. As Theodore Roosevelt had in one of his speeches made it known that “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are American and nothing else.”
Third,that vicious shooter, Robert Bowers, who committed those mass murders should be executed by the State government of Pennsylvania . The Bible instructs in Exodus 21:12. “He who strikes a man so that he does shall surly be put to death.”
Kepha says
As far as I know, Bowers got his anti-Semitism from neo-Nazi associations, not Islamic ones.
There’s enough Islamic-inspired violence going on now that we don’t have to associate this creep from Pittsburgh with it. Perhaps there is a good bit of pro-Palestinian ranting, but such does not a Muslim make.
gravenimage says
That is not what Robert Spencer is saying, Kepha.