You may object that the Jews aren’t polytheists, and thus the Qur’an verse that al-Farra invokes, 9:5, simply isn’t applicable to the Jews. However, the Qur’an also makes the false claim that “The Jews say, ‘Ezra is the son of Allah.'” For a believing Muslim such as al-Farra, that makes the Jews polytheists, who must be killed.
Note also that al-Farra displays no awareness whatsoever of the common claim that Islamic apologists in the West make, that this verse applies only to a particular situation in seventh-century Arabia.
“Gazan Scholar Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra: It Is Our Religious Duty to Fight the Jews and ‘Kill them Wherever You May Find Them,'” MEMRI, February 3, 2019:
Gazan scholar Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra, a lecturer at the Shari’a and Law College of the Islamic University of Gaza, said in a February 3, 2019 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) that it is a religious duty to fight the Jews in Palestine who, he said, occupy the land, violate Muslim holy sites, and kill Muslims. Dr. Al-Farra said that the the Quranic verse that says “kill the polytheists wherever you may find them” applies to the Jews, and that all of Palestine is a battlefield between the Muslims and the Jews. He added that the Muslims must use any effective means to fight the “criminal enemy.” He also said that the Jews may be captured for purposes of prisoner swaps. Dr. Al-Farra is a member of the Palestine Islamic Scholars Association and the International Union of Muslim Scholars, which is headed by Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.
Following are excerpts:
Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra: When the time Allah gave [the criminal polytheists] runs out, fighting them will be mandatory. This is the context of this verse. This applies today to the plundering Jews who drove out our fathers and forefathers, occupied our lands, defiled our holy places, killed our people, and violated our sanctities.
Interviewer: They also betrayed their promises.
Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra: Right. So the following has become our duty: “Kill the polytheists wherever you may find them.” Today, you can rest assured that, according to the religious ruling, Palestine in its entirety constitutes a battlefield between us and the Jews. Therefore, we must strive to fight them using any means that might enable us to get to them anywhere in our pure land, using any means that might enable us to get to them anywhere in our pure land, in the hope of driving them out, Allah willing.
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It is our duty today to fight this criminal enemy. First of all, we should try to kill them – “Kill the polytheists wherever you may find them…” [The verse continues:] “…and seize them.” There is a second option of capturing them so we can swap them for our prisoners.
Michael Copeland says
“as for the Jews, you kill them physically.”
Undercover Mosque, Channel 4
https://www.newenglishreview.org/Miscellaneous/Dispatches_-_Undercover_Mosque/
Jaladhi says
I laugh when I read “Islamic scholar” – what makes them a scholar, two time reading of Quran or something like that!! LOL… Anyway this “Islamic scholar” says Quran justifies killing of jews. Very bold of him to tell the truth!! Now our MSM, politicians and academics should take note that killing of jews is in Quran. For that matter killing of all non-Muslims and apostates is justified in Quran and that is why Muslims do it all over the world. Should these people be allowed to come to the West? Yet the lefty liberals will totally ignore it to justify continued immigration of Muslims in the West!
mgoldberg says
Another low life muslim imam, making a false reason to slaughter ‘others’, and call it ‘holy’.
The whole bit about Ezray, the scribe, being a son of G-d is likewise bogus. He was a scribe, a holy sage, but he was a man. A fine man. Perhaps filled with greatness- but still a man. Just as Moses was the greatest of prophets, still- a man. That’s according to the Torah, the Bible. And all those 54 named prophets of Israel (48men, 6 women) all were people- not gods, not sons or daughters of gods, or G-d.
Mohammed made a deal with false gods, and he later claimed the devil made him do it. Only thing to note is that amongst all those named 54 prophets, that Mohammed is the only ‘other’ one who called himself the final prophet- for which he slaughtered jews, and others and called for that subjugation forever, everywhere.
He was neither a prophet nor a good man. He was a serial killer and worse.
FYI says
Moses is a Jew
Jesus Christ is a Jew
ALL Biblical prophets both in the OT and NT are Jews
“It is from the Jews that salvation comes”
John 4 v 22
Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jews and is the property of the
God of Israel{“MY LAND” See book of Joel chpt 3}
Does allah the “best of deceivers” k3:54 and his idiotic muslims get that?
Nope..
The author of the koran,”allah”{or muhammed’s sock puppet} is so violently antisemitic that not only is he is jealous of the Jews but he denies them any relevancy at all.
“allah” cannot accept the fact that all those JEWISH Biblical prophets are JEWISH because he calls the Jews k2:65 “Apes to be despised and hated”.
“Abraham was not a Jew” k3:67 says allah unhelpfully:Why?Because if Abraham{Moses or Elijah..} was a Jew then by allah’s logic,Abraham would be an “ape to be despised and hated” so Abraham must be…..a muslim.Ludicrous!
In islam ,Moses is of course a muslim and definitely NOT JEWISH,and laughably,the koran claims “And verily We gave unto Moses the scripture{Torah}” k2:87:but 1)when did Moses have the Torah and 2)isn’t the Torah in HEBREW,a language that allah,who only speaks Arabic*{koran 41 v 44},doesn’t relate to?So how is the Torah in Hebrew then{..because although allah CLAIMS he wrote it k3:3..that’s a big fib isn’t it?and muslims will say the Jews corrupted it by writing it …in Hebrew.. LOL}
There is a story in islam about Moses the muslim: narrated Abu Huraira..
“So once Moses went out to take a bath and put his clothes over a stone and then that STONE RAN AWAY WITH HIS CLOTHES.”My clothes!oh Stone!”Till the people of Bani Israel saw him and said “By allah.Moses has no defect in his body”Moses took his clothes and began to beat the stone”
I mean if you are going to make up stuff in islam{talking ants,talking baby Jesus,muhammed’s winged flying horse with a woman’s face..}….A PERAMBULATING THIEVING STONE…..why not?
BTW Christians are NOT polytheists:this error comes from ..allah himself.
allah totally misunderstands the Theology behind the Trinity{k4:171} despite claiming to be the author of and claiming to have given the Gospel to Jesus{k5:46}..in which the Trinity is explained..so {allah the author of the koran}DENIES{allah the author of the Gospel}
islam and logic:separated at birth
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“And if WE had appointed it a koran in a foreign tongue they would assuredly have said:if only its verses were expounded so that we might understand.What! A FOREIGN TONGUE AND AN ARAB?”Koran 41:44.
What!A foreign tongue and an Arab?As if to say…Are you nuts?
How convenient:allah is a linguistically challenged Arab god..and HEBREW is a FOREIGN TONGUE to allah the Arab god{Compare the Bible:it is in ALL LANGUAGES}
gravenimage says
Muslims all believe that the Jewish prophets were all somehow actually Muslims. Never mind that this makes no sense.
mortimer says
Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra (PhD) promotes GENOCIDE. Islam clearly does not preach ‘BROTHERHOOD’ with Jews and Christians… not at all.
Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra (PhD) knows Sharia law better than Dhimmi Pope Frank.
Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra, PhD, believes that Jews and Christians are POLYTHEISTS and for that reason, they should be killed.
Robert Spencer shows the SPECIOUS basis of Al-Farra’s claim in : “The Jews call ‘Uzayr a son of God, and the Christians call Christ the son of God. That is saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate the Unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!” (Surah 9:30)
There were never Jews who were polytheists, since that would be a denial of Judaism. Not did ‘The Jews’ (i.e. all the Jews) believe Ezra to be the ‘son of Allah’ which the Koran compares to ‘The Christians’ (i.e. all the Christians). A Christian who is not a Trinitarian is not a Christian.
alex says
Mortimer: good post, but there are Unitarian Christians however. Most Christians would consider the Unitarian or Arian Christians to be heretics though.
gravenimage says
Islamic scholar invokes Qur’an to justify killing Jews: “Kill the polytheists wherever you may find them”
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More proof that “polytheist” just means Infidel.