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ADL Finds Extreme Antisemitism Among Muslims in Western Europe Almost Three Times Higher Than National Rates

Nov 25, 2019 11:00 am By Andrew Bostom

On November 21, 2019, the ADL released its 2019 survey data on the prevalence (occurrence) of extreme Antisemitism (defined, below) within 18 countries assessed between April 15 and June 3, 2019. Six of these countries—Belgium, The United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy—included a Muslim over-sample, allowing for a direct comparison of Muslims vs. Christians, those professing no religion, and the overall populations.

As ADL’s own press release stated:

“Muslim acceptance of anti-Semitic stereotypes was substantially higher than among the national populations—on average almost three times as high—in the six countries tested: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom”

In sadly typical fashion, however, the ADL downplayed these findings in its press release, effectively concealing them as the last of six bullet points, i.e., # 6 of 6.

The ADL also failed to expressly note how compared to Western European Christians, specifically, Muslims were also ~3-times more likely to harbor extreme Antisemitic attitudes as gauged by abiding at least 6 of 11 Antisemitic stereotypes queried. (see tabulated data)

In brief, the ADL presents respondents with the following questionnaire:

“Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/to the countries they live in]

Jews have too much power in the business world

Jews have too much power in international financial markets

Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust

Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind

Jews have too much control over global affairs

Jews have too much control over the United States government

Jews think they are better than other people

Jews have too much control over the global media

Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars

People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave”

The “Index Score” determining the occurrence of “extreme Antisemitism” in each population surveyed is calculated as follows:

“survey respondents who said at least 6 out of the 11 statements are ‘probably true’ are considered to harbor anti-Semitic attitudes. The Index Score for each country represents the percentage of adults in that specific country who answered ‘probably true’ to a majority (i.e., at least 6/11) of the anti-Semitic stereotypes tested”

I have tabulated the data from the 6 Western European countries which included a Muslim oversample, Belgium, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain, and Germany, just below.

Predictably, this disproportionate occurrence of extreme Muslim Antisemitism within Western Europe has begotten an excess of Muslim violence targeting Jews. A lone study of its kind (conducted by FRA – European Union for Fundamental Rights, in 2012) queried Jewish victims directly about the identity of those who attacked them, or threatened them with violence, asking them to recall their past 5-year experiences:

“Thinking about the incident where somebody attacked or threatened you in a way that    frightened you because you are Jewish – who did this to you?”

Compared for example, to those with “extremist right wing views”, the excess rate of Muslim violence or violent threats ranged anywhere from 3- to 13-fold! Indeed other than in Germany, where the percentages of left wing vs. right wing attacks were essentially equal, left wing Antisemitic violence or threatened violence also exceeded right wing Antisemitic violence, or threatened violence.  Violent acts or threats perpetrated by those with “Christian extremist” views were negligible, in absolute terms, and even more so relative to those dubbed “Muslim extremists”.

Cardiologist Vera Kosova, a German Jewish immigrant from Uzbekistan, provided these balanced, pellucid insights on such findings when interviewed recently at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 10/19-20/19 (posted with English subtitles 11/7/19):

“It is important that the Antisemitism debate be led openly, honestly and broadly. There’s a right-wing Antisemitism; there’s a left-wing Antisemitism, and there is Muslim Antisemitism. Muslim Antisemitism clearly dominates in the statistics, and also does especially among the surveys done among the Jews. The German police crime statistics don’t apply, because they do not represent the reality. That’s because as soon as the perpetrator cannot be clearly identified the crime is assigned to the ‘right’ end of the spectrum. We’re not going to solve these problems in this country by doing this, and that’s certainly not going to stop Antisemitism.”

Finally, it is imperative to acknowledge and hold accountable the most authoritative, mainstream Islamic religious teaching institutions—Sunni and Shiite alike—that continue to promote canonical Islam’s most virulently Antisemitic tropes from the Koran, and traditions of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. Sunni Islam’s Vatican, Al-Azhar University, and its previous and current Grand Imam Papal equivalents, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi (d. 2010), and Ahmad Al-Tayeb, respectively, epitomize these trends.

Tantawi, arguably the greatest modern commentator on the Koran, in addition to serving as Al-Azhar Grand Imam from 1996 until his death in 2010, provided this summary gloss on the Koranic depiction of Jews, emphasizing its timeless relevance:

(The) Koran describes the Jews with their own particular degenerate characteristics, i.e. killing the prophets of Allah (see Koran 2:61/ 3:112 ], corrupting His words by putting them in the wrong places (4:46) , consuming the people’s wealth frivolously (4:161), refusal to distance themselves from the evil they do (3:120; 5:79), and other ugly characteristics  caused by their deep-rooted (lascivious) envy (2:109)…only a minority of the Jews keep their word…[A]ll Jews are not the same. The good ones become Muslims (Koran 3:113), the bad ones do not.

More ominously, Tantawi’s exhaustive modern analysis of Islam’s defining, canonical sources concluded by sanctioning bigoted—even violent—Muslim behaviors towards Jews.

[T]he Jews always remain maleficent deniers….they should desist from their negative denial…some Jews went way overboard in their denying hostility, so gentle persuasion can do no good with them, so use force with them and treat them in the way you see as effective in ridding them of their evil. One may go so far as to ban their religion, their persons, their wealth, and their villages.

Tantawi’s successor, current Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb, shares Tantawi’s Jew-hating virulence. Al-Tayeb has labeled the Jews eternal Koranic enemies (per Koran 5:82), blamed Jews for the rise of ISIS and other jihadist groups, and claims “the issue of Antisemitism is a lie.”

Not surprisingly, both Tantawi and Tayeb (then Al-Azhar Mufti) sanctioned homicide bombing against Israel’s Jews even in the immediate aftermath of the horrific Netanya Passover massacre in April, 2002.

Such “sacralized” hatred, preached authoritatively by the avatars of institutional Islam, continues to fuel the global pandemic of Muslim Antisemitism, and is being promulgated, unchallenged. The abject failure of Jewish and other religious and civic leaders to denounce this institutionalized Islamic Jew-hatred is a lingering disgrace.

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  1. Hugo says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 11:15 am

    The same researchers found that generally, the sky is blue.

  2. FYI says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 11:43 am

    muslims won’t get this but someday they are going to be judged by …a Jew.

    Not by their al LAH{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54}the pagan Arab god of islam.

    allah:The god who gets everything wrong
    { and given he is a god with TWO RIGHT HANDS{sahih muslim 1827} and ONE leg,that includes his own anatomy}

    “we Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
    John 4 :22

    That statement comes from a Jew,Jesus Christ:the one who will be judging the souls of these idiotic muslims.

  3. elee says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 11:59 am

    The actual total per centage aof anti-Semites is probably close to 100%. These studies rely entirely on honest self-report by interviewees and have no filters whatever for taqiyya, tawriyah or kitman. More to the point, read the damned scriptures. If they dont believe that s**t, they arent Muslims.

  4. Roland says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 12:05 pm

    Thank you, Dr. Bostom, for all your documentation (including books) and analysis of this painful subject. It is new challenge for Jews and others in the West, especially since Islam was in abeyance for several decades after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the brief period of European colonization. American Jewish organizations are struggling to find their bearings. Some are more alert to Islam, others remain in denial. This is not such a cut-and-dried issue. There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. Can we remain vigilant while keeping the door open to mutually beneficial relations with Muslims who are willing to ignore traditional doctrine?

    • David says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 7:51 am

      Muslims who ignore traditional doctrine are liable to be called Heretics and Apostates. ‘Crimes’ punishable by death in islamic countries

  5. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 1:06 pm

    The ADL, in my view, has as much credibility as their most recent spokesman, a washed up, talentless comedian.

  6. Angemon says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 2:28 pm

    ADL Finds Extreme Antisemitism Among Muslims in Western Europe Almost Three Times Higher Than National Rates

    In other surprising news, water is wet…

  7. Lilith Wept says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 10:11 pm

    Did anyone notice how most of the “jewish stereotype statements” are applicable to moslems?
    It’s another case of moslems accusing others of what they themselves do and the way they behave.

    • David says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 7:49 am

      Yes, Lilith, I agree! List those statements and substitute the word ‘muslim’ for Jew, then give your answers. A whole new Ball Game!

  8. David says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 7:54 am

    When will the World realise that islam is evil? How many more atrocities more will it take?

  9. Mohamed Fuhqwadi al-KABOOM says

    Nov 27, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    I ticked every antisemite box but the second last. All wars? No. WW1 got the Balfour Declaration, WW2 executed it imo. European Jewry obviously suffered greatly under the Nazis. That is not up for dispute, not even to so-called “revisionists”. On the otherhand…

    The Sun (New York)
    Sunday June 6, 1915
    Section 5, Page 1
    ” Six million Jews”

    New York Times
    Friday October 18, 1918
    Page 12
    “Six Million Souls”
    “6,000,000 Jews Need Help”

    New York Times
    Monday September 8, 1919
    Page 6
    “127,000 Jews Have Been Killed And 6,000,000 Are in Peril”
    “6,000,000 souls in Ukrania and in Poland have received
    notice by action and through word that they are going to
    be completely exterminated”

    New York Times
    Wednesday November 12, 1919
    Page 7
    “6,000,000 souls, or half the Jewish population of the earth”(sic)

    Atlanta Constitution
    Monday Feburary 23, 1920
    Page3, column 4, continued from first page
    “…the lives of six millions of Jewish people may be saved”
    “…suffering of the 6,000,000 Jews…”

    New York Times
    Friday May 7, 1920
    Page 11
    “…where six millions face horrifying conditions of famine,
    disease and death…”

    New York Times
    Wednesday July 20, 1921
    Page 2
    “Russia’s 6,000,000 Jews are facing extermination by massacre.”

    Montreal Gazette
    Tuesday December 29, 1931
    Page 6
    “Six Million Jews Face Starvation”

    New York Times
    Sunday May 31, 1936
    Page 14
    ” “the European Holocaust.” ”
    “…the victimized and persecuted Jews escaping the
    European Holocaust.”

    New York Times
    Wednesday Feburary 23, 1938
    Page 23
    “…6,000,000 Jews…”

  10. gravenimage says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 11:41 pm

    ADL Finds Extreme Antisemitism Among Muslims in Western Europe Almost Three Times Higher Than National Rates
    ……………….

    Surprised it isn’t higher that that.

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