The latest from Linda Sarsour:
American political activist and former Women’s March, Inc. leader Linda Sarsour said during an American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) conference on Nov. 28 that Israel “is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else.”
Israel is a tiny country, built not the idea that Jews are “supreme to everyone else,” but that Jews, like all other peoples, deserve to have a state of their own. It is equality, not supremacy, that the Jews sought in resurrecting their ancient homeland. And within Israel, there is no manifestation of Jewish “supremacy.” Arabs are equal citizens to Jews; they serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, hold high diplomatic posts, and serve – if they wish – in the army, where some Arabs have risen high in the officer corps. Israeli Arabs live, study, and work beside Jews; there is no second-class citizenship or apartheid.
If Linda Sarsour were to look at the twenty-two Arab states, she would find they are all “built on the idea that Muslim Arabs are supreme to everyone else.” The Arabs are superior both to non-Arab Muslims, and as Muslims, to all non-Muslims. Let’s first consider the non-Arab Muslims. Whether it is the Berbers in North Africa, the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, or the black Africans in the Sudan, they have been mistreated by the Arabs who dominate them. In Algeria, the Berbers have had to struggle to finally win the right even to use their own Berber language, Tamazight; Berber culture is scanted in the schools, Berber history largely ignored. The Kurds have been suppressed by Arab governments both in Syria and Iraq; their dreams of autonomy continuously crushed. Saddam Hussein’s Arab army murdered 182,000 Kurds in Operation Anfal and moved Arabs into Kurdish lands; not a single Arab government protested that mass murder and forced Arabization. Black Africans in the Sudan have been persecuted by northern Arabs for decades, hundreds of thousands have been killed or enslaved; especially murderous have been the Arab militias known as the Janjaweed, who raped, pillaged, and murdered black Africans in Darfur. In a small part of the Sudan, the creation of a new state, South Sudan, has provided security for the black Africans – Christian and animist – living there, but the mistreatment of the black Africans by Arabs in the Sudan itself continues. The oppression in Sudan is based both on ethnicity – the Arabs deem themselves superior to blacks – and on religion, since the blacks are Christian or animist, and thus inferior to Muslims, for whom they are fit objects of Jihad. We might also note that Muslim Arabs still keep nearly a million black Africans – their “inferiors” — as slaves in Mali, Mauritania, and Niger.
In her speech at the conference, Sarsour said that when she speaks on college campuses, she tells students to ask progressive Zionists: “How can you be against white supremacy in America and the idea of being in a state based on race and class, but then you support a state like Israel that is based on supremacy, that is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else?
Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda Rabbi Abraham Cooper said in a statement to the Journal that “Linda has a problem—her hate is based on denying that the Jewish people’s love affair for their land is 3,500 years old. Palestinians are the supremacists; they insist no Jews can live as neighbors.”
Democratic Majority for Israel tweeted on Dec. 2 that Sarsour’s statement was “a vicious, antisemitic lie. Israel’s built on [sic] idea that every people is entitled to self-determination.”
They added in a subsequent tweet: “That’s why Israel favored [the] UN partition plan creating Jewish & Palestinian states. Arab leaders rejected it, launching a war of destruction against Israel. We [and] many Israelis still favor Palestinian state, but after decades of war [and] terrorism Israel’s security must be protected.”
Sarsour’s chutzpah amazes. She assumes that her wider audience will not know that Arab and Jewish citizens are treated equally in Israel, where they live, study, and work together, and where those Arab MKs, Supreme Court justices, diplomats, IDF officers testify to the opportunities open to Arabs. She further believes that non-Muslims will not realize that Islam itself is a supremacist ideology that has claimed tens of millions of non-Muslim victims. The Qur’an teaches Muslims that they are the “best of peoples” (3:110) and non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). What could be more supremacist than this? It is too bad that none of those who have responded critically to Sarsour’s remarks have brought up these Qur’anic verses, and asked Linda Sarsour to explain what effect such verses have had on Muslims over the past 1,400 years. She might also be asked what we are to make of the verse that tells Muslims not to take Christians or Jews as friends, “for they are friends only with each other.” Sarsour should be asked whether, in the past 1,400 years, Muslims have anywhere demonstrated a willingness in the lands they have conquered not to dominate non-Muslims, but to treat them as equals. Sarsour should be asked what she makes of the treatment of non-Muslims after they had been conquered by Muslims, when they were faced with the choice of death, conversion to Islam, or acquiescence in the permanent status of dhimmi, which imposed many onerous conditions on them, including the payment of the burdensome Jizyah, a capitation tax paid by dhimmis to the Muslim state in order to protect them from attacks by Muslims themselves. What are we to conclude from the more than 100 Quranic verses that instruct Muslims to wage violent Jihad against non-Muslims, to fight, to kill, to smite the necks of, to strike terror in the hearts of, those non-Muslims? If this conquest of all others is both the right and the duty of Muslims, does that not bespeak a murderous supremacy? We could make things easier for Linda Sarsour by limiting discussion to a handful of Qur’anic verses whose meaning we would like her to explain. Here are a dozen such verses: 2:191-193, 3:151, 4:89, 8:12, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29, 98:6, 47:4.
Islam is a supremacist faith; there is no Muslim land where non-Muslims are treated as fully equal to Muslims. The Qur’an uncompromisingly divides humanity between Muslims and non-Muslims; the former are superior in every way to the latter. And within the Umma, the worldwide community of Believers, Arabs are naturally regarded as the best of Muslims. It could not be otherwise. For Allah delivered his message in Arabic, and to a seventh-century Arab. That Arab, Muhammad, is regarded by Muslims as the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil) and the Model of Conduct (uswa hasana). The Qur’an itself should ideally be read in Arabic. Many non-Arab Muslims, including converts, have adopted Arabic names and, less frequently, Arab dress. Some have even given themselves false Arab lineages. Not a few Muslims, especially in Pakistan, call themselves Sayid, to indicate their supposed descent from the Quraysh, the tribe of the Prophet. The scholar of Islam Anwar Shaikh famously described Islam as the vehicle for Arab supremacism. Would Linda Sarsour care to discuss that description?
Meanwhile, whatever else those responding to Linda Sarsour may say, they should be sure to quote the two Quranic verses given in this post’s seventh paragraph above. To repeat: Muslims are “the best of peoples” (3:110) and non-Muslims are “the worst of created beings.” (98:6). What could be more supremacist than that? Please explain, Linda — we’re all ears.
mccode says
Would someone please just put a sock in this hag?
Robert McCormack says
Well said- she should be deported.
william carr says
I said it yesterday somewhere and I will say it again. Is not her religion Islam based on the idea or claim that Muslims are superior to all non Muslims? Much like the Nazis claimed that Germans were the master race and and destined to rule over everybody else. To my knowledge I have never heard the Jews claim to be superior to anybody else.
Leslie Fish says
As a group, Jews certainly are superior to this lying bigot.
Quazgaa says
100% stupid, now 25% fatter!
Limited offer!
ElderlyZionist says
“…the Jewish people…is in Palestine as of right and not on the sufferance. That is the reason why it is necessary that the existence of a Jewish National Home in Palestine should be internationally guaranteed, and that it should be formally recognized to rest upon ancient historic connection.” – British White Paper of June 1922
Linda Sarsour and her kin have fought against the Jewish National Home for a hundred years. They have lost. They will continue to lose. They will drag down anyone who supports them. Their best chance to prosper is to make peace with Israel. The door is open, Linda, when you decide to step through.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, the Muslims have fought against the Jews for even longer than 100 years and the Jews still refuse to surrender to them. Yes, the Muslims may continue to lose for another 100 years or longer but are the Muslims supposed to accept defeat and make peace with the Jews? As I read the Koran the answer is NO they are not. They are supposed to fight and keep fighting until the Jews are humbled into submission and willingly pay the Jizya to their Muslim overlords. This is per verse 9:29 of the Koran. Muslims in the days of Muhammad accepted this verse as the unalterable word of Allah and Muslims from now until the return of the Muslim version of Jesus will continue to try to prove their devotion to Allah by obeying it. The Muslims consider it unchangeable because to change it would be admission that the Koran is not a holy book that exists in Heaven, permanent and immutable for all time, untouchable by the hands of men.
This is Islam. Is there any other kind of Islam, one which does not accept the Koran as eternal and immutable? It is a curse upon the world and I see no way to remove it except through fighting against those who are demanded by their god to fight until all the peoples of the world submit. Those are the only choices Islam gives to the world — fight or submit. It will be that way as long even one person believes that the commands of Allah should be obeyed. The fighting will stop only when one side or the other achieves total victory. That is something I firmly believe.
abad says
Linda Sarsour worships the Devil, of course she wants to see Israel and the USA fail.
And the liberal elite in the USA want to see the same thing.
Ren says
The Jew are certainly superior to the muslims.
Infidel says
Every non Muslim people are!
Talking about supremacy, Islam is certainly built on the idea that Arabs – particularly from the Arabian peninsula and belonging to the Quraysh tribe – are supreme
Don McKellar says
Israel was indeed created as a homeland for the Jewish people and Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Instagram: “Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to the nation-state law we passed [in July 2018], Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people – and not anyone else.”
So you are wrong, Hugh. And that creep Sarsour is correct. In the same way that moslem countries are nation-states of moslems, so Israel is a nation-state of Jews. In both cases, that citizen who holds the correct religious beliefs and/or ancestor enjoys a superior position in the society to those who do not.
There are also dozens of laws which restrict non-Jews in many ways including land ownership. It’s all pretty ugly when you get right down to it.
However, I am all for them having their own nation-state as long as none of my taxpayer dollars flow their way.
Rarely says
She’s not debating. The facts are irrelevant to her. She is simply trying to delegitimize Israel and promote anti-Semitism among those with ears willing to listen. Any lie, however obviously a lie to any partially open-minded person, will suffice to fuel this hatred.
It’s disgusting that she has a platform of any sort.
gravenimage says
Very true, Rarely.
Islam is the future says
Wait until Muslim create a tiny country in middle of USA,and have not the idea that Muslims are “supreme to americans,” but that Muslim, like all other americans, deserve to have a state of their own. It is equality, not supremacy, that the muslim sought in resurrecting their ancient homeland. And within new “Islamic State of America”, there is no manifestation of Muslim “supremacy.” Black and White are equal citizens to Muslim; they serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, hold high diplomatic posts, and serve – if they wish – in the army, where some Americans have risen high in the officer corps. ISA Americans live, study, and work beside Muslim; there is no second-class citizenship or apartheid. see what you think . . .
Rarely says
Total non sequitur. What are you talking about?????
Rarely says
This is the type of idiot she’s talking to.
gravenimage says
Sounds like it…
abad says
Moslems already have a home state. It’s called Saudi Arabia, the Home of Islam, Birthplace of Mohammad (TM Pending)
gravenimage says
Muslims have 57 states, abad–but it’s never enough, They want little Israel, as well.
Westman says
The Women’s March finally figured that Sar-sour is a broken hate-vessel. Her open attack on Israel won’t get her very far with anyone other than Muslims and Jew-haters. Even the politicians at the UN can’t afford such overt pronouncements; they do it with silver tongued resolutions.
FYI says
Well,her pagan ARAB god al lah{“The BEST of deceivers” k3;54} doesn’t thing women are supreme given that his “prophet” muhammed insisted women have a “deficiency of the mind” which is WHY the koran insists a muslimas testimony is HALF that of a man {k2:282}
In islam,according to allah and his “prophet”,neither Linda Sarsour nor ilhan omar will EVER be equal to a man.
That hijab is worn in honor of ..
1}a misogynistic pagan ARAB god who loathes women{sending them to hell anyway,Sahih Muslim 241 for the terrible crime of being TAKFURNA or “ungrateful”}
2} a god who knows LESS BIOLOGY than any modern woman{see Scientific mistakes in the koran}
And yet they happily defend their misogynistic Arab god!
PBH says
Here is the roster of speakers at the 2019 AMP Conference in Chicago – an Intel goldmine; grab it before it disappears.
https://thearabdailynews.com/2019/09/23/american-muslims-for-palestine-hosts-conference-nov-28-30-2019/
PRCS says
In the video: “I’m also against white supremacy’.
She once also said, “‘Before wearing a hijab, I was just an ordinary white girl’
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Before putting on her hijab, Linda Sarsour admits she was white. Now she claims to be a “person of color.”
FYI says
On You Tube
Linda Sarsour:sharia is a girls best friend
PRCS says
That’s a funny video.
Tony Naim says
In Muslim countries with significant Christian minorities like Syria and Iraq, the civic code does not accept a Muslim to be married to a nonMuslim, it is illegal. By default, such a union is automatically recorded under Islamic law, without the approval of the non Muslim party in that union.
Dhimmitude is a well known concept and practice in Islamic jurisprudence.
It is strange no one in the west addresses this injustice. Dhimmitude is no different than racism or slavery. It is an extreme form of discrimination.
Sam says
I agree with Linda. Israel is much superior compared to its neighbors which are full of cult members of Islam who can produce nothing but pure hate for everybody and everything.
gravenimage says
Linda Sarsour: Israel “Built On the Idea That Jews Are Supreme”
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Talk about projection! It is Muslims who are violent surpremacists.
Norger says
Fill in the blanks Linda: Islam was built on the idea that [. ] are supreme.
JHL says
More antisemitism from Linda sarsewer
OLD GUY says
Linda Sarsour SHUT UP and go away. I’ll chip in to buy you a oneway ticket out of America, so you can live among your loving and caring islamic family in what ever shit hole muslim country you choose. You bring nothing to America but lie and hate, so leave.
jca reid says
Way back in the Torah it said the Jews are the Best – God’s chosen People etc. This was plagiarised by Mohammed saying the Muslims are the Best of People etc. etc.. The Muslims over the past 1400years have contributed NOTHING to the Advancement/Development of Mankind. Nothing at all. Jews have produced something like 150 Nobel Laureates in the Sciences, from a population of 15Million tops. The Muslims around 2 & a 1/3, from a population of 1.5Billion! We’re helping them out by including Economics here. The rest had to be thankful for doing their Education at US Institutions. Strange they want to come to the Land of the Great Satan. Arab Universities have done zilch! This makes the Jews 100times better.
Carol the 1st says
Yes, being of the “chosen people” signifies an honor and a trust. Being a “supremacist” plays itself out as dominance and disparagement of the “other” ala Sarsour.