My latest in PJ Media:
After 1,400 years of jihad violence against Jews everywhere that Muslims and Jews have lived in proximity, the Orthodox Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who serves as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, says that he finds it “alarming” that so many Muslims in the United Kingdom are anti-Semitic. But given Islam’s texts, teachings and history, what else did he expect?
Rabbi Mirvis recently participated in an online debate about Israel’s normalization of relations with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), along with the UAE’s Minister for International Cooperation, Reem Ebrahim Al-Hashimy; former UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon; and Britain’s former Middle East Minister Alistair Burt. In the course of the debate, Mirvis referred to a survey that found that 44 percent of Muslims in Britain believed in hateful and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and remarked: “This is an alarming rate, it’s nearly half of the Muslims in the UK. That underlines how crucially important engagement, dialogue and understanding is… There’s so much potential relating to Jewish-Muslim relations. I believe the Abraham Accords have unlocked certain doors for us.”
Yes, they have, but they have done so by laying aside the Islamic teachings that inculcate this deep hatred of Jews in all too many Muslims. If Rabbi Mirvis were to take the time to open the Qur’an, he would find that it 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).
There are more exhortations to violence in Islamic tradition. Muhammad said this, according to a hadith:
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. Such passages have induced Muslims throughout the last fourteen centuries, as The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS shows in detail, to brutalize and kill Jews. There are innumerable examples of this. 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…
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Clarino says
Alarming, perhaps. But astounding that the percentage should be so low!
Infidel says
You beat me to it! I just don’t believe that the number is that low. I’d expect it to be in the 90s
Eva says
So would I. 44% sounds way, way too low.
And I’m sure I saw a study from a year or two ago that put the number higher.
I doubt if it’s dropped.
Eva says
Don’t forget that they lie like rugs. It’s permitted, actually, encouraged.
ELI says
In jihadwatch crazy hate world, 44 percent are honest (in effect going against their religion which tells them to lie) while 56 percent are lying.
So more or less 100 percent!
Simo Hayha says
“Chief Rabbi of UK Says It’s ‘Alarming’ That 44% of Muslims Are Anti-Semitic”
Wait. WHAT? Scuuuuuze me? How about 100% HATE JEWS? It is WRITTEN in their Cornball, um, Cure-all, er, gee, Who-Ran, whatever, it TELLS THEM that Jews are the worst enemy of muslimes and to kill them wherever they are found! “STRIKE THE NECKS!”
Henry Schalk says
I imagine there’s an unknown percentage of Muslims who will lie in order to advance, and protect the cause of Islam. Gaining the trust of the Kafir to make him assailable is a deceit that is sanctioned by Islam.
sima skarica says
I have found when it comes to Israel they all hate us and I have been in discussion with many supposedly moderate ones who say its the fault of Zionists
Scary. We will follow path of France and Europe with Trudeau as PM
Eva says
It would not surprise me to discover the true figure was much higher.
And I don’t believe the Abraham Accords will do a thing to prevent Jew-hatred.
The uae and bahrain have already stabbed Israel in the back at the u.n, and bahrain has walked back an agreement to label good from the so-called ‘occupied territories’ (and we all know who’s REALLY doing the occupying) as Israeli.
So it seems to be business as usual regarding Jews in the moslem world.
gravenimage says
Chief Rabbi of UK Says It’s ‘Alarming’ That 44% of Muslims Are Anti-Semitic
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I imagine the figure is much higher than that.
Still, kudos to Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis for speaking out!
Wellington says
I fail to see how a devout Muslim, who truly knows his own faith, cannot be anti-Semitic. Islam oozes hatred for Jews as Robert Spencer detailed above.
Westman says
Maybe 56% don’t actually read the Quran or show up for the firebrand Friday sermon? Nahh, I don’t believe it, either….
Jayell says
Just 44%? Surely they’re true followers of the Great Prophet – who was a shining example of ‘perfection’ to Hitler & C0. – they should ALL be anti-semitic?
gravenimage says
Jayell, I think that number comes from this report:
“44% of UK Muslims back anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, poll finds”
London-based Henry Jackson Society think tank report says integration may be key to tackling anti-Jewish prejudice in Muslim community
https://www.timesofisrael.com/44-of-uk-muslims-back-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theories-poll-finds/
So rates of antisemitism itself may be much higher.
Mojdeh says
See the movie Infidel that they kidnap a Christian journalist to Tehran. Life will never become same again. I am infidel i am proud of it and what about you?
Ade Fegan says
Best not tell him about islam’s take on Jews or he’ll have an aneurysm
Sid Levine says
The real problem is the fact that people like Mirvis have just now opened their eyes to this fact. In the UK this has been going on for at least two decades and the Jewish Communal Religious and Lay leaders followed their usual practice of burying their heads in the sand. Mirvis is a particular problem because, like his predecessor, he promoted interfaith dialogue and ignored the anti Israel rhetoric from UK immigrant Muslims, and did not ensure proper legislation to control this increasing minority group. He maintained a deafening silence to his discredit
Roland says
Unfortunately, the atmosphere in Britain is more saturated with anti-Semitism than in the United States. Their Jewish community is smaller and less politically powerful. And the British Jewish political left is just as idiotic.
American rabbi Richard L. Rubenstein, author of “Jihad and Genocide”, has said that interfaith dialogue with Muslims is pointless because of their taquiyya.
spiro says
Well at least this rabi has an understanding
Good for him
44% yeah right the other 56 % lied
Giacomo Latta says
The next time anyone wants to repeat this kind of a survey it would have to be done twice in order to determine the true proportion of antisemitic muslims. One interviewer should dress in a typical Western suit to ask the questions for one sample group and another should dress as a ”brother” for another sample group. Then one should be able to determine the true proportion as well as how prevalent lying is among the subjects. Other things could be learned by having women in either garb (under armed guard, of course) to ask the questions.
Pray Hard says
No need. It’s 100%.
Rarely says
Careful choice of words. He used “alarming” not “surprising”.
Gourdhead says
44% admit their hatred and the other 56% are liars.
R Thomasson says
With all respect, Chief Rabbi Mirvis, is a nice guy. He tries to sketch Muslims in a mild light. Reality is far more hazardous. Not only 44% of Muslims hate Jews, but 95% of them (and perhaps more) hate Jews …hate Christians, …hate Hindi, Sikh’s, Buddhists, atheists and everyone who doesn’t give a damn for their gangster god Allah. Their Capo dei Capi is demanding from them a total obedience, and above all to hate and kill everyone who doesn’t follow his holly orders and regulations. Remember the demonstration before the Danish embassy in 2006. It had taken place far before ISIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoMeUcC_M20 Allah is very much like the Terminator in the movie by the same name (with Arnold Schwarzenegger). He is not of flesh and blood, you cannot kill him, not bring him to justice, and not jail him in Guantanamo Bay. There is no way to negotiate with his gang members, have a dialogue, or reason with them. Chief Rabbi Mirvis has no other way, but to accept reality as it is. Living in today’s Britain is living with the enemy in within. The enemy is not the people of Britain, but the zunami swarms of Third World Muslims for whom Britain had opened its doors. Nobody wanted to listen to Enoch Powell’s warnings in his “Rivers of Blood” speech of 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3QC5_efQb0
Pray Hard says
He’s only 56% off.
Pray Hard says
That 44% must be the “islamists” we’re always hearing about, huh?
James Lincoln says
The remaining 56% of British muslims and not *yet* devout.
Devout muslims are *always* anti-Semitic…