‘In Context’: Muhammad Morsi’s (Islamically Correct) Jew-Hatred
The theological basis for Morsi’s conspiratorial, dehumanizing allegations against the Jews is a central anti-Semitic motif in the Koran which decrees an eternal curse upon them for purportedly slaying the prophets, and transgressing against the will of Allah (Koran 2:61, and 2:90-91, reiterated at 3:112). It should be noted that Koran 3:112 is featured before the pre-amble to Hamas’ foundational Covenant.
This central motif is coupled to Koranic verses 5:60, and 5:78, which describe the Jews transformation into apes and swine (5:60), or simply apes, (i.e. verses 2:65 and 7:166), having been “ … cursed by the tongue of David, and Jesus, Mary’s son” (5:78). According to the earliest sacralized, pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad (by Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Saad), just before subduing the Medinan Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza and orchestrating the mass execution of their adult males, Islam’s prophet invoked this striking Koranic motif for the Jews debasement, addressing these Jews, with hateful disparagement, as “You brothers of apes.”
Muhammad himself also repeats the Koranic curse upon the Jews in a canonical hadith (Sunan Abu Dawoud, Book 37, Number 4322): “He [Muhammad] then recited the verse [5:78]: ‘ … curses were pronounced on those among the children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary’ .”
The related verse, Koran 5:64, accuses the Jews of being “spreaders of war and corruption” — a sort of ancient Koranic antecedent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — invoked not only by Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, but “moderate” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who cited Koran 5:64 during a January 2007 speech which urged Palestinian Muslims to end their internecine strife, and to “aim their rifles at Israel.”
Indeed, the Koran’s overall discussion of the Jews is marked by a litany of their sins and punishments, as if part of a divine indictment, conviction, and punishment process. The Jews’ ultimate sin and punishment are made clear: they are the devil’s minions (4:60) cursed by Allah, their faces will be obliterated (4:47), and if they do not accept the true faith of Islam — the Jews who understand their faith become Muslims (3:113) — they will be made into apes (2:65/ 7:166), or apes and swine (5:60), and burn in the Hellfires (4:55, 5:29, 98:6, and 58:14, 15,16,17,18,19).
Classical Koranic commentators such as Tabari (d. 923), Zamakshari (d. 1143), Baydawi (d. 1316), and Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), when discussing Koran 5:82, which includes the statement “Thou wilt surely find the most hostile of men to the believers are the Jews,” concur on the unique animus of the Jews towards the Muslims, which is repeatedly linked to the curse of Koran 2:61/2:90-91/3:112.
For example, in his commentary on Koran 5:82, Tabari writes:
In my opinion, [the Christians] are not like the Jews who always scheme in order to murder the emissaries and the prophets, and who oppose God in his positive and negative commandments, and who corrupt His scripture which He revealed in His books.
Between 2004 and 2010, Muhammad Morsi repeated direct citations of or references to Koran 5:60, 5:64, and 5: 82 during interview discussions of the Jews and Israel.
Morsi’s understanding of these verses comports with their classical exegesis in the seminal Tafsir al-Jalalayn — meaning “The Commentary of the Two Jalals,” named after its two Egyptian authors: Al-Suyuti (1445-1505), a brilliant multidisciplinary scholar; and his mentor Jalalu’d-Din al-Mahalli (1389-1459). The great contemporary Dutch Islamologist Johannes J.G. Jansen notes in his treatise “The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt,” Tafsir al-Jalalayn remains one of the most popular as well as the most authoritative Koranic commentaries in Egypt.
Here are the glosses on 5:60, 5:64, and 5: 82 from Tafsir al-Jalalayn:
[5:60] … those whom Allah has cursed and put far away from His mercy and with whom he is angry — turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs by transmogrification — and who worshipped false gods. These are the Jews … “False gods” refers to Shayṭān [Satan]. They [the Jews] worship him by obeying him. Such people are in a worse situation — because they will be in the Fire — and further from the right way (the Path of the Truth) [i.e., Islam].
[5:64] When their circumstances became reduced because of their denial of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, after they had previously been the wealthiest of people, the Jews say “Allah’s hand is chained” — implying that He is unable to send provision to them and that He is miserly. Allah is far exalted above that. Allah continues by saying: Their [the Jews’] hands are chained — and kept them from performing good actions as a supplication against them — and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are open wide — and emphatic description of generosity, and the hands are singled out for mention since what the generous give of their property, they give with their hands — and He gives however He wills — expanding and constricting and no one can object. What has been sent down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence and rejection of it. We have cast enmity and hatred between them — each group opposing the others — until the Day of Rising. Each time they [the Jews] kindle the fire of war against the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace Allah extinguishes it. Whenever they try to do that, Allah repels them. They [the Jews] rush about the earth corrupting it through acts of disobedience. Allah does not love corrupters and will punish them.
[5:82] You, Muhammad, will find that the most hostile people to those who believe [i.e., the Muslims] are the Jews and the idolaters … on account of the intensity of their unbelief and ignorance and their preoccupation with following their desires.
Morsi’s conjoining of this doctrinal Islamic Jew-hatred to annihilationist jihadism against the Jews of Israel is also entirely consistent with mainstream, classical Islamic tenets.
Muhammad’s brutal conquest and subjugation of the Medinan Jews and their subsequent expulsion by one of his companions, the (second) “Rightly Guided” Caliph Umar, epitomize permanent, archetypal behavior patterns Islamic Law deemed appropriate to Muslim interactions with Jews. George Vajda’s analysis of the anti-Jewish motifs in the hadith remains the definitive work on this subject. Vajda concluded that according to the hadith, stubborn malevolence is the Jews defining worldly characteristic: rejecting Muhammad and refusing to convert to Islam out of jealousy, envy and even selfish personal interest lead them to acts of treachery, in keeping with their inveterate nature: “ … sorcery, poisoning, assassination held no scruples for them.”
These archetypes sanction Muslim hatred towards the Jews, and the admonition to, at best, “subject [the Jews] to Muslim domination,” as dhimmis (as per Koran 9:29), treated “with contempt,” under certain “humiliating arrangements.”
As also characterized in the hadith, and analyzed by Vajda, Muslim eschatology (end of times theology) highlights the Jews’ supreme hostility to Islam. Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjâl — the Muslim equivalent of the Anti-Christ — or according to another tradition, the Dajjâl is himself Jewish.
At his appearance, other traditions maintain that the Dajjâl will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan wrapped in their robes and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjâl is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered — everything will deliver them up except for the so-called gharkad tree, as per the canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Number 6985) included in the 1988 Hamas Covenant (in article 7).
After 20 years of Jeremiah Wright BHO has no trouble with Morsi. In fact he feels right at home.
Exactly they are the same,Morsi like Obama will cetainly tell you that he heard nothing!There will always be some idiots to believe them!
“Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest ” P. Simon, “The Boxer”
By his 20 year attendance in Jeromy Wright’s so-called church, by his saying “The Arabic Call to Prayer is the most beautiful sound on Earth”, by his celebrating Ramadan in the White House, by his 2009 speech in Cairo praising Islam, by his call to go back to the pre 1967 war borders, by his giving the Muslim Brotherhood and their auxiliaries entrance to the White House, the State Department and even the military, by his deep bowing to the Saudi King, by his declaring “The future does not belong to those who insult the prophet of Islam” – By each of these things Obama’s calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer is almost inconceivable.
Hillary is the same way. Much like BHO, the Clintons will back the Muslims at the expense of Jews and Christians, every chance they get.
What happened to [Send] ???
In any case, Mr Bostom’s article will not be appearing in the New York Times or the Washington Post.
As someone originally from an Arab country, I listened to this Islamic crap all my life. Western ignorance re: Islam always amazed me, the willful blindness astonishing. Learning what Islam is all about will cost the West dearly.
“The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, commenting aptly about these events, observed that the cancellation proved “even so-called Muslim moderates share the ideology of hate, violence and death towards the Jewish state.”
In this country, especially in the Obama administration, you still have this fiction that some people cling to that there are “moderate” Muslims out there that should and need to be embraced. Sure. I’d like to meet one of them. If a DEVOUT Muslim literally follows the Koran, he can’t help but be bigoted against Jews and “infidels” (everybody that isn’t a Muslim). The Koran clearly tells teaches them to hate everybody that doesn’t believe in Islam.
The few Muslims that are around that really do want to co-exist with other nations, peoples, and religions, are NOT the devout Sharia-loving Muslims you find in most parts of the world. These individuals are similar to Christians that are Christians in name only, but don’t take the religion too seriously. In short, the real moderate Muslims are very similar to moderate Christians, who probably take a few lessons from their religious upbringing and tend to disregard the fanaticism that goes with the more severe forms of Islam that are out there.
Unfortunately, these types of more secular Muslims are few and far between and certainly are not in the majority in this world. Far from it. They are certainly in the minority and the basic form of Islam you see in places like North Africa looks just like the brand Morsi and his fellow thugs cling to in Egypt.
You are not going to change these people. They have been around for generations and what makes them dangerous now is that idiots like Obama and Clinton have gotten rid of the arab dictators that used to keep these mental patients on a tight leash. Now that people like Mubarak and Gaddafi are gone, these crazies are taking over whole nations and we can see the results. Egypt is going the way of Iran and Libya is now the new Somalia on the Mediterranean. Groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are now taking over whole nations, with Syria about to be the next victim. The Democrats don’t understand the violent forces they have unleashed on the world. And if I were the people in Washington, I would be afraid of what the next 9/11 will bring to this country, given now that radical Islamists are in charge in places like Egypt, Libya, Mali, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, and lets not even talk about Pakistan and Afghanistan.
they’re smarter than you, because they’ve got you thinking that they’re idiots
they’re in league with the brotherhood and deliberately taking america down
taking Israel down, too.
Frankly speaking, the true idiots here in America are the vast majority of Jewish voters.
And most of all among them, the truly idiotic Rabbis for Obama.
Note that when they show nasty cartoons of “Zionists”, they always look like non-Zionist (or anti-Zionist) religious Jews. Not to mention that such tend to be the victims of terrorist attacks. So whom are they kidding?
To paraphrase Niccolo Machiavelli, Israel must know there are two ways of surviving, the one by negotiations, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is not likely to work with hyenas, it is necessary to have recourse to the second. Israel is thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast and must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. Israel must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves and if necessary utterly destroy them.
They weren’t born to walk on water
They weren’t born to sack and slaughter
But on their soul, they weren’t born
To stoop and knuckle under
They can again learn to steal some thunder
They can again learn to work some wonder
And when the gauntlet’s down,
It’s time to rise and climb the sky
And soon the moon will smoulder
And the winds will drive
Yes, Israel grows older but it’s soul remains alive
All those tremulous stars still glitter
They will survive
Let their hearts grow colder and as bitter as a falcon in the dive
There was a dream, a dying ember
There was a dream, they may not yet remember
But they will resurrect that dream
Though rivers stream and hills grow steeper
For in the Middle East where life gets cheaper
Oh, here in this Hell the blood runs deeper
And when the final duel is near
They will lift their spear and fly
Piercing into the sky and higher
And the strong will thrive
Yes, the weak will cower while the fittest will survive
If they wait for the darkest hour
Till they spring alive
Then with claws of molten fire, they will devour like a falcon in the dive!
‘In Context’: Muhammad Morsi’s (Islamically Correct) Jew-Hatred.
One could surmise that the above would also include, one Barack Obama. The proverb below, just may explain his inclusion..
“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck”
Islam, like Christianity, is a derivative religion–a grotesque imitation of Judaism. Muslim Jew-hatred, like Christian Jew-hatred is rooted in jealousy and shame flowing from the inescapable truth that no imitation is as good as the original.
Why are Jews called betrayers and God-killers? Projection, pure and simple. Consider the religious history of a modern Syrian. In Abraham’s day he was a fanatical star and stone (meteorite) worshiping child sacrificer. Then he became a fanatical Hellenist. Then he became a fanatical Christian. Finally, he became a fanatical Muslim. With each religious conversion he betrayed and discarded the god or gods of his father.
Through all these milennia of Syrian theological flip-flopping, the Jew remained steadfastly loyal to his one unseen and unknowable deity. It is only natural that a contemporary Syrian Muslim accuses the Jew of betrayal and deicide. Sooner that than look in the mirror.
David, so only Judaism is good, eh? Enjoy this passage: (This is Moses speaking.)
“Go into their towns. Kill all the men, all the women and all the boys. But keep the little virgins for your pleasure.” -Numbers 31:17
He was having a bad day.
BTW I have read a thousand books on Judaism and never heard this.
It doesn’t fit with the Judaism of the Talmudic age which effectively ended capital punishment in Judea around 400 BC.
Morsi is an ape. Possibly a pig, too
(really not fair to apes (which are smart) and pigs (which are just pigs).
At the heart of this problem is the fact that the Koran and Islam were built on the run as it were. Of the world’s major religions, it is the only one created from the ground up in the throes of military conquest.
Many of the Koran’s injunctions are centered around managing captured populations, and in the case of the 7th and 8th centuries, that means Christians and Jews. That was the only game in town and Islam itself borrows heavily from both religions, which antedate Islam by centuries.
The marriage is so complete it is said that Cecil B. Demille used the Koran to find stories about Moses for his film, “The Ten Commandments.”
The greatest crime of Israel is that those Jews are still looked at, from an Islamic fundamentalist viewpoint, as recalcitrant second class citizens who have successfully thrown off the yoke of Islam. The greatest crime of the Jews is that they are not Muslims, since Israel, the so-called “Zionists,” basically do what men like Morsi give official sanction to – namely create a state officially ethnic and religious.
In fact, the only thing Jews in Israel do “wrong” from an Islamic standpoint, is succeed as non-Muslims. Otherwise the general philosophical and intellectual view of a nation are twins, one of the other.
No surprise the political Left sides against Israel, generally speaking, since the Left are the masters of Orwellian flip-flopping where hypocrisy is not only endemic but the basis of their philosophy.
On top of all this, Egypt has a thing about Israel due to the humiliation of the ’67 and ’73 wars, in addition to the failure of Egypt to help stop a nascent Israel’s creation in ’48. In line with Egypt’s shame, they have named freeway overpasses and holidays after their ’73 defeat, in addition to a museum. This is how goofy people turn defeat into victory, love into hate, and racism into justice.
“Wake up” Obama?
The Obama who’s bosom buddies with Rashid Khalidi? Who not only took a class under Edward Said, but also developed and maintained a friendship?
Beg pardon, but he IS awake. He’s long since made his decision. He knows.
There must be something in the Arabic language or more likely the public rhetoric in Arab countries that lends itself to excess. If you look at the record, Jews and Moslems have had a more healthy relationship than Jews and Christians over the long haul.
That is not saying a lot.
Mmmm Bob the Koran calls for all the Jews (descendants of apes and pigs) to be KILLED. All it stipulates for KAFFIRS (unbelievers Christians,Hindus , Buddhists etc. ) is that they either convert, become tribute paying Dhimmies or die. So exactly HOW are Jews in a more ‘healthy’ than that?
Pragamatist, Whatever the Koran says or does not say, the fact is, there were healthy active Jewish communities under Islamic rule. Alexandria, Baghdad, Damascus, Turkey. Interestingly, the Jewish community in Spain was brought to an end by the reconquista, (which was the recqapture of Spain by the Christians. As far as I know, there was nothing as far ranging as the Inquistion under Islamic rule.
Quran Defined
Mohammed’s version of Mein Kampf, revered and esteemed by all faithful Muslims as the world of god.