‘In Context’: Muhammad Morsi’s (Islamically Correct) Jew-Hatred
Promoters of modern jihad genocide have repeatedly invoked Islam’s Jew-exterminating eschatology. Hajj Amin el-Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Muslim jihadist who became, additionally, a full-fledged Nazi collaborator and ideologue in his endeavors to abort a Jewish homeland and destroy world Jewry, composed a 1943 recruitment pamphlet for Balkan Muslims entitled, “Islam and the Jews.” This incendiary document was rife with the anti-Semitic Koranic verses cited herein, as well as Jew-hating motifs from the hadith, and concluded with the apocalyptic canonical hadith describing the Jews’ annihilation.
Forty-five years later, the same hadith was incorporated into the 1988 Hamas Covenant, making clear its own aspirations for Jew annihilation.
Presently, according to polling data published in July, 2011, 73% of Palestinian Muslims surveyed agree with the annihilationist dictates of this canonical hadith.
The historical treatment of Jews in Muslim societies, including Egypt, since the advent of Islam — chronic oppression, punctuated by outbursts of mass anti-Jewish violence, forced conversion to Islam, or expulsion — has been consistent with such sacralized religious bigotry. Thus the dehumanizing Koranic references to Jews as apes (or apes and pigs) were used explicitly for polemical incitement to large scale, annihilationist pogroms against dhimmi Jewish communities in Granada (within mythically “tolerant” Muslim Spain) during 1066, Baghdad and its environs, proliferating into Iran at the end of the 13th century and southern Morocco at the close of the 15th century.
Furthermore, all of the following events wrought tremendous devastation to Egyptian dhimmi Jews under Muslim rule, up to a millennium before the advent of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928: the murderous persecutions of al-Hakim during the early 11th century, one of which was timed for Passover in 1012; Jews in Alexandria and Cairo being pogromed and plundered in 1047, 1168, 1265, and 1324; and Sultan Baybars in the 13th century blaming Jews for starting a plague, and subjecting them to extortion, massacre, and expulsion.
Centuries later, the great scholar of Arabic E. W. Lane reported after nearly a decade of residence in both Cairo and Luxor (through 1835) on the difference between the attitude of Egyptian Muslims toward Jews and Christians, highlighting the influence of Koran 5:82:
They [the Jews] are held in the utmost contempt and abhorrence by the Muslims in general, and they are said to bear a more inveterate hatred than any other people to the Muslims and the Muslim religion. It is said in the Koran [quoting 5:82]: “Thou shalt surely find the most violent all men to those who have believed to be the Jews.
Lane further notes:
It is a common saying among the Muslims in this country, “Such one hates me with the hate of the Jews.” We cannot wonder, then, that the Jews are detested far more than are the Christians. Not long ago, they used often to be jostled in the streets of Cairo, and sometimes beaten for merely passing on the right hand of a Muslim. At present, they are less oppressed: but still they scarcely ever dare to utter a word of abuse when reviled or beaten unjustly by the meanest Arab or Turk; for many a Jew has been put to death upon a false and malicious accusation of uttering disrespectful words against the Koran or the Prophet. It is common to hear an Arab abuse his jaded ass, and, after applying to him various opprobrious epithets, end by calling the beast a Jew.
Subsequent 19th century accounts validate and expand upon Lane’s narrative regarding the pervasive Egyptian Muslim Jew-hatred which was endemic well before the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood. For example, the French surgeon A.B. Clot who resided in Egypt from 1825 to 1848 and served Muhammad Ali as a medical adviser, earning the honorific title, “Bey”, made these confirmatory observations written in 1840 — five years after Lane’s travelogue first appeared in 1835:
The Israelite race is the one that the Muslims hate the most. They think that the Jews hate Islam more than any other nation … Speaking of a fierce enemy, the Muslims say: “He hates me the way the Jews hate us.” During the past century, the Israelites were often put to death because they were accused rightly or wrongly to have something disrespectful about the Koran.
And three decades later, such hateful attitudes directed at the Jews specifically, persisted among Egyptian Muslims, as recorded in 1873 by Moritz Lüttke:
The Muslim hates no other religion as he hates that of the Jews … even now that all forms of political oppression have ceased, at a time when such great tolerance is shown to the Christian population, the Arabs still bear the same contemptuous hatred of the Jews. It is a commonplace occurrence, for example, for two Arabs reviling each other to call each other Ibn Yahudi (or “son of a Jew”) as the supreme insult … it should be mentioned that in these cases, they pronounce the word Yahudi in a violent and contemptuous tone that would be hard to reproduce.
Jacob Landau’s modern analysis of Egyptian Jewry in the 19th century elucidates the predictable outcome of these bigoted archetypes “constantly repeated in various forms” — the escalation from rhetorical to physical violence against Jews:
It is interesting to note that even the fallahin, the Egyptian peasantry (almost all of them Muslim) certainly did not know many Jews at close quarters, but nevertheless would revile them. The enmity some Muslims felt for the Jews incited them to violence, persecution, and physical assault, as in 1882 … Hostility was not necessarily the result of envy, for many Jews were poverty-stricken and even destitute and were sometimes forced to apply for financial assistance to their co-religionists abroad.
From the 1930s onward, traditional Egyptian Islamic Jew-hatred was complemented by the influx of European Anti-Semitism, especially Nazi motifs, which resonated with the Muslim masses. During World War II, after the creation of Israel in 1947-48 and following the Suez war of 1956, anti-Jewish pogroms, riots, and finally government expropriations and expulsions caused the final liquidation of the Egyptian Jewish community.
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.