The conclusion that Israel’s eradication has become “Iran’s principal foreign policy objective” does not seem unwarranted. 95 Matthias Kuntzel has highlighted, appropriately, the unique dangers posed by Iran’s fusion of a martyrdom mentality with nuclear weapons capability and Holocaust denial. 96
Holocaust scholar Daniel Goldhagen has put forth the controversial argument that the Nazis melded centuries of annihilationist German Jew hatred to a state machinery capable of implementing the systematic mass murder of Jews. 97 Citing the independent statements of Iranian Presidents Rafsanjani (from December 2001) and Ahmadinejad (from October 2005), in a November 3, 2005 opinion editorial Goldhagen cautioned: 98
Two Iranian presidents have now openly spoken about destroying Israel, with Ahmadinejad defiantly repeating his genocidal hopes again … despite the world’s condemnation of him.
Goldhagen’s visceral concern that “it would be folly for the world to treat the Iranian leaders’ words as anything but an articulation of their intent,” remained oddly de-contextualized for an historian of anti-Semitism with his particular mindset. 99 Yet four centuries of najis-inspired Jew hatred in Shi’ite Iran, accompanied by pogroms, forced conversions, and other less violent but continuous forms of social and religious persecution — none of which are ever mentioned by Goldhagen — surely meets his own prior standard, regardless of its validity, of an established “annihilationist” mentality in Germany. 100
Irrespective of the controversy surrounding his earlier work on Nazi Germany, Goldhagen’s apparent ignorance of Shi’ite Iran’s centuries-old history of Jew hatred is pathognomonic of the current state of “scholarship” on Islamic antisemitism. Such ignorance may also explain the inability of our intellectual and policymaking elites to appreciate the prevalence and depth of support for such annihilationist views in contemporary Shi’ite Iran.
Iran must not be permitted to acquire a nuclear weapons capability — certainly now, under the current regime, and into the foreseeable future.
References
62. Ibid, p. 144
63. Ibid, p. 144
64. Ibid, p. 144
65. Ibid, p. 145
66. Ibid, p. 145
67. Ibid, pp. 34-35
68. Andrew G. Bostom “Confronting Hamas’ Genocidal Jew-Hatred.” The American Thinker, January 02, 2009 http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/confronting_hamas_genocidal_je.html
69. Andrew G. Bostom. “Antisemitism in the Qur’an: Motifs and Historical Manifestations” Jihad Watch, April 7, 2008, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/04/antisemitism-in-the-quran-motifs-and-historical-manifestations-print.html
70. Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, pp. 144-145
71. Bostom. “Antisemitism in the Qur’an: Motifs and Historical Manifestations”
72. Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, pp. 40-41
73. Ibid, pp. 37-39
74. Ibid, p. 35
75. Ibid, p. 35
76. Ibid, pp. 74,229,232-234
77. Ibid, pp. 294-295
78. Ibid, p. 143
79. Ibid, pp. 66-74,265-278,283-287
80. Ibid, pp. 66-74,265-278,283-287
81. Ibid, p. 54
82. Ibid, pp. 66-76,229,231,233
83. Salo Baron. “The Historical Outlook of Maimonides,” Proc of the Amer Acad for Jewish Res, vol. 6, 1934-35, p. 82; Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, p.21
84. Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, pp. 66-76
85. Ibid, pp. 235-260
86. Ibid, p.63
87. Ibid, p.63
88. Andrew G. Bostom, “Confronting Hamas’ Genocidal Jew-Hatred.”
89. Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, p. 63
90. Ibid, p. 63
91. Ibid, p. 63
92. Ibid, p. 63
93. Moshe Sharon, “We only get one strike”
94. Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, p
95. Ibid, p. 149
96. Ibid, p. 149
97. Ibid, p. 149
98. Ibid, p. 149
99. Ibid, p. 150
100. Ibid, p. 150
Very well presented, sir.
But, but..
Islam is a religion of peace….
References beginning at #62? I seem to have missed the previous 61 items. Other than that ‘little’ thing a rather interesting work.
Thank you
All three parts on Islam were excellent, except allah was not defined. Why? This is half of the heart of the matter. Mohammed being the other half.
I can see why secular humanists side with Islam as a religion of peace, as the world continues to hate the Jews with an supernatural zeal.
ROPMA!
Mr. Andrew Bostom needs to do a better job of communicating the context of Quran.
Verse 2:62 of Quran is one of the strongest message of unity:
“Surely, those who believe, those who are Jewish, the Christians, and the converts, anyone who
1) believes in GOD, and
2) believes in the last day, and
3) leads a righteous life, will receive their recompense from their Lord.
They have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve”
Also people are responsible to read the Quran and make their own judgment per verse 17:36 of Quran:
“You shall not accept any information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them.”
May GOD allow Mr. Bostom to present the scripture and its message and not cherry pick verses of 2:61 and 2:65 while leaving 2:62 out of his analysis.
Why do we need anyone’s interpretation? Here is an easy to read English Quran for the interested readers “Quran The Final Testament” by Rashad Khalifa.
In a perverse sort of way, it’s comforting to know that the Jews always were numero uno on the Muslims’ shitlist. You might otherwise have thought it was recent phenomenon and blamed it on the Zionists.
In the same perverted vein it’s also nice to see the Christians, for all their transcendent primacy in every civilized human endeavor, come in second. Means Christians got less mojo. They’re not a psychic, existential threat that brings followers of the True Prophet and His Rightful Nephew and Heir (PBUH) to frothing at the mouth and chewing the rug.
Annihilationism. Seems we were here some three millenia past. Fellow named Haman. The Kingdom of Persians and Medes. What kind of a merry-go-round is this?
You might think the Persians would cut the Jews some slack. I mean, we knew each other long before Mohamed was born. Back when Persia was a great empire. When Persian culture flourished and Persian art was the wonder and admiration of all the world. Back before the Arab Prophet’s fanatical iconoclasts destroyed it all– flushed Persian culture down a memory hole and reduced Persia to a stagnant Arabian backwater.
A modern Israeli journalist would say that in their earliest encounter with Islam, the Jews missed an opportunity for peace. Mohamed like Martin Luther a thousand years later, sincerely admired the Jewish religion and came to the Jews in friendship. The learned and wealthy Jews of Medina turned the illiterate Arab away with contempt. Allah’s Holy Messenger was, to borrow from the humiliated and outraged Dr. Martin a millennium later, just a “dumb goy.”
Had the Jews of Medina been more inclusive and welcomed Mohamed and his ideas for expansion, the whole world might be Jewish today.
As for a nuclear armed Iran, that is a foregone conclusion unless the current regime is overturned.
I suppose the Jews didn’t want to worship a false moon god. I can’t blame them.
There are some places the Christians are in first place on the hate list. I guess it depends on what day it is.
ROPMA!
just a practical reality regarding the goyish kup. what jew can listen to that whole weird Allah thing. just give us the outline, allah. and btw don’t sit down and don’t have a piece of fruit. same now as then.
Would they pull the trigger when they have the bomb, and their back is on the wall and cornered by their own people. I would think so, because thats their last Gambit. That is why they hurrying the bomb up.
An excellent series of essays. Would that our leaders would read them, as well as the works they’re drawn from.
(Note 94 is missing a page reference, btw.)
They are only obeying orders. Allah has ordered Muslims to exterminate the Jews as a compulsory religious duty: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/02/muslims-duty-is-to-exterminate-jews-in.html