WHY MUSLIMS HATE EVERYONE
- From: Infidel <mormoninfo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:11:52 -0700 (PDT)
Author links Koran to intolerance of Jews and Christians
Andrew Bostom, author of "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism" links
the Koran and centuries of tradition to Muslim intolerance of both
Jews and Christians in countries dominated by Islam.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Spero News
By Martin Barillas
In an exclusive interview, author and physician Andrew G. Bostom
showed how familiar he is with the Koran and subsequent commentary and
Islamic law but also with the history of relations between Islam and
Judaism. His newest book "The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism: from
Sacred Texts to Solemn History" (Prometheus Books) deserves to go on
the reference shelf for quick consultation by any journalist,
researcher, or anyone else curious about Islam and its centuries of
relations with Christianity and Judaism. And anyone who wishes to
learn whether Islam is indeed a religion of peace will learn how the
Koran itself has inspired some Muslims to violence against Jews (and
Christians) ever since Muhammad came out of the wastes of the Arabian
peninsula 1200 years ago.
Asked whether it is possible for Christians and Jews to live
unmolested while living in Muslim lands, given the centuries-old
custom of imposing not only humiliations but a head-tax called “jizya”
on them, Bostom answered "There is no sign of that yet." If indeed
there were a rejection of such practices, asked Bostom, "then where is
the outcry from Islamic scholars? Where is the outcry from the Al
Azhar (the renowned center of Islamic learning in Cairo)? Where is the
protest against the violence and extremism in Iraq?" Even in 2008,
Coptic Christians in Egypt have had to contend with violence from
Muslim extremists and onerous requirements for repairing or building
churches. Likewise in areas controlled by Muslim extremists in Iraq
beyond the normal scope of US forces, Christians are being subjected
to kidnappings, murder, and exile.
Being a physician, Bostom referred to the various manifestations of
Islamic intolerance or tolerance of "People of the Book" (al- Kitâb) -
Jews and Christians - with a reference to medical terminology. "A
forme fruste is medical term that refers to an incomplete
manifestation of a disease entity", in reference to treatment meted
out to Christians and Jews in Islamic countries. "I don't see signs
that Muslim practice has relegated these teachings to the back
burner."
In the first part of his book, Bostom probes in an essay "Islamic
Antisemitism - Jew-Hatred in Islam" - noting that more than a thousand
years ago Jews in the Middle East were so afflicted by hatred and
depredations directed at them by Muslims that they had to invent a
word to describe it. Jews, and Christians, were forced under Islamic
law to wear distinctive clothing, show deference to Muslims, and pay
the jizya. While the jizya or head-tax is not now generally imposed,
it is now re-emerging in places like Iraq, said Bostom, where
Christians are compelled to pay ransom and extortion money by Muslim
gangs. Christians, like Jews, are forced to leave or face violence.
When asked whether he sees a possibility of change, Bostom said “I
can’t give up hope”, even while “It is at most a remote possibility
that the region is headed back towards some sort of individualism.”
Nevertheless, said Bostom, there are courageous individuals within
Islam such as Ibn Warraq and Ayaan Hirsi Ali who condemn Islam's
intolerance of non-Muslims.
But the most scathing charge made by Bostom in his new book is that
anti-Semitism is actually essential to Islam and has roots in the
Koran itself. According to Bostom, Muslim tradition holds that it was
a Jewish conspiracy that led to the poisoning death of Mohammed.
Bostom added "The with the creation of Israel, dhimmi Jews liberated
from the sharia were an unbearable affront to the Islamic order and
this has triggered, predictably, the widespread exploitation of these
eschatological motifs calling for mass destruction of the Jews."
Bostom seeks to debunk in his latest book the notion that Muslim
animosity towards Jews is confined entirely to the 20th century and
that it has been sparked by the protracted Israeli-Arab conflict. He
referred to multiple references cited by the various authors
contributing to "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism" that use Muslim
texts from different time periods and locations to prove the point
that Muslim animosity towards Jews as a people is pervasive. In the
interview, Bostom cited Sheikh Ahmad al-Farooqi Sirhindi - an Indian
Muslim of the 1500s - who is quoted "Whenever a Jew is killed, it is
for the benefit of Islam." Some modern scholars ignore or obscure this
legacy of Islam, said Bostom.
But in the first chapter of his book, Bostom notes the scholarship of
S.D Goitein who reviewed literature of one thousand years ago and who
could assert that a unique strain of Islamic Jew hatred was extant
even then in Egypt. Jews had to coin a specific term to describe
Islamic animosity while living as a barely tolerated people in such
places as Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia. Law and custom dictated that
Jews - and Christians - show deference to Muslims in all matters, wear
prescribed clothing, and even dismount their beasts of burden in the
presence of Muslims.
While acknowledging that history has been marked at times by anti-
Semitism on the part of Christians, Bostom remarked that the Muslim
version is "profoundly different and what disturbed me is the depth to
which it appears in the Koran itself." He noted that Jews are likened
to apes and swine and that in the Koran they are cursed by David, and
Jesus "Mary's son." However, the Jesus of the Koran bears no
resemblance to the Jesus known to Christians, said Bostom, while Islam
is predicted to vanquish Christianity on the day of Resurrection while
the Jews will go to hell in the Muslim eschatology.
Not only Israel, but the United States has had to contend with suicide
missions of fanatics who detonate bombs that kill themselves and
others, or immolate themselves in attacks as on September 11, 2001 in
New York and Washington DC. Bostom averred that the Muslim concept of
martyrdom varies significantly from the Judeo-Christian concept of
"witness" the translation from the Greek of the root word for martyr.
Bostom noted the work on suicide in Islam by Franz Rosenthal who
contended in a work published in 1946 that suicide is neither
sanctioned nor forbidden by Islam. Suicide, in the cause of Islam,
then is extolled by Mohammed himself and seconded by imams and
commentators of Islamic tradition ever since.
When asked specifically about Muslim inroads in Europe (especially
Spain) where its influence is growing, Bostom said such efforts are
"part of the Islamic idea of supremacy. They still believe Spain is
theirs." The efforts of Muslim leaders, such as Spain's Mansur
Escudero, are part of an effort to make that part of the world
"permanently part of Dar al Islam” said Bostom, who added that
petitions and gestures, such as Escudero's insistence that public
Muslim prayer be allowed in a Catholic church that once was a mosque
in Cordoba, are headed towards "reconquest." Southern Spain, or
Andalucía, was long a part of the Muslim world or Dar al Islam.
Thousands of Muslim immigrants from Morocco and elsewhere in the
Muslim world are coming to Spain illegally but finding refuge there.
As their presence grows, demands by the Muslim community in Spain are
becoming more insistent as it is elsewhere in Europe.
Shifting from Europe to the Mideast, Bostom referred to the Arab/
Israeli conflict. He quoted Abu Iyaad - a lieutenant of Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat and a founder of the Fatah terrorist organization
- as saying "We cannot allow historical Palestine to become another
Andalucía" as noted by author Bat Yeor. "This shows how deep-seated
these beliefs are", added Bostom.
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