Sunday, May 10, 2020

Yes, There is Islamist Anti-Semitism

Who is the he being here quoted?

American women in general he described as having "thirsty lips . . . bulging breasts . . . smooth legs," all topped off by  "the calling eye . . . [and] the provocative laugh."

The he is Sayyid Qutb, and Benny Morris selected that extract in his review of the volume, Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert.

And he quotes him again here:

The Jews, he  wrote: Free the sensual desires from their restraints and they destroy the moral foundation on which the pure Creed rests, in order that the Creed should fall into the filth which they spread so widely on the earth. They mutilate the whole of history and falsify it. . . . From such creatures who kill, massacre and defame prophets one can only expect the spilling of human blood and dirty means which would further their machinations and evil.

In an academic study of the Jew as an evil metaphor, the author

discusses the image of the Jew in its recent manifestations in Arab discourse...It contends that the “Jew” is being constructed as a functional metaphor, an all-purpose villain...it is suggested that the metaphor “Jew” has become a “cultural code” that...serves to define non-Jewish adversaries by Judaizing them and attributing to them certain supposed features of Jews, while denouncing them for their actions.

Is this perhaps a result of Zionism, of Jews defeating Arabs in the last century? 

No. For in

a letter written in 1600 by traveler William Biddulph from Jerusalem reporting that when the Turks swear, they use the curse: “If this is not true—may God make me die a Jew.” In another case, on April 17, 1722, Hajj ‘Ala’ al-Din Ibn Abu Lahiya charged a man named Hamdan for offending and cursing him in the market, saying: “Oh he who is like Hanna, Oh Jew!” Although Hamdan denied the allegation in court, two witnesses testified that he indeed had said, “Oh he who is like a Christian, oh damned, oh Jew!,” and the court ordered that he be flogged.

Sources:  Amnon Cohen, The Jewish Community of Jerusalem in the 16th Century (Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1982), 151; Michael Ish-Shalom, Christian Travels in the Holy Land: Descriptions and Sources on the History of the Jews in Palestine (Tel Aviv: Am Oved and Dvir, 1965), 309. and Amnon Cohen, Elisheva Simon-Pikali, and Ovadia Salama, Jews in the Moslem Religious Court: Society, Economy and Communal Organization in the XVIII Century, Documents from Ottoman Jerusalem (Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1996), 272.

Another issue

Jews and Judaism were explicitly applied by the followers of ‘Ali in the seventh century to the “heretical” movement of the Kharajites (Khawarij) that arose after the death of Muhammad and disrupted the Islamic empire’s political and social stability. ‘Ali’s partisans associated the adherents of this movement with the Jews by using Qur’anic texts “to expose and denounce conflicts among Muslims” and alert followers of their hypocrisy: “They invoke the book of God, but are not related to it in any way.”41 Sunni critics of the early Shi’i movements gave Shi‘i Islam Jewish paternity, claiming that it was the Jew ‘Abdallah ibn Saba’ who convinced the Muslim community to elevate ‘Ali; in return, the Shi‘ites attacked the Sunnis with the same accusation.

Sources:  Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism, 174; 175; Uri Rubin, Between Bible and Qur’an: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1999), 6 and particularly 147–67. See also Steven M. Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).

In Chapter Three of David Patterson’s Anti-Semitism and its Metaphysical Originswe read this quoted from Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Yaqoub, Al-Rahma TV, 17 January 2009:


If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving them? Of course not.... They would have been enemies even if they did not occupy a thing.... Our fighting with the Jews is eternal, and it will not end ... until not a single Jew remains on the face of the Earth.... As for you Jews, the Curse of Allah upon you, you pigs of the earth! 

Abdul Al’a Maududi also was an early proponent in the 20th century of anti-Jewishness. To his mind, Jews and the Christians 


... should be forced to pay Jizya in order to put an end to their independence and supremacy so that they should not remain rulers and sovereigns in the land. These powers should be wrested from them by the followers of the true Faith.

As Patterson notes


Islam does not understand itself to supersede Judaism and the Covenant of Torah, because, according to the Quran, the Jews had no covenant to be superseded; rather, the Jews falsified the Scriptures to suit their own evil ends (see Quran 2:59; 3:78). Indeed, Abraham was not a Jew but a Muslim (3:67), and the heir in the way of Allah was Ishmael, not Isaac (2:127). As for the Jews, the Quran declares that, far from being the people of the true Covenant, Allah has cursed them because of their refusal to believe (2:88; 4:46) and that they are damned both in this world and in the next (5:41).

With the Muslim invasion of North Africa and Spain, Muslim violence against the Jews came in its wake:

pogroms taking place in Fez in 1032 and 1033...the Muslim Ibn Tumart (ca. 1080–ca. 1130), founder of the Almohad movement, waged a campaign of extermination against the North African Jew...Then came the decrees ordering the destruction of synagogues in Egypt and Syria (1014, 1293, and 1301), Iraq (854–859 and 1344), and Yemen (1676). Jews were often forced to convert to Islam or face death, for example, in Yemen (1165 and 1678), Morocco (1275, 1465, and 1790–1792), and Baghdad (1333 and 1344).32 There was also the killing of five thousand Jews in Granada in 1066, as well as the Almohads’ slaughter of Jewish and Christian populations in Spain and North Africa from 1130 to 1232. The fifteenth century brought more Muslim violence against the Jews: in 1465 Arab mobs in Fez killed thousands of Jews, and thousands more suffered under the Ottoman conquests. In 1535, for example, there were mass killings and expulsions of Jews in Tunisia, and the Jews of Jerusalem endured numerous attacks between 1625 and 1627. Then came Ali Burzi Pasha’s massacre of hundreds of Libyan Jews in 1785, followed by the slaughter of Jews in Algeria (1805), Safed (1834, 1838), and Morocco (1859).34 There were pogroms against the Jews in Aleppo (1853), Damascus (1848 and 1890), Cairo (1844 and 1901–1902), Alexandria (1870 and 1881), and Fez (1912). Between 1864 and 1880 more than 500 Jews were murdered in Morocco.

And the blood libels in Hama (1829), Beirut (1824), and Antioch (1826). The Damascus Affair of 1840, when eight of the city’s Jews were accused of ritual murder and the pogrom in 1872 against the Jews of Smyrna in the wake of yet another blood libel.

Returning to Qutb, he professed that “the Children of Israel, both before and after Moses, tarnished and perverted his message”, that is, the message of Allah (Sayyid Qutb, Basic Principles of the Islamic Worldview, 2006, p. 207). And Jews possess “a wicked nature which is full of hatred for Islam, its Prophet and its followers” (p. 220-221).

I will stop here with just the last quote from the Hamas Covenant, Article 28


The Zionist invasion is a mischievous one...the interests of Zionism and under its directions, strive to demolish societies, to destroy values, to wreck answerableness, to totter virtues and to wipe out Islam. It stands behind the diffusion of drugs and toxics of all kinds in order to facilitate its control and expansion...Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims.
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