[ May 3, 2024 ]
Fake news is a big problem today: see Time Magazine’s vicious new cover. But fake news also extends to rewriting history to influence public policy today.
In the course of denying the Holocaust in a speech last month, as reported by MEMRI, Kuwaiti Muslim cleric Sheikh Jihad Al-‘Ayesh claimed that Hitler began “tormenting and persecuting” because he “knew the truth” about them: “The Jews were banished, tortured and annihilated because of their deeds. They were not banished for being Jews.” He added: “There were Jews in the Islamic countries and caliphates as well, but we never killed them just for being Jews. No, it never happened.” Yet it did. And if we fail to remember this today, we will, as the old adage goes, be condemned to repeat it.
When Al-‘Ayesh says that Muslims never killed Jews just for being Jews, he is lying, and relying on the historical ignorance of his audience. In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I detail many instances in which Muslims did exactly that. In 1013, Berbers from North Africa entered Spain and took Córdoba in 1013, they began massacring Jews, and initiated a wholesale slaughter of Jews in Granada. And again in 1066, rioting Muslims, enraged by the humiliation of a Jew who had been appointed to rule over Muslims, murdered four thousand Jews in Granada. The twelfth century Muslim historian Ibn Baydhaq detailed how the Almohads treated the Jews as they advanced:
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Abd al-Mumin…the leader of the Almohads after the death of Muhammad ibn Tumart the Mahdi…captured Tlemcen [in the Maghreb] and killed all those who were in it, including the Jews, except those who embraced Islam…. [In Sijilmasa] one hundred and fifty persons were killed for clinging to their [Jewish] faith…. All the cities in the Almoravid state were conquered by the Almohads. One hundred thousand persons were killed in Fez on that occasion, and 120,000 in Marrakesh. The Jews in all [Maghreb] localities [conquered]…groaned under the heavy yoke of the Almohads; many had been killed, many others converted; none were able to appear in public as Jews.
The likes of Jihad Al-‘Ayesh don’t want you to know this, and much more about the sorry history of Islamic antisemitism, because of the jihad against the modern-day State of Israel. Revisionist history is designed to influence the contemporary debate. The more that Al-‘Ayesh can convince Muslims today that Jews in the Holocaust got nothing but what they deserved, and had responded with ingratitude to kindness shown them through the ages, the more he and his allies can justify the “Palestinian” genocidal rhetoric and fanatical hatred that targets Israelis every day.
The advocates of the “Palestinian” jihad also get support from their holy book. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
The antidote to the propaganda that the believers in that hatred and incitement pump out on a regular basis is the truth. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived by the likes of Jihad Al-‘Ayesh. Click here to preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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16 Comments
5 years ago
Never believe anything uttered by a man wearing a table cloth on his head! What a goofy looking guy! Much less by a man wearing a bowl on his head either!
5 years ago
The basic ingredients of the Jewish faith emphasizes the preciousness of life and the Hebrew g-d is all knowing and truthful. The Islamic faith is based on dismemberment, mutilation and death, and their Allah and one messenger center upon deception in order to achieve their goals. These are short cuts to achieve goals just like robbing a bank to achieve the goal of becoming wealthy , or murdering to obtain insurance money. Islam is a religion based on short cuts, devoid of any worthy philosophy respecting humanity. The only thing these leaders will understand is their own decimation.
5 years ago
Muhammad led a Muslim force against the Khaybar oasis, which was inhabited by Jews — many of whom he had previously exiled from Medina. When he did so, he was not responding to any provocation.
The Muslims met the workers of Khaybar coming out in the morning with their spades and baskets. When they saw the apostle and the army they cried, ‘Muhammad with his force,’ and turned tail and fled.
Muhammad gave orders concerning Kinana: “Torture him until you extract what treasure (gold) he has.” One of the Muslims built a fire on Kinana’s chest, but Kinana would not give up his secret. When he was at the point of death, one of the Muslims beheaded him. Kinana’s wife was taken as a war prize; Muhammad claimed her for himself.
Thus when modern-day jihadists invoke Khaybar, they are recalling an aggressive, surprise raid by Muhammad which resulted in the final eradication of the once considerable Jewish presence in Arabia. To the jihadists, Khaybar means the destruction of the Jews and the seizure of their property by the Muslims.
5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Muhammad seems to have hated the Jews mostly because they rejected him and denounced him as a false prophet.
5 years ago
fake muslim
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
After facebook, twitter , even Google joins lslamofascist gang to suppress truth about islam and conservative
free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
and becase they’re well practised at killing, raping, lying, etc., they’re very good at it. In fact, it’s the ONLY THING THAT THEY’RE GOOD AT.
5 years ago
Muslums are allah about dissembling, evasion and dishonesty to the kuffar when they don’t have political power and oppression and persecution when they do.
5 years ago
Moslems practicing taquiya again. And it is well-known many Jews who tried to be kind to Moslems paid the ultimate price trying to think it would make peace with them.
Many pioneers learned that the hard way with Indians in America in some of the most gruesome horror stories you have EVER heard.
5 years ago
Taqiya – Islamic Deception. Muslims are taught to deceive the kuffar (non-Muslim) about their true beliefs in order to defend the cause of Islam and Jihad. This deception called – taqiya.
5 years ago
Jewish children as young as 13 or 14 were executed and probably beheaded as a result of Muhammad and his people’s wars against the Jews of Arabia:
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/muhammad/qurayza.aspx
The Jewish tribes of Banu Nadir, Banu Qurayza and Banu Qaynuqa were nearly all decimated as a result of the Muslims’ aggression against the Jews, and the Jewish settlement of Yathrib was stolen from them and became the capital of the new Muslim Caliphate as Medina.
5 years ago
Al-‘Ayesh saying that Muslims never killed Jews just for being Jews, is like saying members of “The 72 Virgins Dating Service” don’t kill Muslims because they are Muslims.
5 years ago
Al-‘Ayesh saying that Muslims never killed Jews just for being Jews, is like saying members of “The 72 Virgins Dating Service” don’t kill Muslims because they are Muslims.
5 years ago
The savages manufactured a “religion” behind which to hide their misogynistic cult.
