[ May 7, 2024 ]
After 1,400 years of jihad against Jews everywhere that Muslims and Jews have lived in proximity, the Orthodox Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who serves as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, says that he finds it “alarming” that so many Muslims in the United Kingdom are anti-Semitic. But given Islam’s texts, teachings and history, what else did he expect?
Rabbi Mirvis recently participated in an online debate about Israel’s normalization of relations with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), along with the UAE’s Minister for International Cooperation, Reem Ebrahim Al-Hashimy; former UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon; and Britain’s former Middle East Minister Alistair Burt. In the course of the debate, Mirvis referred to a survey that found that 44 percent of Muslims in Britain believed in hateful and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and remarked: “This is an alarming rate, it’s nearly half of the Muslims in the UK. That underlines how crucially important engagement, dialogue and understanding is… There’s so much potential relating to Jewish-Muslim relations. I believe the Abraham Accords have unlocked certain doors for us.”
Yes, they have, but they have done so by laying aside the Islamic orthodoxy that inculcates this deep hatred of Jews in so many Muslims. If Rabbi Mirvis were to take the time to open the Qur’an, he would find that it 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).
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There are more exhortations to violence in Islamic tradition. Muhammad said this, according to a hadith:
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. (Sahih Muslim 6985)
Many Muslims take this genocidal saying very seriously. Such passages have induced Muslims throughout the last fourteen centuries, as The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS shows in detail, to brutalize and kill Jews. There are innumerable examples of this. 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:
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.
Islamic apologists in the West today don’t want people to know all this and more about the shameful history of Islamic antisemitism, because of the jihad against the modern-day State of Israel. But Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, given that he has a position of considerable prestige and influence, should know it, and should not be surprised that a large number of Muslims in Britain know it as well, and approve. In light of Islam’s deeply rooted anti-Semitism, what is surprising here is actually that the percentage of anti-Semites is as low as it is.
But Rabbi Mirvis and all other rabbis, and all clerics of other faiths, should be fully aware of the wellsprings of Islamic anti-Semitism. In this case, perhaps more than is usually so, knowledge is power.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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25 Comments
3 years ago
Duh…..It is probably 88% of Arabs that hate Jews not 44.
3 years ago
Muslim Jew hatred is so widespread that there’s even hatred from as far away as Malaysia….?…So far away? Why the hate? They just do because that’s what the others do.
Muslims hate because they think they’re supposed to. They don’t get along with anybody, Hindus, Christians, and Jews, in addition to smaller religions elsewhere.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Muslims hate Jews because it is commanded in their Quran. The only Muslim that doesn’t hate Jews is a Muslim who is ignorant of the Islamic scriptures and who hasn’t attended a mosque service led by a normal orthodox Muslim.
3 years ago
Reply to
created4el
You should check out just how much blatant contempt there is for nonjews in the Talmud!
3 years ago
G-d know why pr how the Rabbi picked 44%; Jew-hatred amongst Muslims in Britain or elsewhere exceeds 99.9%.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Indeed, Felix; I hope you and your had a Happy Thanksgiving. I don’t want to mention the nation’s current situation because that will negate any happiness. Take care, stay healthy and safe.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
He probably got a survey result where about half of the Muslims lied about what they truly believe. It’s called taqiya. In other words if 50% of the Muslims hate Jews and lied about it but 44% of them were being honest about their Jew hatred… then you’ll be getting closer to the actual number of Muslims who hate Jews.
3 years ago
It’s higher than that.
WAKE UP!
Buy a Quran and understand why.
3 years ago
What rock has the Rabbi been hiding under? 44%??? Double…at least!
3 years ago
What rock has the Rabbi been hiding under? 44%??? Double…at least!
3 years ago
says Captain Obvious. No doubt hoping that he will be the last Jew the alligators eat.
3 years ago
Yeah hate is a hard word.
But I think 99,5 % “dont like” Jews.
And this 44% means us (the western world) at best.
3 years ago
Why is it alarming that Muslim hate Jews… Go back to Ishmael and Esau….. Where is this Rabbi’s brain?
3 years ago
A Jew finds it hard that 44% parasitic muslims hate Jews? Well, of course it’s hard to believe. It should be 100% mainly because their doctrine of hate demands that they hate Jews and infidels.
3 years ago
Robert Spencer, right on target as usual which is why he’s been banned from the United Kaliphate along with Ms. Geller.
3 years ago
Left wing dufus and UK PC psycho enabler. Was he elected to that position, or appointed by the UK government?
3 years ago
It is in their book. They have said they hate Jews and infidels, I tend to take them at their word.
3 years ago
Well the that “rabbi” must be a foo king idiot. Islam is no different than Judaism when it comes to the religious intent to convert or kill off all “Infidels or GOYIM”.
That is an in your face statement. Christianity was no different in the past as they carried the same intent for centuries up until the last 100 years or less.
Religions are the teachings of men and not truly the difference between right and wrong. Do not be manipulated by the deceptions and teachings of men or their opinions. Right and wrong often have few gray areas.
Let no man come between you and your Creator.
3 years ago
It is alarming that the chief rabbi is so ignorant that he believes “only” 40% hate Jews.
3 years ago
I thought muslim Jew hated would be around 95%, so 44% is not bad. Fk them anyway!
3 years ago
Problem is political Islam has been allowed to spread its indoctrination of their views making it an offence to be Christian in Christian country celebrating our festivities our cards even Easter with infamous Cadbury at one time stating they were going to remove the word EASTER off its eggs which is deeply offensive to Christians but all because of Islam yet muslims like though not all, they enjoy the festivities and it is a time that they have their biggest time to make money so it’s the haters sticking to the book that insists to hate Jews and Christians that is the problem for which it should be declared anti Semitic hate readings should be banned . France has it worse still so all world leaders should be pushing against hate speech being taught by foreign imams in mosques in western countries in the same way we aren’t allowed to build churches and preach and convert people as God gave all his children freedom to choose but islamisation in jails , schools colleges unis must stop ! Most muslim people live in peace but are being encouraged by these imams preaching hate while Jesus teaches us to love and forgive our enemies, Islam preaches the opposite but with peace in the Middle East happening it is our governments who need to make it clear that peace love and forgiveness is our way and culture and that should be made clear, that hate has no place in our civilised countries. We pray for world peace not world domination and we need to be united to fight Covid , recover , built new homes that our people need , things that matter, we shouldn’t be having Jewish people afraid to live in our countries, we should be kind to one another and look out for each other , however the lockdown has brought about the worst in society with food hoarding along with not accepting Covid exists , conspiracy theories leading to terrible behaviour towards others and lack of respect has worsened in every way yet in muslim countries they seem to have a better grip on dealing with Covid as there they have to obey ! Sadly it’s the same few muslim countries that are encouraging anti Semitic and anti Christian or other minorities hate behaviour which the cowardly UN & EU won’t address with regard to the minority of people committing heinous acts !
