Spoerl / The Levantine Review Volume 2 Number 1 (Spring 2013)
particular degenerate characteristics, i.e. killing the prophets of Allah, corrupting His words by putting them in the wrong places…. Only a minority of the Jews keep their word [… A]ll Jews are not the same. The good ones become Muslims, the bad ones do not (Qur’an 3:113).”[1]
- The leader of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini, in his 1970 “Program for the Establishment of an Islamic Government,” asserted: “We see that the Jews (may God curse them) have meddled with the text of the Koran and have made certain changes in the Korans they have printed in the occupied territories. It is our duty to prevent this treacherous interference [… T]he Jews and their foreign backers are opposed to the very foundations of Islam…” [2]
- Many Islamic preachers continue to refer to Jews as “brothers of apes and pigs,” following both the Koran and the example set by Muhammad in addressing the Jews of the Banu Qurayza.[3] For example, at a rally in the West Bank on Jan. 9, 2012, the Mufti of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, was introduced by a Fatah speaker who proclaimed, “Our war with the descendants of apes and pigs [i.e. Jews] is a war of religion and faith.” Far from distancing himself from this introduction, the Mufti went on to recite a hadith recounted by both Bukhari and Muslim in which Muhammad predicts the extermination of the Jews by the Muslims at the end of time.[4] The talk was broadcast by the official Palestinian Authority television station. On Aug. 27, 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood website published an article by an Al-Azhar University lecturer and Muslim Brotherhood member, Hussein Shehata, in which he called upon “those who fast [during Ramadan…] to remember their brothers, those who wage jihad for the sake of Allah: in Palestine, against the Jews, the descendants of apes and
- ↑ Quoted in Andrew Bostom ed., The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism, p. 33.
- ↑ Cited in Robert Wistrich, Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred, p. 219.
- ↑ See Menahem Milson, “Arab and Islamic Anti-Semitism,” Middle East Media Research Institute Antisemitism Documentation Project, Inquiry and Analysis Series Report #442, May 27, 2008, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2680.htm, and “Case Study: Portraying Jews and ‘Apes and Pigs,’” Palestinian Media Watch, http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=786. See also Middle East Media Research Institute Special Report #11, Nov. 1, 2002; also on the same website, Special Dispatch Series #1217 (July 28, 2006) and #1050 (Dec. 16, 2005). See also Neil J. Kressel, “The Sons of Pigs and Apes,” pp. 26-33.
- ↑ “Case Study: Portraying Jews and ‘Apes and Pigs,’” Palestinian Media Watch, http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=786.
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