printIn a WorldNetDaily.com review of our friend Andrew Bostom’s new book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, Alyssa A. Lappen
writes:
“Particularly since the late, lifelong Muslim Brother, Yasser Arafat, shifted anti-Israel jihad into fifth gear in September 2000, several Middle East and Islamic scholars have repeatedly asserted that 20th and 21st century Islamic anti-Semitism sprang solely from Nazi and European Christian influence.”
“Even now, Islamophiles like Bernard Lewis preach (as it were) that virulent Jew-hatred is not inherent to Islam – but rather, anti-Semitism migrated to the Middle East with European colonialism. The Quran uses ‘hard words … about the Jews,’ even Lewis admits. Yet under Islamic rule, he claims they were ‘only rarely subject to persecution’ and ‘their situation was never as bad as in Christendom at its worst. …'”
“Dr. Andrew G. Bostom’s extensive, scientific and largely unprecedented new book, ‘The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History’, definitively disproves such claims. (Full disclosure: I copy-edited several of these first-time English translations, and proofread many chapters.)”
“Publication of this landmark book informs self-respecting scholars, they can no longer shamelessly blame Christianity as the sole source of anti-Semitism – or more importantly, that Islam does not and never had its own innate brand of loathing for the Jewish people. Islam detests non-Muslims generally – whom sharia laws institutionally oppress and tax as underclass ‘dhimmis’ – but inveighs especially intense odium against Jews…”
ILANA here: almost intractably ingrained among Jews themselves is the perception of Christianity as a source of all things bad for them. Not a week goes by when I am not laboriously explaining to relatives that, no, Hagee is not about to ride into Pittsburgh to conduct a pogrom. Jews, especially those residing in Eurabia, had better begin to better tell their friends from their foes. I imagine it must piss off a friend immensely when nothing he does satisfied the Stiff-Necked Ones.
I am rereading Esther. I am reminded of the saying: “When God chose the Jews, so did the devil.”
Ilana, you are correct. Southern evangelicals have a deep respect for Jews if for no other reason then fear of God based on belief in the Bible.
But I will also say this: Paranoia about Southern Christians plus opposition to traditional Christian values (which are often traditional Jewish values) is not helpful.
The Hagees and Pat Robertsons and conservative Christians (Protestants and Catholics) are generally friendly to Judaism and Israel but hostile to abortion, homosexuality, gun control, and other values of the Jewish left – hence, they are viewed as the enemy. There is probably less concern among the Jewish right about the evangelical Christian “friends of Israel” other than in conversion (e.g. Jews for Jesus) than in the right wing cultural agenda.
Well, I can state that I am in agreement with Islam and Darwin that I am the descendent of apes.
However, I will claim that the self-proclaimed “friends of Israel” who make it dependent on American foreign aid and the neo-con blundering foreign policies of Bush-McCain-Lieberman are not, per se, doing a favor EITHER to Israel or the USA.
Actually, the only Christians that are truly “friends of Israel” adhere to the doctrine of dispensationalism. Catholics, Calvinists and “reformed” Protestants / Baptists are supersessionists. Supersessionists believe that the “New Covenant” replaced the “Old Covenant” between YHWH and Israel. In other words, they believe Israelis (all tribes, not just Judah and Benjamin) lost their inheritance to the gentiles.
To my knowledge, Jewish people have never been persecuted by dispensationalists, only by supersessionists (Adolph Hitler was a Roman Catholic). As I understand it, most Jewish people today are humanists and fatalists. If true, the Jewish people today are like abused children, they identify more with their persecutors, both Godless (Marxists / collectivists)on the Left and religious (supersessionists / Islamists) on the Right, than with those who would treat them with respect, even adoration, as God’s chosen people.
rlk
The Jewish representation within movements of feminism, Marxist, anti-capitalism, anarchism, militant secularism, socialism, awful media, academic abstraction-worship, etc. is a troubling thing. But on the other hand, names like Ludwig von Mises, Israel Kirzner (an Orthodox Rabbi to boot), and Paul Gottfried, as well as the owner of this very blog, are strong examples of exceptions. It seems that most Jews in the West will embrace every ideology before they give any serious thought to adhering to traditional Judaism, which appears to be one of life’s greater mysteries.
But where does Robert Kelley get that Adolf Hitler was a Roman Catholic? Hitler’s relationship with the Roman Catholic Church was a part of the political tactics of his regime. He also cooperated with Stalin to a degree; does that make him a Marxist?
Andrew T. – Hitler a Catholic? Google it and draw your own conclusions. My personal opinion is that Hitler was an occultist that used the Vatican for his sinister purposes; but he was raised as a Catholic according to all I have read. There is also the now infamous Concordant of 1933 with Cardinal Pacelli / Pope Pius XII.