Daniel Pipes Dead Wrong on Islamic Jew-Hatred

Once again, Daniel Pipes is dead-on wrong. That he is considered an expert on these matters makes it all the more troubling. It is essential for a people targeted for genocide to understand the who, what and why behind the savagery. If you cannot (or will not) diagnose a problem, you cannot (and will not) solve it.

Pipes exhibits a willful blindness, or perhaps an extraordinary delusion in his denial of the religious imperative of the Jew-hatred commanded in the Quran.

The infamous Muslim chants for the mass slaughter of Jews, "Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud, Jaish ….."
evoke Islam's 1,400-year war on the Jews. "Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud,
Jaish Muhammad sa ya'ud," means "Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of
Mohammed is returning." This death chant refers to a mass slaughter in
the seventh century, when Muhammad and his soldiers of allah
slaughtered the Jews from the town of Khaybar in Arabia.

There is a blockbuster mini-series set to air to the Muslim world during Ramadan. Watch this video where  actors and the writer describe its incitement against Jews.

The jihad against the Jews is as old as Islam itself. This is the same jihad waged during World War II by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin
al-Husseini (before there was modern-day Israel). 

In one of the Mufti's weekly radio addresses to the Muslim
world (the ummah) from Berlin, where he lived in luxury from 1941 to 1945: (source: The Mufti of Jerusalem chapter 8)

“O Arabs, rise and avenge your
martyrs. Avenge your honour. Fight for your independence. I, Mufti of
Palestine, declare this war as a holy war against the British yoke of
injustice, indecency and tyranny. We fear not death, if in death there
is life
and liberty. 

The blood of these martyrs was shed
for the cause of Islam and for an Arab country. They will remain
immortal in
the heart and history of the Arabs.”

On 19^th March, 1943, Haj
Amin cast his net more widely in the lengthiest broadcast address since
he began  using
the axis microphone. The occasion was the birthday of the Prophet
Mohammed, a
day which could be exploited by anyone built up as a great Moslem
religious
leader to give his exhortations considerable effect:

“May the blessing of God be upon
the Great Prophet Mohammed. His birthday brought into the world
universal well
being and mercy and light and guidance for all peoples. His message
showed the
way to save mankind from the darkness of oppression and slavery. This
day is
being celebrated at a time when the enemy is, directly or indirectly,
dominating all the Moslem countries from the Atlantic to the Far East,
taking
advantage of the good nature of the Moslems, occupying their countries
and
dividing their resources. Moslem patriots are subjected to the tyranny
and
murderous acts of the enemy who offer honeyed words and promises to mask
their
true purpose.

            Moslems
should not deceived again. They should exploit this appropriate occasion
to
save themselves from the claws of their oppressor enemies, the Jews,
British
and Communists, who harbour blatant and evil hatred for the Arabs….”

Then follows this piece of
Jew-baiting:

“The Jews have a dangerous aim by
which they challenge four hundred million Moslems, and that is their
express
wish to occupy the holy Islamic institutions including the El Aqsa
Mosque in
Jerusalem under the pretext that this Mosque is the Temple of Solomon.
This was
openly admitted by a number of political religious and official leaders
and
their recognized institutions.”

Haj Amin goes on:

“Arabs and Moslems, on this
occasion of the birthday of the Prophet, who crushed Jewish ambitions in
the
past and completely eliminated them form Moslem countries, thereby
setting us
an example, on such a day Moslems and Arabs should vow before God
utterly to
crush Jewish ambitions and prove that faith in God is greater than
imperialism and
far more powerful than the devilry which surrounds international
Judaism.”

His references to Britain follow
the usual pattern, but he has this to say to his listeners in America:

“The Arabs and Moslems will not be
deceived by Britain, for not only have they long know its true
intentions but
they have also know those of its Ally- America. I want to draw attention
the
Arab emigrants in America to this fact, reminding them of their glorious
past
when they supported the national movement. I would remind them that
their
efforts will be wasted is, God forbid, America and her allies are
victorious in
this war. For if that happened, the Arabs would never rise again. I
therefore
am confident that those Arab emigrants in America will refrain from
helping
Roosevelt or from taking part in a war which he has brought on his
country.”

On May 20, 2013, Daniel Pipes declined
to accept Rabbi Jon Hausman’s gracious offer to host a debate between Pipes
and and Dr. Andrew Bostom (at the Rabbi’s Temple Ahavath Torah, Stoughton, MA) about the
nature—doctrinal and historical—of Islamic Antisemitism. Bostom had accepted Rabbi Hausman’s proposal. Bostom quips, "Having now examined Pipes’ flimsy, pseudo-academic
charlatanism on the subject matter of the proposed debate, I can fully
understand his
decision."

"Educating Daniel Pipes On Islamic
Antisemitism" Andrew Bostom, July 10th, 2013

It is common knowledge to every
schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
That all sin is divided into two parts.
One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important,
And it is what you are doing when you are doing something you ortant,
And the other kind of sin is just the
opposite and is called a sin of omission

and is equally bad
in the eyes of all right-thinking people, from
Billy Sunday to Buddha,
And it consists of not having done something you shuddha 

—Ogden
Nash

**

Writing in the Toronto
Sun (published 5/16/13)  Farzana Hassan claimed Daniel Pipes’ most recent pronouncement
on the subject, ostensibly, of “Islamic Antisemitism,” was as follows:

He said the religion of Islam itself is not inherently
hostile to Jews, and Muslim Antisemitism scarcely existed before the
establishment of the state of Israel. 

Pipes, however, subsequently claimed
Hassan’s account of his talk to the “Muslim Committee Against Antisemitism,”
was “sympathetic, but inaccurate.”

Daniel Pipes doth protest
Ms. Hassan’s characterization
 far too much.

Never denying that he spoke the actual words Hassan claimed, Pipes
instead provided
this purely casuistic response that avoids the logical implication of his
alleged words—and in fact reinforces Hassan’s interpretation of their meaning!

He said
“the religion of Islam itself is not inherently hostile to Jews,” Not true. A
sense of Muslim superiority over
Jews goes back 1,400 years, to the very origins of Islam. “and Muslim anti-Semitism
scarcely existed before the establishment of the state of Israel.” True
in the technical sense that the tropes of Christian antisemitism, including the
obsessive fear of and hostility toward Jews, goes back only two centuries and
only came fully into its own after 1948.

Fortunately, Pipes’ own albeit quite limited and superficial writings
putatively addressing the subject of “Islamic Antisemitism,” date back just
over 30-years. As can be gleaned, objectively, from this “oeuvre,” Ms. Hassan’s
encapsulation of Pipes’ views is consistent with what he has actually written,
and argued. Indeed, as I will demonstrate, Pipes negates the very existence of
Muslim Antisemitism—Muslim conspiratorial
hatred of Jews, not mere (and benign) feelings of “superiority”—as an
indigenous phenomenon rooted in sacralized Islamic doctrine, and manifested in
Islamic history, across a continuum of almost 12 centuries.  

The most striking, repeated public examples of Pipes’ willful negation
of the doctrinal Islam in Islamic Antisemitism  were evident when the same
very distinct, Jew-hating Koranic motif received broad media attention, on two
occasions, 10-years apart.

During
a televised discussion,
June 24, 2002 with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, Pipes was asked to comment
about excerpts from an interview
of a three-and-a-half year old Muslim girl, Bismallah, originally broadcast on
Saudi Arabian Iqra TV, May 7, 2002. The specific segment Pipes was shown for
his analysis included these statements:

Basmallah:
Allah’s mercy and blessings upon you.

Amer
[adult interviewer]: What’s your name?

Basmallah:
Basmallah.

Amer:
How old are you, Basmallah?

Basmallah:
Three and a half.

Amer:
Are you a Muslim?

Basmallah:
Yes.

Amer:
Basmallah, do you know the Jews?

Basmallah:
Yes

Amer:
Do you like them?

Basmallah:
No.

Amer:
Why don't you like them?

Basmallah:
Because.

Amer:
Because they are what?

Basmallah:
They are apes and pigs.

Amer:
Because they are apes and pigs. Who said that about them?

Basmallah:
Our God.

Amer:
Where did he say that about them?

Basmallah:
In the Koran. [emphasis added]

Ignoring the child’s own Koranic reference, confirmed and elaborated by
the adult Muslim woman interviewer (in an immediately following portion of the interview
not shown that night on Fox News, but widely available),
Pipes opined:

My view
is that Antisemitism of this sort [emphasis
added] is historically a Christian phenomenon
[emphasis added], but, in the course of the past two generations, as a
result of propaganda coming out of the Egyptian government, the Iranian
government, the Iraqi government, the Saudi government of this sort, it has
become pervasive. Now what's so striking about this particular film clip is
that it's a 3 ½-year-old. But you hear the same words coming out of the
preachers in the mosques. You'll hear it from the politicians. You'll hear it
in the schoolbooks, in the schoolrooms. You'll hear it pervasively. It is…

Just over ten years later, in January, 2013, the Middle East Media
Research Institute (MEMRI) reproduced 2010 video interviews of then popularly
elected Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi  during which he openly characterized
“Zionists,” unmistakably Jews in his parlance, as inveterately “hostile in
nature,” “fanning the flames of civil strife wherever they were throughout
history,” and being “the descendants of apes and pigs.” Earlier, between 2004
and 2007 as reported by the Muslim Brotherhood’s own Arabic Ikhwanonline.com
(translated and published
in English on 11/16/12 by The Investigative Project on Terrorism), when serving
as an elected Muslim Brotherhood parliamentarian in the Egyptian People’s
Assembly, and/or a member of its Guidance
Bureau, Morsi had enunciated the same Antisemitic (and jihadist) themes
with more specific Koranic references. Ikhwanonline.com, from November 21,
2004, quoted
Morsi stating:

It is
confirmed by the Quran that Jews are the most hostile of men to Muslims. The
Almighty says: “Certainly you will find the most hostile to those who believe
are the Jews and those who are polytheists.” [Koran
5: 82] The verse confirms that Jews are the most hostile enemies of the
Muslims, as the Almighty says “and prepare for them all you can of power,
including steeds” [Koran
8: 60], [Note: The beginning of the verse is on the Brotherhood logo] a
verse which urges preparation for this enemy with all our energy to prepare us
to confront him at any time; because Zionists are traitors to every covenant
and convention … there is no peace with the descendants of apes and pigs, [Koran
5:60]

Daniel Pipes was interviewed
by the Jewish News Service about Morsi’s statements—redolent with specific
Jew-hating Koranic citations—given the flurry
of publicity the Egyptian President’s hateful commentary had generated.
Pipes offered only this threadbare “explanation,” once again
ignoring the specific Koranic origins of Morsi’s most widely publicized
citation referring to Jews as “descendants of apes and pigs.”

Morsi’s “descendants
of apes and pigs” quote comes as no surprise, but fits into a long record of
his own and of Muslim Brotherhood statements

These two
episodes
illustrate quite unmistakably Pipes’ deliberate negation of a striking
Antisemitic motif from the Koran. Worse still, on the earlier occasion, in
2002, Pipes had the temerity to recast this uniquely Islamic motif as
“historically a Christian phenomenon.”(Of note, in his
2003, “Militant Islam Reaches America,” p. 205, Pipes refers to the
re-statements of this Koranic theme about Jews by American Muslims, i.e., “sons
of monkeys and pigs,” as the “Nazi-like vocabulary of racism.”)

Notwithstanding Pipes’ Islamic negationism, and concomitant, if absurd,
projection of Islamic Jew-hatred on to Christianity (or Nazism), the “apes and
pigs” references to Jews, derive from motifs repeated in specific Koranic
verses, the classical and modern exegeses
of these verses by Islam’s most authoritative Koranic commentators, and their
elaboration in the canonical
traditions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Indeed, as I will also show, the
overarching historical “context” within Islamdom reveals that this canonical
Islamic Jew-hatred
and intimately related jihadism has
been actualized across a nearly 14-century continuum — past as prologue to the
present.

This summary assessment is based upon my own exhaustive
study of primary Islamic doctrinal and historical sources—confirmed
whenever possible by contemporaneous non-Muslim primary source materials—as
well as seminal analyses by the greatest Western specialists who actually took
the time to study the phenomenon of Islamic Jew-hatred, including its textual
basis, and resultant historical manifestations. These important
scholars of Islamic Antisemitism, spanning a century from the late 19^th
through late 20^th centuries — from Hartwig Hirschfeld in the mid
1880s, Georges Vajda in the late 1930s, S.D. Goitein in 1971, and Haggai
Ben-Shammai in 1988 — have demonstrated, collectively, all of the following:

–       Clear historical evidence of specific
Islamic antisemitism, from the Geniza record of the high Middle Ages (10^th
to 13^th centuries)— including the coinage of a unique Hebrew word to
characterize such Muslim Jew-hatred, sinuth — published in full by Goitein as
of 1971

–       The content of foundational Muslim
sources detailing the sacralized rationale for Islam’s anti-Jewish bigotry,
including Hartwig Hirschfeld’s mid-1880s essay series on Muhammad’s subjugation
of the Jews of Medina, based upon the earliest pious Muslim biographies of
Muhammad, and George Vajda’s elegant, comprehensive 1937 analysis focusing
primarily on the hadith (the putative words and deeds of the Muslim prophet
Muhammad, as recorded by pious transmitters)

–       Haggai Ben-Shammai’s concise 1988 study
of key examples of Jew-hatred in the Koran and Koranic exegesis

In stark contrast, Daniel Pipes published output on (allegedly) Islamic
Antisemitism comprises only the thinnest—and dogmatically bowdlerized—gruel.
Using both academic (JSTOR, Google scholar, Index Islamicus) and non-academic
(Google, Bing, Yahoo) search engines, in addition to searches of Pipes’
extensive  personal website archive (www.danielpipes.org),
and even writing to Pipes for any additional works of his these searches did
not uncover [he declined to reply], I could find only two modest essays which broached the subject of
“Islamic” Antisemitism: “The
Politics of Muslim Antisemitism,” Commentary,
August 1981; and “The
New Antisemitism,”  1992, a text submitted to the World Conference on Antisemitism and Prejudice in a
Changing World, Brussels: World Jewish Congress, Jonathan R. Cohen,
ed.

The latter 1992 essay elucidates Pipes’ own views—which persist
unmodified to this day. He accepts the idea, and its “implications,” that
“Muslim” Antisemitism

…is
essentially an import from Europe… that
[Muslim] Antisemitism is relatively superficial. It is a tool, it is an
instrument to be used against Israel
or other Jews. It arose as part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, specifically with
Gamal Abdul Nasser in Egypt
in the 1950s, and it will last only so long as it is useful.

 This “profound” insight, what he terms “the heart of the matter,” leads
Pipes to conclude:

The
phenomenon is more imported than indigenous. And I am somewhat optimistic about
the possibility of change, recognizing that the last generation or two have
been surrounded by anti-Semitic themes and that some of these will stick. For
in contrast with Western anti-Semitism, what one finds in the Muslim world is
impersonal. Few Muslims have contact with Jews, and what is emphasized is the
conspiratorial dimension, the larger, the theoretical, abstract political
dimension rather than personal animus.

That Pipes remains willing to pontificate at all, after his paltry,
intellectually lazy, and transparently agenda-driven writings on what he terms
“Islamic,” or “Muslim” Antisemitism, is a galling act of hubris. The following
succinct overview of painstaking research I have conducted on Islamic Antisemitism
soundly debunks Pipes’ slothfully assembled understandings. Not a shard of even
this brief, summary evidence I adduce (reams more can be found in The
Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism)
is contained in Pipes’ puny output.

The theological basis of recently
deposed Egyptian President Morsi’s conspiratorial, dehumanizing allegations
against the Jews—egregiously ignored by Daniel Pipes—is a central
Antisemitic motif in the Koran
which decrees an eternal curse upon them for purportedly slaying the prophets,
and transgressing against the will of Allah (Koran 2:61,
and 2:90–91,
reiterated at 3:112).
It should be noted that Koran 3:112 is featured before the pre-amble to Hamas’
foundational Covenant.

This central motif is coupled to Koranic verses 5:60,
and 5:78,
which describe the Jews transformation into apes and swine (5:60), or simply
apes, (i.e. verses 2:65
and 7:166),
having been “ … cursed by the tongue of David, and Jesus, Mary’s son” (5:78).
According to the earliest sacralized, pious Muslim biographies
of Muhammad (by Ibn
Ishaq and Ibn
Saad), just before subduing the Medinan Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza and
orchestrating the mass execution of their adult males, Islam’s prophet invoked this striking Koranic motif
for the Jews debasement, addressing these Jews, with hateful disparagement, as
“You brothers of apes.” Muhammad himself also repeats the Koranic
curse upon the Jews in a canonical hadith (Sunan Abu Dawoud, Book
37, Number 4322): “He [Muhammad] then recited the verse [5:78]: ‘ … curses were
pronounced on those among the children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the
tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary’ .”

The related verse, Koran 5:64,
accuses the Jews of being “spreaders of war and corruption” — a sort of ancient
Koranic antecedent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — invoked not only by
Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, but “moderate” Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas, who cited Koran 5:64 during a January 2007 speech which urged Palestinian Muslims to end
their internecine strife, and to “aim their rifles at Israel.”

Indeed, the Koran’s overall
discussion of the Jews is marked by a litany of their sins and punishments,
as if part of a divine indictment, conviction, and punishment process. The
Jews’ ultimate sin and punishment are made clear: they are the devil’s minions
(4:60)
cursed by Allah, their faces will be obliterated (4:47),
and if they do not accept the true faith of Islam — the Jews who understand
their faith become Muslims (3:113)
— they will be made into apes (2:65/ 7:166), or apes and swine (5:60), and burn
in the Hellfires (4:55,
5:29,
98:6,
and 58:14,
15,16,17,18,19).

Classical Koranic commentators
such as Tabari (d. 923), Zamakshari (d. 1143), Baydawi (d. 1316), and Ibn
Kathir (d. 1373), when discussing Koran 5:82,
which includes the statement “Thou wilt surely find the most hostile of men to
the believers are the Jews,” concur on the unique animus of the Jews towards
the Muslims, which is repeatedly linked to the curse of Koran
2:61/2:90-91/3:112.

For example, in his commentary on Koran 5:82, Tabari writes:

In my
opinion, [the Christians] are not like the Jews who always scheme in order to
murder the emissaries and the prophets, and who oppose God in his positive and
negative commandments, and who corrupt His scripture which He revealed in His
books.

Between 2004 and 2010, Muhammad Morsi repeated direct citations of or
references to Koran 5:60,
5:64,
and 5:
82 during interview discussions of the Jews and Israel. Morsi’s
understanding of these verses comports with their classical exegesis in the
seminal Tafsir
al-Jalalayn — meaning “The Commentary of the Two Jalals,” named after its
two Egyptian authors: Al-Suyuti
(1445-1505), a brilliant multidisciplinary scholar; and his mentor Jalalu’d-Din
al-Mahalli
(1389-1459). The great contemporary Dutch Islamologist Johannes J.G. Jansen
notes in his treatise “The
Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt,” Tafsir
al-Jalalayn remains one of the most popular as well as the most
authoritative Koranic commentaries in Egypt.

Here are the glosses on 5:60,
5:64,
and 5:
82 from Tafsir
al-Jalalayn:

[5:60]
… those whom Allah has cursed and put far away from His mercy and with whom he
is angry — turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs by
transmogrification — and who worshipped false gods. These are the Jews … “False
gods” refers to Shayṭān [Satan]. They [the Jews] worship him by obeying him.
Such people are in a worse situation — because they will be in the Fire — and
further from the right way (the Path of the Truth) [i.e., Islam].

[5:64]
When their circumstances became reduced because of their denial of the Prophet,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, after they had previously been the
wealthiest of people, the Jews say “Allah’s hand is chained” — implying that He
is unable to send provision to them and that He is miserly. Allah is far
exalted above that. Allah continues by saying: Their [the Jews’] hands are
chained — and kept them from performing good actions as a supplication against
them — and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are open wide
— and emphatic description of generosity, and the hands are singled out for
mention since what the generous give of their property, they give with their
hands — and He gives however He wills — expanding and constricting and no one
can object. What has been sent down to you from your Lord increases many of them
in insolence and rejection of it. We have cast enmity and hatred between them —
each group opposing the others — until the Day of Rising. Each time they [the
Jews] kindle the fire of war against the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace Allah extinguishes it. Whenever they try to do that, Allah repels
them. They [the Jews] rush about the earth corrupting it through acts of
disobedience. Allah does not love corrupters and will punish them.

[5:82]
You, Muhammad, will find that the most hostile people to those who believe
[i.e., the Muslims] are the Jews and the idolaters … on account of the
intensity of their unbelief and ignorance and their preoccupation with
following their desires.

Morsi’s conjoining of this doctrinal Islamic Jew-hatred to
annihilationist jihadism against the Jews of Israel is also entirely
consistent with mainstream, classical Islamic tenets.

Muhammad’s brutal conquest and subjugation of the Medinan Jews and
their subsequent expulsion by one of his companions, the (second) “Rightly
Guided” Caliph Umar, epitomize
permanent, archetypal behavior patterns Islamic Law deemed appropriate to
Muslim interactions with Jews. George
Vajda’s analysis of the anti-Jewish motifs in the hadith remains the
definitive work on this subject. Vajda concluded
that according to the hadith, stubborn malevolence is the Jews defining worldly
characteristic: rejecting Muhammad and refusing to convert to Islam out of
jealousy, envy and even selfish personal interest lead them to acts of
treachery, in keeping with their inveterate nature: “ … sorcery, poisoning,
assassination held no scruples for them.”

These archetypes sanction
Muslim hatred towards the Jews, and the admonition to, at best, “subject [the
Jews] to Muslim domination,” as dhimmis (as per Koran 9:29),
treated “with contempt,” under certain “humiliating arrangements.”

The Koranic curse (verses 2:61/3:112) upon the Jews for (primarily)
rejecting, even slaying Allah’s prophets, including Isa/Jesus (or at least his
“body double” 4:157-4:158), is updated with perfect archetypal logic in the
canonical hadith:
following the Muslims’ initial conquest of the Jewish farming oasis of Khaybar,
one of the vanquished Jewesses reportedly served Muhammad poisoned mutton (or
goat), which resulted, ultimately, in his protracted, agonizing death. And Ibn
Saad’s sira
account (i.e., one of the important early pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad)
maintains that Muhammad’s poisoning resulted from a well-coordinated Jewish
conspiracy.

The contemporary Iranian theocracy’s state-sanctioned Jew hatred employs
this motif as part of its malevolent indoctrination of young adult candidates
for national teacher training programs. Affirming as objective, factual history
the hadith account (for eg., Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 47, Number
786) of Muhammad’s supposed poisoning by a Jewish woman from ancient
Khaybar, Professor Eliz Sanasarian notes,

… the
subject became one of the questions in the ideological test for the Teachers’
Training College where students were given a multiple-choice question in order
to identify the instigator of the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad, the
“correct” answer being “a Jewess. ”

It is worth recounting — as depicted in the Muslim sources — the events
that antedated Muhammad’s reputed poisoning at Khaybar.

Muhammad’s failures or incomplete successes were consistently recompensed
by murderous attacks on the Jews. The Muslim prophet-warrior developed a penchant
for assassinating individual Jews, and destroying Jewish communities — by
expropriation and expulsion (Banu Quaynuqa and B. Nadir), or massacring their
men, and enslaving their women and children (Banu Qurayza). Subsequently, in
the case of the Khaybar Jews, Muhammad
had the male leadership killed, and plundered their riches. The terrorized
Khaybar survivors — industrious Jewish farmers — became
prototype subjugated dhimmis whose productivity was extracted by the Muslims as
a form of permanent booty. (And according to the Muslim sources, even this
tenuous vassalage was arbitrarily terminated
within a decade of Muhammad’s death when Caliph Umar expelled the Jews of
Khaybar.)

Thus Maimonides (d. 1203), the renowned Talmudist, philosopher,
astronomer, and physician, as noted by historian Salo Baron, emphasizes
the bellicose “madness” of Muhammad — Maimonides refers to Muhammad as
“Meshugga” — and his quest for political control. Muhammad’s mindset, and the
actions it engendered, had immediate, and long term tragic consequences for
Jews — from his massacring up to 24,000 Jews, to their chronic oppression — as
described in the Islamic sources, by Muslims themselves.

As also characterized in the hadith, and analyzed by Vajda,
Muslim eschatology (end of times theology) highlights the Jews’ supreme
hostility to Islam. Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjâl — the Muslim
equivalent of the Anti-Christ — or according to another tradition, the Dajjâl
is himself Jewish.

At his appearance, other traditions maintain
that the Dajjâl will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan wrapped in their robes and armed with
polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjâl is
defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered — everything will deliver
them up except for the so-called gharkad tree, as per the canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim,
Book 41, Number 6985) included in the 1988 Hamas
Covenant (in article 7).

Promoters of modern jihad genocide have repeatedly invoked Islam’s
Jew-exterminating eschatology. Hajj Amin el-Husseini,
ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Muslim jihadist who became, additionally, a full-fledged
Nazi collaborator and ideologue in his endeavors to abort a Jewish homeland and
destroy world Jewry, composed a 1943 recruitment pamphlet
for Balkan Muslims entitled, “Islam and the Jews.” This incendiary document was
rife with the anti-Semitic Koranic verses cited herein, as well as Jew-hating
motifs from the hadith, and concluded with the apocalyptic canonical hadith
describing the Jews’ annihilation.

Forty-five years later, the same hadith was incorporated into the 1988 Hamas
Covenant, making clear its own aspirations for Jew annihilation.

At present, according to polling data published
in July, 2011, 73% of Palestinian Muslims surveyed agree with the
annihilationist dictates of this
canonical hadith.

Lastly, a profound anti-Jewish motif occurring after the events
recorded in the hadith and sira, put forth in early Muslim historiography
(for example, by Tabari), is most assuredly a conspiratorial Jew-hating theme
associated with “the birth pangs” of Islam: the story of Abd Allah b. Saba, an
alleged renegade Yemenite Jew, and founder of the heterodox Shi’ite sect. He is
held
responsible — identified as a Jew — for promoting the Shi’ite heresy and
fomenting the rebellion and internal strife associated with this primary breach
in Islam’s “political innocence”, culminating in the assassination of the third
Rightly Guided Caliph Uthman, and the bitter, lasting legacy of Sunni-Shi’ite
sectarian strife.

Two particularly humiliating “vocations” that were imposed
upon Jews by their Muslim overlords in Yemen,
and Morocco
— where Jews formed the only substantive non-Muslim dhimmi populations — merit
elaboration.

Moroccan Jews were confined
to ghettos in the major cities, such as Fez
(since the 13th century) called mellah(s) (salty earth) which derives from the
fact it was here that they were forced to salt the decapitated heads of
executed rebels for public exposition. This brutally imposed humiliating
practice — which could be enforced even on the Jewish Sabbath — persisted
through the late 19th century, as described
by Eliezer Bashan:

In the
1870’s, Jews were forced to salt the decapitated heads of rebels on the
Sabbath. For example, Berber tribes frequently revolted against Sultan Muhammad
XVIII. In order to force them to accept his authority, he would engage in
punitive military campaigns. Among the tribes were the Musa, located south of Marrakesh.  In 1872,
the Sultan succeeded in quelling their revolt and forty-eight of their captives
were condemned to death. In October 1872, on the order of the Sultan, they were
dispatched to Rabat
for beheading. Their decapitated heads were to be exposed on the gates of the
town for three days. Since the heads were to be sent to Fez, Jewish ritual slaughterers [of
livestock] were forced to salt them and hang them for exposure on the Sabbath.
Despite threats by the governor of Rabat,
the Jews refused to do so.  He then ordered soldiers to enter the homes of
those who refused and drag them outside. After they were flogged, the Jews
complied and performed the task and the heads of the rebels were exposed in
public.

Yemenite Jews had to remove
human feces and other waste matter (urine which failed to evaporate, etc.) from
Muslim areas, initially in Sanaa, and later in other communities such as
Shibam, Yarim, and Dhamar. Decrees requiring
this obligation were issued in the late 18th or early 19th century, and
re-introduced in 1913. Yehuda Nini reproduces an 1874 letter written by a
Yemenite Jew to the Alliance Israelite in Paris,
lamenting
the practice:

…it is
86 years since our forefathers suffered the cruel decree and great shame to the
nation of Israel from the east to sundown…for in the days of our fathers, 86
years ago, there arose a judge known as Qadi, and said unto the king and his
ministers who lived in that time that the Lord, Blessed be He, had only created
the Jews out of love of the other nations, to do their work and be enslaved by
them at their will, and to do the most contemptible and lowly of tasks. And of
them all…the greatest contamination of all, to clear their privies and streets
and pathways of the filthy dung and the great filth in that place and to
collect all that is left of the dung, may your Honor pardon the expression.

And when the Jews were perceived
as having exceeded the rightful bounds of this subjected relationship, as in
mythically “tolerant” Muslim Spain, the results were predictably tragic. The
Granadan Jewish viziers Samuel Ibn Naghrela, and his son Joseph, who protected
the Jewish community, were both assassinated
between 1056 to 1066, and in the aftermath, the Jewish population was
annihilated by the local Muslims. It is estimated
that up to four thousand Jews perished in the pogrom by Muslims that
accompanied the 1066 assassination. This figure equals
or exceeds the number of Jews reportedly killed by the Crusaders during
their pillage of the Rhineland, some thirty
years later, at the outset of the First Crusade. The inciting “rationale” for
this Granadan pogrom is made clear in the bitter anti-Jewish ode of Abu Ishaq,
a well-known Muslim jurist and poet of the times, who wrote:

Bring
them down to their place and return them to the most abject station. They used
to roam around us in tatters covered with contempt, humiliation, and scorn.
They used to rummage amongst the dung heaps for a bit of a filthy rag to serve
as a shroud for a man to be buried in…Do not consider that  killing them
is treachery. Nay, it would be treachery to leave them scoffing.

Abu Ishaq’s rhetorical incitement to violence also included
the line,

Many a pious Muslim is in awe of the vilest infidel ape

Moshe Perlmann, in his analysis
of the Muslim anti-Jewish polemic of 11th century Granada, notes,

[Abu Ishaq] Elbiri used the epithet “ape” (qird) profusely
when referring to Jews. Such indeed was the parlance.

The Moroccan cleric al-Maghili (d. 1505), referring
to the Jews as “brothers of apes” (just as Muhammad, the sacralized prototype,
had addressed the Banu Qurayza), who repeatedly blasphemed the Muslim prophet,
and whose overall conduct reflected their hatred of Muslims, fomented, and then
personally
lead, a Muslim pogrom (in ~ 1490) against the Jews of the southern Moroccan
oasis of Touat, plundering and killing them en masse, and destroying their
synagogue in neighboring Tamantit. An important Muslim theologian whose
writings influenced Moroccan religious attitudes towards Jews into the 20th
century, al-Maghili also declared
in verse, “Love of the Prophet, requires hatred of the Jews.”

Mordechai Hakohen (1856-1929) was a Libyan Talmudic scholar and
auto-didact anthropologist who composed
an ethnographic study of North African Jewry in the early 20th century. Hakohen
describes
the overall impact on the Jews of the Muslim jihad conquest and rule of North Africa, as follows:

They
[also] pressed the Jews to enter the covenant of the Muslim religion. Many Jews
bravely chose death. Some of them accepted under the threat of force, but only
outwardly…Others left the region, abandoning their wealth and property and
scattering to the ends of the earth. Many stood by their faith, but bore an
iron yoke on their necks. They lowered themselves to the dust before the
Muslims, lords of the land, and accepted a life of woe — carrying no weapons,
never mounting an animal in the presence of a Muslim, not wearing a red
headdress, and following other laws that signaled their degradation.

Here is but an incomplete
sampling of pogroms and mass murderous violence against Jews living under
Islamic rule, across space and time, all resulting from the combined effects of
jihadism, general anti-dhimmi, and/or specifically Antisemitic motifs in Islam:
6,000 Jews massacred in Fez in 1033; hundreds of Jews slaughtered in Muslim
Cordoba between 1010 and 1015; 4,000 Jews killed in Muslim riots in Grenada in
1066, wiping out the entire community; the Berber Muslim Almohad depredations
of Jews (and Christians) in Spain and North Africa between 1130 and 1232, which
killed tens of thousands, while forcibly converting thousands more, and
subjecting the forced Jewish converts to Islam to a Muslim Inquisition; the
murderous persecutions of the Jews of Egypt by al-Hakim during the early 11th
century, one of which was timed for Passover in 1012; Jews in Alexandria and
Cairo being pogromed and plundered in 1047, 1168, 1265, and 1324; and Sultan
Baybars in the 13th century blaming Jews for starting a plague, and subjecting
them to extortion, massacre, and expulsion; the 1291 pogroms in Baghdad and its
environs, which killed (at least) hundreds of Jews; the 1465 pogrom against the
Jews of Fez; the late 15th century pogrom against the Jews of the Southern Moroccan
oasis town of Touat; the 1679 pogroms against, and then expulsion of 
10,000 Jews from Sanaa, Yemen to the unlivable, hot and dry Plain of Tihama,
from which only 1,000 returned alive, in 1680, 90% having died from
exposure;  recurring Muslim anti-Jewish violence — including pogroms and
forced conversions — throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which
rendered areas of Iran (for example, Tabriz) Judenrein; the 1834 pogrom in
Safed where raging Muslim mobs killed and grievously wounded hundreds of Jews;
the 1888 massacres of Jews in Isfahan and Shiraz, Iran; the 1910 pogrom in
Shiraz; the pillage and destruction of the Casablanca, Morocco ghetto in 1907;
the pillage of the ghetto of Fez  Morocco in 1912; the government
sanctioned anti-Jewish pogroms by Muslims in Turkish Eastern Thrace during
June-July, 1934 which ethnically cleansed at least 3000 Jews; and the series of
pogroms, expropriations, and finally mass expulsions of some 900,000 Jews from
Arab Muslim nations, beginning in 1941 in Baghdad (the murderous “Farhud,”
during which 600 Jews were murdered, and at least 12,000 pillaged) — eventually
involving cities and towns in Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Syria, Aden, Bahrain, and
culminating in 1967 in Tunisia — that accompanied the planning and creation of
a Jewish state, Israel, on a portion of the Jews’ ancestral homeland.

On May 20, 2013, Daniel Pipes declined
to accept Rabbi Jon Hausman’s gracious offer to host a debate between Pipes
and myself (at the Rabbi’s Temple Ahavath Torah, Stoughton, MA) about the
nature—doctrinal and historical—of Islamic Antisemitism. Previously, I had accepted
Rabbi Hausman’s proposal. Having now examined Pipes’ flimsy, pseudo-academic
charlatanism on the subject matter of the proposed debate, I can fully
understand his
decision.

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A few thoughts

10 years ago

The signs of the times are extremely bad. We have entered a period of world wide pogroms against Jews and the world doesn’t object much or, at least, insufficiently so to make it cease. It almost makes one not wish to live in this world, particularly when all the lessons of the Holocaust have been vividly recorded and taught in thousands of schools worldwide and very little is being done to avoid a second Holocaust in the span of less than a few decades. And yet one continues on not because of hope for humanity but because to not fight against hatred against Jews for simply being Jews makes one as guilty of genocide as those who actively participate in the destruction of Jews. One must fight against hatred of Jews if one wishes to retain sanity, morality, and one’s own conscience.
Alas, the Islamic world seems to have found that following the promises of their ‘prophet’ greater than discovering their own individual consciences which, in essence, should rise above the narrow dictates of a given world view. In other words, conscience is supra religion for religion with all it’s connection to tradition, ritual, and law, is nothing without it leading to conscious conscience.

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Mac-101

10 years ago

Daniel Pipes is Jewish, isn’t he? What is it with ALL the Jewicidal Jews. DO they sell out their own people for 30 shekels or are they so sold into Satan’s progressive leftist agenda that they are willin to follow Mahatma Gandhi’s advice to walk cheerfully into the ovens?
The most ridiculous thing is that Fundamental Christians are the biggest supports of Israel in the US, even more than the Jewish community, but are hated more than Muslims. LOL!
American Energy Independence NOW! CNG NOW!

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Larry S.

10 years ago

I find Pamela’s ongoing vilification of Daniel Pipes to be distressing, and I do not think she has offered a rebuttal worthy of a scholar like Pipes. It seems to me she goes out of her way to pick a fight with Pipes, and I can understand his reluctance to deal with her arguments.
He said the religion of Islam itself is not inherently hostile to Jews, and Muslim Antisemitism scarcely existed before the establishment of the state of Israel. Pipes, however, subsequently claimed Hassan’s account of his talk to the “Muslim Committee Against Antisemitism,” was “sympathetic, but inaccurate.” Daniel Pipes doth protest Ms. Hassan’s characterization far too much.
Well Pamela of all people should allow Pipes to speak for himself, and not rely on someone else’s paraphrasing of his comments. Allow me to cite this link, which also contains a third party report about Pipes’ sentiments: http://palestineisraelconflict.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/on-islamic-anti-semitism/
In flat contradiction to Ms. Hassan’s claims, the writer notes Pipes agrees with the following sentiment of Bernard Lewis,
Based on this definition [of anti-Semitism], he comments:
anti-Semitism did not exist in the traditional Islamic world. True, Muslim religious and other literature provide ample evidence of prejudice against Jews, and Muslim history records not a few cases of persecution. But – and this is surely the crucial point – these attitudes and these persecutions were not accompanied by the demonological beliefs and conspiratorial fantasies that are characteristic of Christian anti-Semitism in both medieval and modern Europe, and do not differ significantly from the hostility and persecution to which other religious minorities, besides the Jews, have been from time to time subject.
In short, I do not really have an opinion about whether or not anti-Semitism is a notable theme throughout Islamic history. I would like my own thoughts on the matter to be informed by Pipes, Lewis, and Martin Gilbert, and I would wonder in what ways those gentlemen would agree and disagree in this regard. I do not think that Pamela is giving this matter the scholarly attention it deserves, nor is she giving Pipes his just due in this dispute. I would say it takes some chutzpah for a polemicist and activist like Pamela to dispute the shared wisdom of Pipes and Lewis, and she should tread carefully when doing so. Issuing broadsides against Pipes- about a matter in which he and Lewis are in agreement- calls her own credibility into question.

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Larry S.

10 years ago

Yes, Pipes is Jewish. To characterize him as “Jewicidal” is absurd.

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Defcon 4

10 years ago

Another ivory tower bullshitter, hiding behind his supercilious vocabulary to obfuscate the ugly truth about pisslam. FOAD lying scum. There’s nothing scholarly about islamonazi pogroms, genocide and ethnic cleansing. BTW, shitheel, what happened to the formerly prosperous and large Jewish communities of Egypt, Iraq (Baghdad once had a majority Jewish populous), Iran, Syria and N. Africa? Have they all been on extended vacations since the mid-20th century?

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Defcon 4

10 years ago

What’s really absurd is your disgusting denial of Islamic Jew hatred shithell.

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Mac-101

10 years ago

I would think a learned person knowledgeable of Islam of Jewish background, to downplay the hatred of Infidels/Kaffirs and Jews especially, since they still believe that Jewess poisoned Mohammad contributin to his death, is Jewicidal!
Just the one quote form Muslim, I believe, Which states “At the end times the trees and rocks will cry out O noble Muslim warrior, there’s a Jew hidin behind me, KILL him ” would be enough to realize Jews will never be able to live with Muslims in Peace, unless they are in complete servitude.
The great Islamic Age was based on Jewish scholars and Christian craftsmen dhiminies.

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elvis

10 years ago

Pipes was a GW’s token Islam adviser for a couple of years. He believed the majority (85%–90%) of the weak minded and savage orthodoxy were not a threat by commission, yet preposterously inferred, that just because the violent minority was small percentage-wise, it was manageable. A mere 275,000–300,000 impulsively violent savages. But now Obot, narcissist-usurper-in-chief stripped all pretense away when he hijacked America to become one with the religion of perpetual, adolescent angst. And the weight of the collective howls from their useful idiot, crybaby enablers in government, the enemedia, and education are committing and omitting. They think their collective ego-maniacal tyranny is majestic.

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zaba

10 years ago

You actually wrote:
I do not really have an opinion about whether or not anti-Semitism is a notable theme throughout Islamic history.
Larry, baby!
Sorry to be the first to inform you that this one is a ‘no brainer’.
You can get all the facts needed to form an opinion in quite short order.
Go to jihadwatch.org and study islam 101.
30 minutes will do for a quick and ‘scholarly’ peruse.
The rest of us are quite familiar w/islam’s 1400 years of violence, and counting.
And for a recap on recent violence, visit thereligionofpeace.com
A troll is a troll.

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Larry S.

10 years ago

Defcon-
hiding behind his supercilious vocabulary to obfuscate the ugly truth about pisslam.
Your absurd mis-representation of the word ‘Islam’ shows you have no interest in serious discussion or serious thought. Such conduct only serves a certain chest-thumping satisfaction in limited minds like yours; it also lends credence to the notion that shruggers are idiots. That, unfortunately, serves to drive away the future Noni Darwish or Ibn Warraq who might be interested in a different way of looking at their ancestral faith.
I can see you would need to increase your vocabulary to read the works of Bernard Lewis or Daniel Pipes, so undoubtedly their insights are beyond your ken. Tell me, Defcon, do you come from a long line of idiots, or did you just come out mentally shortchanged?
Truly your ignorance is impressive.

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Larry S.

10 years ago

Recent violence has no bearing on the question of whether Islam is, historically and by virtue of its own holy scripture, anti-Semetic. If you think it does, you are a dolt.
I notice you couldn’t bestir yourself to deal with what I see as the crux of Lewis’ argument that the link I cited quoted from his writings and which, given your short attention span, I will repeat:
But – and this is surely the crucial point – these attitudes and these persecutions were not accompanied by the demonological beliefs and conspiratorial fantasies that are characteristic of Christian anti-Semitism in both medieval and modern Europe, and do not differ significantly from the hostility and persecution to which other religious minorities, besides the Jews, have been from time to time subject.
Well it’s best you don’t deal with that argument, because in any intellectual discussion with Daniel Pipes and Bernard Lewis, you would be out of your league, baby.
I do not know, as a matter of history, whether or not Lewis (and by inference, Pipes) is correct on this score. I suspect they have well-considered arguments that have not been done justice on this forum.
An idiot is an idiot.

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zaba

10 years ago

After extensive and international salutations and consultations, we have concluded you are on the wrong site.
You appear to be far more educated and smug than we are.
Please go to stormfront.
Thank you.

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Not an eloi

10 years ago

Daniel pipes has been a formidable fighter against jihadists in the past. He was shouted down and terrorized at many of our institutions of higher brain washing. Even Ayaan Hirsi Ali is temperate in her remarks despite her extreme suffering at the hands of these
Savages. Does it not occur to you that these people are scared and done. Jihad is flourishing. The Moslem brotherhood is part of the Obama administration. They march in the streets under the al Qaida flag proudly and unafraid. The media hides the ugly truth and maligns those who
Deseminate information. Look at England, a soldier is butchered in the street and they want to sweep under the rug, along with spencer and Geller. We are in trouble here and I am trying to get people to care before its too late.

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Jimmie Boswell

10 years ago

everyone is wrong! it all has to do with being true, or not true to G-D here in TheTorah again. the whole world is getting hell, for not being true to G-D still here in TheTorah for the third visitation. it is not a matter of being anti-jew, anti-christian, anti-muslim, or other anti-pagan. the whole world is getting hell, for being AntiG-D here in TheTorah thrice again.
and this is the way you all pay G-D back, for giving all of you and your grandmother of all on earth sarah a third chance to make the necessary corrections here in TheTorah? with the whole world worshiping all kinds of other g-ds imaginable, except for TheG-D WHO only gives TheTorah Happening actually here in IT.
TheTorah is now the history of this world refusing to believe in G-D. it is prophecy, for the world for or against GanEden here on earth. and we only have about sixty years left before G-D takes off for the day of rest again. and again places adam and his appointed mate, in charge for the final day prior to Noach again. because this whole world is blowing off, being here in TheTorah thrice again from HaShem G-D. you now have a lot worse problems against G-D here in TheTorah now, than these vain petty irrelevant symptomatic issues. that are all the result of not being true to G-D here in TheTorah thrice again.

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Jimmie Boswell

10 years ago

you so totally miss, the point of G-D here. if the alleged as jews, were actually true to G-D here in TheTorah. then G-D would not allow, the forces of hasatan, baal hamolech, or halooseefer to even touch you. all this world does in their not being true to G-D, here in TheTorah is to continue in their lack of peace. HaShem G-D is not about to give this world with any peace, for rejecting HIM here in TheTorah again.
jews are getting hell, just as much as the rest of this world for all rejecting G-D here in TheTorah. all pestilence, plague and famine are commanded to happen by HaShem G-D. no matter what scientific, horse man ur excuses you use to try and avoid it. G-D is extremely angry at this whole world, and all your new testament new world histories excluding HIM and TheTorah.

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