The Everlasting Hatred (22 page)

El-Nur
, a weekly publication of the Muslim Brotherhood, circulation over 100,000, said October 22, 1986: “We wait for the moment that all Jews will gather in Palestine and that will be the great day for enormous massacre.”

Sawt Filastin
, a semi-official weekly published for Palestinians, published in August 1987, the fifth anniversary of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre: “Deception and
treason are basic components of Jewish character. Jews always used tricks and plots to spread terror and death all over the world.”

El-Tawhid
, a fundamentalist Islamic monthly, stated in February 1987: “The children of Israel are ‘garbage allied with Satan, purulence causing pain and infection, a deposit of germs.'”

Many more examples like these could be quoted here, but these illustrate the irrational hatred that is constantly spread against the Jew in the Muslim world. If anything, anti-Semitism has gotten far worse in the twenty-first century.

That this hatred is spreading around the world is illustrated by the 9/11 attack on the United States is evidence this hatred is spreading around the world. Islamic fundamentalists see the United States as the world center of the Judeo-Christian-based world order, which they believe is the greatest threat to true Islam. They believe we must be destroyed and replaced with an Islamic-based world order.

Just as the Jews were driven out of Muslim lands, Christians are now targeted for persecution. Here are just a few examples of anti-Christian persecution occurring throughout the Islamic world.

Indonesia, which has the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, is systematically killing and terrorizing Christians. More than five hundred churches have been burned and hundreds of Christians killed. People have fled certain areas in fear for their lives.

Muslims of the Sudan have systematically slaughtered Christians in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Thousands have been killed, and millions have been driven into exile, resulting in tens of thousands dying of famine.

In Egypt, Muslim fundamentalists have forced Christians to stay inside their mud hovels for months at a time due to the intensity of persecution. Churches have been burned, Christian shops looted and destroyed, and Christians have been killed. One Coptic Christian said, “Life for Christians is over. Now we must figure out how to get out alive.” Coptic Christians, who number seven to eight million of Egypt's fifty-six million people, belong to one of the oldest denominations in Christendom.
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Because “Christian U.S. soldiers” have stayed in Saudi Arabia to defend it against Iraqi invasion, Osama Bin Laden has declared this protection as the ultimate sacrilege. To him and his al Qaeda, our mere presence on Saudi soil constitutes an invasion of sacred Islamic land and desecrates the most holy places of Islam.

This is clearly expressed in Bin Laden's “Fatwa,” which declared a Jihad against all Americans. The terror leader writes, “For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.” For this and equally “serious crimes,” Osama concludes, “We—with God's help—call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to
kill the Americans
and plunder their money whenever and wherever they find it. We call on Muslim ulema [believers], leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.”
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You, like most westerners, must be asking, “Where does this kind of hate come from?” We have seen how the hate started in the tents of Abraham and grew in the deserts of Arabia. But the constantly flowing spring that feeds and nourishes this hate is the Koran itself. The Muslim holy book pulls no punches in its denunciations of both Jews and Christians. I will close with just a few examples out of many that could be cited. Later we will examine this issue in more detail. The following verses were taken from an English translation of the Koran on an Islamic Web site:

“Certainly you will find the most violent of people in enmity for those who believe to be the Jews and those who are polytheists [Christians].” —Surah 5.82

“So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.”

—Surah 9.5

“O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” —Surah 5.51

“Abasement is made to cleave to them [Jews] wherever they are found, … and they have become deserving of wrath from Allah, and humiliation is made to cleave to them; this is because they disbelieved in the communications of Allah and slew the prophets unjustly; this is because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.” —Surah 3.112

“And you will most certainly find them [Jews] the greediest of men.” —Surah 2.96

“And when there came to them [Jews] a Book from Allah (Koran) verifying that which they have … they disbelieved in him; so Allah's curse is on the unbelievers. Evil is that for which they [Jews] have sold their souls—that they should deny what Allah has revealed, out of envy that Allah should send down of His grace on whomsoever of His servants He pleases; so they have made themselves deserving of wrath upon wrath.”

—Surah 2.89–90

“Those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall make them enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other skins, that they may taste the chastisement; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.” —Surah 4.56

“Of those who are Jews [they are those who] alter words from their places and say: We have heard and we disobey … but Allah has cursed them on account of their unbelief.” —Surah 4:46

“Shall I inform you of him who is worse than this in the retribution from Allah? Worse is he [Jews] whom Allah has cursed and brought His wrath upon, and of whom He made apes and pigs, and he who served the Satan; these are worse in place and more erring from the straight path.” —Surah 5.60

With this kind of institutionalized anti-Semitism justified by their sacred religious book, their religious traditions, and the example of Mohammad himself, is it any wonder that nearly all the Jews living under Muslim rule gladly fled and left their possessions behind in 1948?

And is it any wonder that today's leaders of Israel are not anxious to rush into granting statehood to the Palestinians? The
current Palestinian demands would make the borders of Israel indefensible. Israeli concerns are especially understandable since the Palestinians cannot stop their vicious terrorist attacks for even a week. Israel is being asked to give irreplaceable land and defensive positions for nothing more than the Muslim's promises of peace. And given what we know about the “Quraysh model” and Mohammad's declaration that “war is deception,” that is a suicidal choice.

Maybe Israel's leaders have concluded that Muslims today really believe the Prophet Mohammad's words that, “war is deception.” Who in their right mind would want to gamble the survival of their nation on that kind of “peace partner”?

“Over the last 40 years, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have undergone radical transformations which, among other things, have brought about the near extinction of Jewish communities after 2,000 to 3,000 years of existence.”

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“The Jews always did live previously in Arab countries with complete freedom and liberty, as natives of the country. In fact, Muslim rule has always been tolerant . . . according to history Jews had a most quiet and peaceful residence under Arab rule.”