New bus ads in DC say the Qu’ran promotes Jew-hatred. It’s a meritless, dangerous accusation.
As I detail in my upcoming book, EXTREMIST, an objective study of Islam demonstrates that the myth of Islamic Jew hatred crumbles like a house of cards.
So let’s dig in.
Those who proclaim Islamic Jew-hatred deliberately misrepresent the Qur’an 7:167—among several more verses. My analysis of 7:167 below—which is equally applicable to any allegedly “anti-Jew” verse—demonstrates without question that nothing here is “anti-Jewish.” But to remain objective, I reference Dr. Philip Jenkins—a prolific non-Muslim academic—who, on the question of Islamic Jew-hatred writes in his book Laying Down the Sword:
“In order to make such texts look vicious, anti-Islamic critics systematically exaggerate the Jewish element in the passage… The Qur’an offers nothing vaguely as explicit as the New Testament passages in which Jesus himself, who is for Christians the incarnation of the Divine, speaks so furiously against “the Jews.” It is the Jesus of the New Testament who calls his enemies the children not of Abraham but of the Devil, the Father of Lies. [But Jesus] was not condemning all Jews in any racial sense, but was rather attacking rival factions and leaders in his day. And that is the model we find in the Qur’an. In reality, the Qur’an has nothing that need be taken as a condemnation of Jews, or of any ethnic group.”
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If you search “Jews” in the quranbrowser.com, you find 283 references. 281 are negative. Jews are “schemers”, “unfaithful”, “unbelievers” in Allah or the last Messenger, subject to scourging or hate. Muslims are enjoined not to be their friends.
How, then, can you say there is no anti-semitism in Islam, when it is core to the Quran?
The negative references are only pertaining to the negative actions of certain Jews of the time of Muhammad, may peace be on him.
The Holy Quran does not stereotype them in a negative sense.
Let me collect a few positive references about Jews and everyone in general: