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Karsh: 'The War Against the Jews'

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TrueLiberal8/21/2012 7:30:16 pm PDT

Sliv-the_Eli and Curious Lurker,

You both have incorrect notions regarding why a religion persecutes another. Judaism is demonized by Christianity (the fable of Judas, the fable of Pontius Pilate washing his hands and the crowd preferring Lazarus, the fable of Pharasaic Judaism being illiberal and unloving) and Islam (be not friends to the Jew or the Christian, oh Believer come and kill him, the final battle will be with the Jews, the fable of the Jewish tribe breaking the peace treaty with Mohammed).

Christianity (most denominations) and Islam believe the Jews cannot enter heaven. Judaism believes that anyone who keeps the seven Noachide laws enters heaven and that Christianity and Islam worship the same God as the Jews.

Why the asymmetry? It is because Christianity needed to explain why it was needed when Judaism offered a path to heaven by keeping seven basic moral laws. Islam needed to explain the same thing. The ONLY thing Christianity and Islam were able to come up with to explain why they were necessary was to assert that the Jews had it totally wrong. The more they could demonize the Jew, the more they could make it a presumption that Judaism was wrong, rather than to have a fair debate.

Christianity requires faith over acts, contrary to Judaism.
Islam requires placing Mohammed first among all prophets, regardless of whether he added any new moral understanding or code of conduct that was previously not taught.
This is how Christianity and Islam tried to solve the justification of existence problem.

Islam treated Jews abysmally throughout its history. The claim that they treated Jews well until Zionism is rote propaganda. Back in the 13th Century, the Jewish philosopher and doctor Maimonedes was forced to flee from Spain to Morocco, from Morocco to North Central Africa, from there to Egypt, all by Muslims, including his flight from Spain. He found sanctuary in Egypt mainly because his medical services were needed by the royalty.

Dhimmi under Islamic rule were forced to wear unfancy clothing, barred from riding a horse, forced to step off the sidewalk for any Muslim, never to repair or build another house of worship (planned gradual destruction), not to have an audible worship, often to wear a special badge and to pay a special tax (jizya) or tribute once per year, often stoned and spat on, especially by Muslim children, not accepted as witnesses against a Muslim, every Muslim at liberty to witness falsely against him (one negative customer review could destroy one’s life!), and the Muslims took advantage of these privileges the same as any mob would avail of a riot. This treatment is half the reason that almost all the Christians of Egypt, North Sudan, Syria and Iraq converted to Islam over the centuries. Many Jews did, as well, but most held firmer. So Christians today average under 5% (10-15% in Eqypt), whereas once they were over 90%.

Morocco is often alluded to as having treated the Jews unusually well. However, even there, in Morocco, the litany of outrageous oppression of Jews is long:

en.wikipedia.org

…and this was the “friendly” country.

Ignorance is evil because it enables evil.