Muslim Jew-hatred is justified
Jan Samuelsson
Translation by Mårten Barck
Swedish original: "Muslimers hat mot judar är befogat"
(Dagens Nyheter, 2003/10/25)See also: "Silence surrounds Muslim Jew-hatred"
(Sverker Oredsson and Mikael Tossavainen, Dagens Nyheter/Watch, 2003/10/20)
In an article in DN Debatt 20/10 the growing Jew-hatred among Muslims is presented. The two authors, one of whom is director of the Swedish committee against anti-Semitism, complain that Jew-hatred among "Arabs and Muslims" is silenced.
I'm sure that Muslims in Sweden will come out and say that there is no hatred against Jews in the congregation he or she belongs to, but that it is prevalent in other Muslim organizations, which by sheer fortune happen to be competitors to their own.
But let me say it at once. On the basis of my very close contacts with Muslims in Sweden for more than 30 years as a specialist on Islamic topics I can immediately confirm that there exists what can be described as hatred or intense aversion against Jews in certain groups of Arab-speaking Muslims in Sweden.
This hatred is, in my opinion, both understandable, reasonable and justified.
Its origin is not to be found in some murky eugenic theories in 19:th Century Europe. Neither can there be found, as in Christianity, an anti-Semitic current in the history of Islam. On the contrary, I'm almost inclined to say.
The explanation for this hatred is the Jewish occupation of Arab land and the daily violence which Arabs are subjected to by the Jewish state.
This Jew-hatred is primarily a modern phenomenon born out of the assaults against Arabs in the Middle East by the state of Israel.
Muslim Arabs are often eager to embrace anything that can be used against the state of Israel. This can lead to the willingness to believe that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an authentic document in which Jews describe how they will take over the whole world — literally. In the worst case it can also lead to Arabs letting an ugly cuckoo as Adolf Hitler slip into the nest, by the use of the primitive model "the enemies of the Jews are our friends".
There is only one solution. The Jewish occupiers must retreat from Arab land. Before that happens no one can expect or demand the ceasement of Arab Jew-hatred.
Jan Samuelsson
Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Religions
[Posted 2003/11/04]
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