BLAMING THE JEWS: ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM PT.1 OF 3
MUSLIM VIEW:
‘Blaming the Jews’, David Aaronovitch, columnist for The Guardian and The Observer, attempts to establish the holy book of Islam, the Qur’an, as the fount of Muslim anti-Semitism. In it he makes the somewhat dubious and hyperbolic claim that:
"But if you read the Koran, and talk to Muslim scholars, it soon becomes clear that the book lends itself to interpretation . Mohammed’s travails include run-ins with unbelievers of all kinds including Jews, who - naturally - are wrong and perverse for not comprehending the transcendent truth of all that he says".
Mr Aaronovitch in his documentary qualifies this approach by quoting the Qur’anic verse "And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated!" (Chapter ‘The Cow’, verse 65) out of context without explanation of its meaning or reference to a qualified Muslim scholar, as evidence of Qur’anic anti-Semitism and hence the reference point for wider Muslim anti-Semitism.
What Mr Aaronovitch omitted was that this verse is not about the Jews per se, but concerns those historical Jews who actively broke the Jewish Sabbath (i.e. Mosaic Law as the law of God). Furthermore, Mr Aaronovitch fails to mention that the Prophet Muhammad (s) stated that those Muslims who similarly break the law of God will also be transformed into apes.
