Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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“Moral Equivalence” Distorts Jewish-Muslim “Tension”
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Posted by:
Michael Medved at
2:53 PM
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National Public Radio recently provided a sickening demonstration of the “moral equivalence” blindness characterizing establishment media. Eleanor Beardsley reported on the “friction between Muslims and Jews in France,” home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities. Her reporting suggested the two communities share blame for “tension” following the fighting in Gaza, never acknowledging the utterly one-sided nature of the hostility.
Four synagogues were recently attacked with Molotov cocktails in France, two Jews were shot by Muslims in Denmark, and Jewish citizens have suffered assaults in Sweden, Britain, Belgium and most European countries. Muslim communities, however, suffered no serious backlash from the Middle Eastern fighting.
Left-leaning media compare Israel, which seeks only to stop rocket attacks, with Hamas, that openly demands Israel’s annihilation. They also equate European Jews who want only peace with European Muslims who try to maim and murder Jews.
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ascendancy. Fear not, it is only temporary. |
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Members of the media should read the Quran. Nowhere in the Bible does it say it is ok to kill Muslims. The Quran says it is ok to kill Jews and Christians and anyone else who does not convert.
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, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them (9:5)
The Quran has many references that call for violence. It is a really f--ked up book, scary that over one billion people use it for spiritual guidance.
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Many Arab countries have Jewish populations coexisting alongside Christians, and Muslims. Ottoman Turkey prided itself on religious freedom. So it is quite evident that Muslims do not go out hunting Christians and Jews at every opportunity.
Could it be that some Muslims have problems with the more militant Zionist movement that has force fit modern Israel on to lands forcefully removed from Arab ownership?
Here's an idea. Have the UN go into Israel and carve out a sizable chunk of it for a Palestinian state. It will be Okay because the UN does it so don't worry. Just move those displaced Israelis somewhere else, they won't mind one little bit. Then the Palestinians can form a country on lands that once belonged to Israeli's just like Israel did to the Arab Palestinians. Then they can all be fighting mad for similar reasons. |
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I take it you wrote about your UN plan as tongue-in-cheek? What a wonderful idea. That's exactly what the UN did already in 1947! 80% of the british-occupied land was for the Arabs (that became Jordan) and 20% was to be for the Jews. Later, they followed your plan and split that land in half. How well did that work out?
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couldn't have said it better myself.
people like "Charles" are never going to get it, because while "Charles" pretends to care about land and justice and so on, what he really cares about is killing Jews. |
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Your's is, if not 'moral equivalence,' 'moral superiority.'
Your dilemma is the self serving & conflict of interest nature of your claim, that you 'a Jew' claim 'moral superiority' for a Jewish Nation?
The Jew and the Jewish nation, see themselves through their own eyes.
Until your position is vindicated by God you are not much different than the Moslem saying the same.
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against Satan. And we can stop calling each other Satan and evil. Stop hating your neighbor whoever he is and call on God and the angels and saints to escort Satan back to hell where he belongs. |
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John,
You are mistaken about the Quran. It clearly states that non-believers must convert or die. Specifically, 9:5, commonly referred to as the "Verse of the Sword", revealed toward the end of Muhammad's life states:
9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat {the Islamic ritual prayers}), and give Zakat {alms}, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Because this was revealed later in Muhammad’s life than other more quoted citations (such as "no compunction in religion" (see 50:45, 109, and 2:256), the Verse of the Sword abrogates their peaceful injunctions. In case you don't know, abrogation is a central tenet in interpreting the Quran. The principle of abrogation -- al-naskh wa al-mansukh (the abrogating and the abrogated) -- directs that verses revealed later in Muhammad's career "abrogate" -- i.e., cancel and replace -- earlier ones whose instructions they may contradict. So that, there is a clear requirement that the Verse of the Sword controls.
Further, the Quran's commandments to Muslims to wage war in the name of Allah against non-Muslims are unmistakable. They are, furthermore, absolutely authoritative as they were revealed late in the Prophet's career and so cancel and replace earlier instructions to act peaceably. Without knowledge of the principle of abrogation, Westerners will continue to misread the Quran and misdiagnose Islam as a “religion of peace.”
Thus, I think you are seriously mistaken. Please read the Quran and the Sunnah again. I urge you to read the following link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015638.php some of which I quoted above. |
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Space limitations required a second post:
Also, the Sunnah -- the "Way" of the Prophet Muhammad -- clearly teaches that Muhammed directed followers to kill any and all Jews:
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177; Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour {of the Last Judgment} will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
Remember, in Islam, Muhammad is considered al-insan al-kamil (the "ideal man"). Muhammad is the model for all Muslims in how they should conduct themselves. It is not even that what Muhammad did is "acceptable". It is that whatever he did is desired. It is through Muhammad's personal teachings and actions -- which make up the "way of the Prophet," the Sunnah -- that Muslims discern what is a good and holy life. Details about the Prophet -- how he lived, what he did, his non-Quranic utterances, his personal habits -- are indispensable knowledge for any faithful Muslim. Thus, the Sunnah is extremely clear (and in fact requires) that Muhammed directed his followers to kill all of the Jews for the Hour of Last Judgment to come.
Again, I urge you to read the following link http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015638.php some of which I quoted above.
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Charles,
You said that “Many Arab countries have Jewish populations coexisting alongside Christians, and Muslims. Ottoman Turkey prided itself on religious freedom. So it is quite evident that Muslims do not go out hunting Christians and Jews at every opportunity.” I’m not sure if you are joking, given the latter part of your post. Regardless, your statement could not be further from the truth.
I am an Iraqi Jew, from one of the Muslim countries. Babylonian Jews were subject to persecution from the Persians when they controlled Babylonia to the Turks. Things deteriorated even more in the 1930s, where Iraqi Jews were increasingly subject to discrimination and harsh laws, dismissed from public service, and quotas were set up in colleges and universities. Periodically, there were “spontaneous” riots against the Jewish community in which hundreds were killed at a time. So, your attempt at revisionist history is simply incorrect. Muslims did, from time to time, go “hunting” (as you put it) against Jews.
As an aside, there were over 600,000 Jews in the Muslim countries disposed after the creation of the state of Israel. Many had to leave all of their possession (except for a wedding ring and a suitcase of clothes). Where, you may ask, are those Jews today? Are they in refugee camps? No, they were absorbed and became productive citizens of Israel, the United States and all over the world.
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But if the Israelis and the Jewish world community don't play thier situation the right way then they could be in big trouble. Forget the I am right you are wrong stuff when you need a viable strategy to combat growing world antijewish feelings.
Right now I am thinking Israel needs to make it clear Gaza is a war war and not an economic war because be it ever so irrational or not even unemployed Spaniards are going to blame the Jews based on peceptions that may not even be real, but the dead Jewish people wll be real. |
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