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Muslim anti-Semitism, Israel and the dynamics of self-destructive scapegoating
Daily Telegraph (blog) ^ | 12/1/11 | Richard Landes

Posted on 12/04/2011 11:10:11 AM PST by PRePublic

Richard Landes is an American writer and medieval historian specialising in millennialism. He is associate professor of history at Boston University and the author of several books including Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience (Oxford University Press). He has also, since turn of the millennium, become a critic of the mainstream news media (MSNM), in particular its treatment of both the Arab-Israeli conflict and more broadly the issue of Islamism and Global Jihad. He has two sites dedicated to these issues: The Second Draft and a blog, The Augean Stables.

Anti-Semitism is everyone's problem, including the Muslims'.

..among liberals in general. It takes a number of forms, all of which serve to explain the explosive and virulent hatreds of the Muslim world for Israel and the Jews (who support it), as a function of the evil that Israel has done to the Palestinians. It includes the widely held assumption that suicide bombings were a response to the despair that Palestinians felt because Israel denied them independence and dignity. ...

The argument, of course, can work inversely: Palestinian anti-Semites have produced icons of hatred that, through modern media, have spread the virus throughout the Muslim world...

Because the Western mainstream news media (MSNM) has mainstreamed some of this propaganda, many people, .. whose only data points are the TV images of terrible violence Israelis do to Palestinians, and TV images of Palestinian hatred – assume that the hatreds are at least in part justified. “No wonder French Muslims hate you,” the French would say to their Jewish co-citoyens, “look at what your brethren in Israel do to their cousins in Palestine.”


(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: egypt; islam; islamicantisemitism; israel; mb; muslimbrotherhood; palestine; racism

1 posted on 12/04/2011 11:10:13 AM PST by PRePublic
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2 posted on 12/04/2011 1:17:41 PM PST by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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Thanks PRePublic.


3 posted on 12/04/2011 6:10:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Landes still can't speak the truth, that from 619 CE, Islam has been anti-Jewish. There was no state Israel when the Mohammed and his follower butchered and enslaved the Jews of Yathrib/Medina, Jews who had foolishly given him refuge. There was not state of Israel when Mohammed's followers did the same to the Jews of Khaybar. There was no state of Israel or Zionist movement when Mohammed choose to celebrate this victory by raping Safiyya bint Huyayy, while still covered in the blood of her husband Kinana ibn al-Rabi.

Israel was occupied by the Byzantines when the Muslims invaded and turned a plurality of Jews and Samaritans into a small minority.

4 posted on 12/04/2011 11:29:53 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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