Muhammad and the Jews

http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4610 ^ | June 30, 2005 | James Arlandson

[mal]

Everyone knows that many millions of the Muslims in the Arab world have a deep hostility towards Jews or “the Jew.” It seems to have reached a metaphysical level or has debased into an irrational state of mind.

The question is: where does it come from? From the anti-Israel news media? The media are powerful. So they may be a factor, partially.

Leaders in the Arab world and wider Muslim world constantly shriek that Israel is the oppressor, so this may be a factor in the hostility, but evidence that millions of average Muslims are influenced by their leaders on this matter must be brought forward, in a free and voluntary way without fear of reprisal in a dictatorship. It is difficult to imagine, for example, that millions of Muslims in Indonesia or Malaysia would become human bombs in Palestine or hate the Jews for this geopolitical reason.

So where does the deep and irrational hostility come from?

[Fudd]

Could this hostility come from their founding father, mohammed?

Oh, wait, this is a trick question. It's Bush's fault.

[auntyfemenist]

Yes, they did get it from their founder. This article gives some details about the origins of this. Pretty good, scholarly even.