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To: yoe
"30 French imams insisted that Islam is not anti-Semitic."

Literally they are correct. Arabs are also Semites.

Semite: a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs

They are anti-Hebrew but not anti-Semite.

7 posted on 05/20/2018 1:59:11 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

The terms “anti-Semitic” and “anti-semitism” were expressly coined to refer to prejudice and hatred of Jews by a German professor named Wilhelm Marr in 1879; he founded a group called “The Anti-Semitic League” that year.


13 posted on 05/20/2018 11:23:03 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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