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Posted on 10/14/2012 4:28:32 PM PDT by markomalley
Muhammad Galaa Idris, who is the head Hebrew Studies Department at Tanta University in Egypt, has claimed that Pope Benedict XVI is either Jewish or has been “Judaized.” The Egyptian academic said this earlier this year in an interview with Al-Rahma TV, according to footage recorded and translated by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute. “The current pope Benedict IV or VII or whatever is even more Zionist then Herzl,” said Idris, adding “I follow his statements, and I’ve already said, that if that man is not a Jew then he has been Judaized, ” he concluded outrageously.
When asked by the host to provide examples of the pope’s Zionism, Idris said that “he recognized what the Nazis did to the Jews, the Jewish Holocaust,” and that, “all his statements are hostile to the Arabs and the Muslims.” Idris provided a reviewed of the "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” - an anti-Semitic fiction widely recognized as a fraud perpetrated by the government of Czar Nicholas II yet widely cited ever since - for the same channel, portraying its false assertions as fact.
Well, there’s this FR post about polling Jews:
“Jewish type names are easily recognizable. Not that they are all Jewish or support the Demorat ticket but most can feel assured that the name does reflect being Jewish.”
When Mark Steyn says he’s not Jewish but plays one on TV, he’s not kidding about what some of his audience thinks!
Maybe an oxymoron is a disabled moron on oxygen.
ok, I don’t know who said that, but it’s playing to stereotypes.
Trying to gigure out if someone is Jewish from a name has lots of pitfalls.
Some names, like Shapiro, for instance are rather obvious. Others which are Germanic are problematics. Names like Klein, Stein, Friedmann, Marx, etc. are ubiquitous throughout the German speaking world and have absolutely nothing to do with being Jewish.
OH! Terrible Pun!
(thanks.) : )
The sad thing is, though, that this crazy guy in Egypt is attempting to paint a much bigger target on the Pope’s back by getting all his cronies to look at the Pope in this light.
There were a lot of Jews in Yathrib (Medina) at the time of the Hegira in 622—but it’s possible that some of the Arabian Jews of that period were descendants from converts rather than from the original Israelites. There were Jews in a town or oasis in NW Arabia who made a treaty with Muhammad and were allowed to stay there, and I once saw something from the late 19th or early 20th century which implied that they were still there, but I don’t know if that information was correct then (let alone now).
there were no Christians in 70 B.C.
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They were ahead of their time?
ha ha — good catch, apologies for the BC/AD mixup
these were the group called the “lost prophets” who (just like me) mixed up their coins and stamped some 70 BC :)
bumpus ad summum
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