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I keep wondering if Islamic anti-semitism is this sublimated identity crisis given the fact that the whole religion is based on Judaic and Zorastrian monotheism with a number of local pagan notions tossed in on the side. That could start nagging on the most faithful.

[dennisw]

I keep wondering if Islamic anti-semitism is this sublimated identity crisis given the fact that the whole religion is based on Judaic and Zorastrian monotheism with a number of local pagan notions tossed in on the side. That could start nagging on the most faithful.

Muhammad definitely had no success getting Jews to convert. They rejected him when he was younger and powerless. He remembered this and came back with a vengeance to decimate Jewish tribes in Arabia (today's Saudi Arabia) when he had the power. He had his Muslims face pagan Mecca (home of many idols and gods including Allah, then just a moon god) for prayer instated of Jerusalem.

Definitely Islam is very conflicted in it's hatred and Jihad for Christians and Jews, since it draws so much (steals from actually) from Judaism and Christianity. The only time Muslim peoples can get along with Christians and Jews (and this happens from time to time) is when they forget and ignore the Koranic commandments for Jihad until the whole world is Muslims.