Why Muslim hate Jews and Christians?

Answer 1

Islamic followers don't necessarily HATE Jews. Basically when Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) died, they thought it would be easy to break Islam because it was becoming a powerful religion. So some Jews pretended to be Muslims and diverted Muslims to two different groups, The Sunnis and the Shias.

It would have made more sense if your question was the other way round. Just saying.

Answer 2

Not all Muslims are Anti-Semitic, but, unfortunately, a large number are.

Some are Anti-Semitic because their are Qur'anic verses inciting Jew-hatred (2:65-66, 5:51, 5:63, 9:29, etc.) along with a large number of Hadiths condemning the Jews who did not fight alongside Mohammed (Tree of Gharqar, the Slaughter of Banu Qurayza, the Exile of Banu Qaynuqa, the Slaughter of Khaybar, etc.).

Some of it is related to the Creation of the State of Israel and the antagonism many Muslims feel towards that state.

Answer 3

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Those Muslims who hate Jews and Christians are following parts of the Koran which encourage them to do so. These aspects of the Islamic faith are more strictly emphasized by certain "jihadist" groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Quaeda etc. Most Muslims do not follow these teachings, or at least place more emphasis on other parts of the Koran which suggest at least tolerance for Jews and Christians as "the people of the book" (referring to the Bible).

There is even disagreement (in recent times leading to violent conflict) even among those who teach hatred towards Jews and Christians, as exampled in the warning given by the Taliban to Isis regarding their violent extremism.

Answer 4

Jews are not against Islam. While Jews do not believe in Mohammed as a Divine Prophet, they do give Islam a degree of legitimacy. Judaism only requires that non-Jews follow the Noahide Laws and as Islam is in complete compliance with the Noahide Laws, it is seen as a viable and acceptable religion for non-Jews. As a result, Jews have no issue with Islam as a religion per se. However, there are some views that Islam holds about Judaism that could be considered Anti-Semitic, such as the concept of Maghdub 3alayhi (Q: 1:7), i.e. that Jews anger God or that Jews are insatiably greedy (Q: 2:96).

However, most issues that arise between Jews and Muslims are localized to particular political and territorial conflicts, moreso than theological problems.

Answer 5

Not all Muslims hate Jews, but for those who do, there are a number of such reasons.

1) Anti-Semitism: There are six major reasons that people and countries harbor Anti-Semitic views and often these exist in contradictions (i.e. one group will hate them for one side of this reason and another group at a different place and time will hate them for the exact opposite reason): (1) Perceptions of Jewish Economic Power, (2) Perceptions of Jewish Ethnocentrism/Chosen-ness, (3) Religious motivations for Jew-hatred (both in Christianity and Islam), (4) Otherness, (5) Genetic/Racial Inferiority, and (6) Perceptions of Disloyalty. It is worth noting that the seventh most common reason, Ease of Scapegoating, only makes sense if at least one of the other six is in play, otherwise we could simply scapegoat the unicyclists for the world's ills.

1A) Jewish Economic Power: The common Anti-Semitic canard here is that Jews control the banks. Of course, this is not true as most banks are not chaired or owned or controlled by Jews; many banks operate independently or are controlled by Non-Jews. For example the Big Four US Banks are all run by Non-Jews: Jaime Dimon (JP Morgan Chase), Chad Holliday (Bank of America), Michael O'Neill (Citigroup), and John Stumpf (Wells Fargo).

1B) Jewish Chosen-ness: The common Anti-Semitic canard here is that Jews believe themselves to be a superior ethnicity in the vein of the ubermensch or "White Pride". This is contrary to the Jewish understanding is that the Jewish people were charged with a distinct mission/task that the rest of the world was not assigned and this is to elevate the spiritual character of the world. The Anti-Semites then argue that because Jews believe themselves superior to Non-Jews that Jews take advantage of Non-Jews and feel no remorse for it.

1C) Religious Anti-Semitism: While Christianity and Islam are not inherently Anti-Semitism, their doctrines are easily to meld to an Anti-Semitic world vision and historically have been melded in such ways. Islam has several Anti-Semitic thrusts. In addition to the crucifixion of Jesus the Messiah (which is not deicide in Islam since Jesus is not God in Islamic theology and because Jesus eluded the attempt to crucify him), Muslims have made the argument that Jews are the killers of the Prophets plural, even though Jesus was the only one of the 35 prophets in the Qur'an who Jews attempted to kill (per Islamic teachings). Additionally, Muhammad and the early Muslims had negative political and military relationships with Arabian Jews which led to Anti-Semitism having a greater prominence in the early Islamic tradition.

1D) Otherness: The common Anti-Semitic canard here is that Jews are somehow different from other people and are, therefore, incapable of properly assimilating into the dominant culture. The argument went that their culture and beliefs were too odd for civil society and the Jews needed to be removed due to this customs incongruence. In the Islamic World, since Jewish Emancipation came hand-in-hand with Imperialism, the Jews who assimilated were deemed to be imperialist infiltrators.

1E) Racial Inferiority: The common Anti-Semitic canard here is that Jews are somehow genetically inferior or lesser than other humans. Interestingly, in Arab and African-American communities who practice this form of Anti-Semitism by arguing that Jews are a European offshoot of Khazaria and not as racially developed as Semites or Africans.

1F) Disloyalty: The common Anti-Semitic canard here is that Jews harbor more loyalty to each other (or, since 1948 to Israel) than to their fellow countrymen. Military defeats have been framed on Jews, such as the Ottoman defeat in the Egyptian-Ottoman War in 1831-1833, even though Jews did not even fight in this war. The evidence, however, is to the contrary. In nearly every case where Jews have been permitted to join the militaries of their host countries, they have enlisted in excess of their percentage. Throughout the Middle Ages, Jews were more loyal to the sovereign, especially since the sovereign would protect the Jews from rabid Anti-Semitic hordes of peasants.

2) Facelessness: Most people around the world, and especially in the Islamic World, have never met a Jew and only see Jews through the media portrayals of Israeli military actions or Jewish politicians in Western countries. As a result, "the Jews" are a people upon whom any claim of impropriety can be laid without a counterfactual relationship to see a Jew's humanity.

3) Israel's International Legal Violations: Israel has engaged in a number of policies in violation of international law, such as the unification of Jerusalem, the settlements in the West Bank, the annexation of the Golan Heights, etc.. Israel is not reticent for performing such acts and claims that it violates those laws because they are prejudicial to its rights and interests. If other countries did the same, (Iran is a great example), they are sternly reprimanded by the international community and forced to toe the line. The argument is often that because the Jews have control of international politics, that they are able to commit these violations with impunity while other countries cannot.

4) Anti-Colonialism: While Arab Nationalism was an anti-colonial movement, the general principles of the anti-colonialism led to a rejection of States based on European values in non-European locations with a large number of non-European (ethnically speaking) inhabitants. This sentiment was felt most strongly towards (South) Rhodesia, South Africa, and what would become Israel. Anti-colonialists believe that Asians and Africans had the right to Self-Determination pursuant to their cultures. However, Rhodesian and South African institutions could and did eventually convert to being African nations (in the true sense of the term) because their racist infrastructure could be reformed. Zionism is by default a government by the Jews and would cease to be Zionist if the Jews were taken out of the leadership position. Thus Zionism catches the ire of anti-colonialists.

5) Palestinian Indigenous Rights: The indigenous Palestinians and their descendants are aggrieved that people from abroad would come to the land that their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents had lived on and worked for as long as they could remember and buy that land from the Ottomans without consulting them. Moreover, these people had a particular agenda to establish a state on the land they called their own. Understandably, the Palestinians, and those who support them, are opposed to the Zionist project and the Jews who realized it for these emotional and political considerations. Additionally, the Israeli Military Occupation of the West Bank Territories and the Blockade of Gaza represents a true legal and humanitarian crisis for Supporters of an Independent Palestine and the Palestinian People. To many in the world community, the Palestinians must have the right to go back to their homes (although it is doubtful that the Arabs would have permitted that right to the Jews should the Arabs have been victorious in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9).

6) Arab Nationalism: Arab Nationalism as a movement crystallized in the 1930s and came to the political fore in the 1960s. Arab Nationalism is a movement that seeks to create an Arab State or multiple Arab States based on common cultural and historical markers. This movement began to make a tether between Arab cultural identity and Islamic religious identity. This was especially keen in places with large non-Muslim communities because those communities typically worked closely with the European colonizers seen to be repressing the Arab identity. Zionism, which is a movement based on a European cultural identity and a Jewish religious identity was antithetical to the Arab Nationalist movement ideologically and claims territory that Arab Nationalists also claim putting them at odds politically.

7) Islamism: Islamism, the political philosophy that Shari'a or Islamic Religious Law should be the grounds upon which a state is ruled (as opposed to Islam, which is the religion), want to create a government that falls within their stringent and puritanical view of Islamic moral standards. In the Islamist conception, only Muslims should be in power in the State and any non-Muslim minorities should have a secondary role if they should have one at all, whereas Jews are too "uppity" in having created a state where they are in the dominant position. Second, Israel is situated in territory which used to be governed by Muslims for nearly 1300 years (with a century-long break under the Crusader States). As a result, Israel is considered a usurpation of historical Islamic authority whereas European countries (for example) never had Islamic authority before. Islamists have talked about reintroducing the jizya tax, a symbol of humiliation for Non-Muslims in both the Gaza Strip and in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). At present, since no Jews live in either area, the primarily target of these laws would be Christians, but they do intend to subject the Jews to at least the jizya, if not outright execution and genocide, if they had the chance.

8) Islamic Lies About Jews: As can be seen from the Community Answer below, numerous Muslims have been improperly educated about their own past and fault the Jews for issues that arose within Islamic circles. For example, the Community Answer notes: "So some Jews pretended to be Muslims and diverted Muslims to two different groups, The Sunnis and the Shias." However, all of the Islamic leaders who were part of the divisive arguments between Sunni and Shiite Islam, such as Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman, Ali, Hassan, Hussein, Aisha, etc. were all Muslims who had converted from paganism to Islam. In fact, there would be no important Muslims who were converted Jews until midway through the 8th century (almost a century after the events that led to the Sunnis and Shiites separating). However, rather than give detailed explanations of the History of Islam to their youth, which would fault the divisions and problems in Islamic religious communities on internal struggles, issues of corruption, and personal motives within Islamic circles, they would rather blame some amorphous "Jewish conspiracy against Islam". Another reason this view is advocated is lay Muhammad blameless for his numerous atrocities against the Jewish communities in Medina (such as the forcible ejection of Banu Qaynuqa, the slaughter of all the males of Banu Qurayza, and the hunting down and slaughtering of Banu Nadir at Khaybar). If there was a "Jewish conspiracy against Islam" these massacres of Jews suddenly become heroic in defense of Islam as opposed to vile religion-based ethnic cleansing.

Answer 6

Answer according to Islam, not Christianity because the answer is asked to Islam