Why do some Muslims hate Jews?

Answer 1

Answer 1

They don't. People think they do only because of the current tensions in the Middle East. Muslims and Jews had constant clashes during the past years, since both religions are so similar they argue who is right over the other. The religion dates back to over 4,000 years ago and both share the similar values. They also want the same land but that doesn't mean normal Muslims in general hate Jews. Certain Jews might not like Muslims and vice versa but in general normal citizens get along just fine. Just like Democrats and Republicans, and any other major opposite parties.

[Source: Talk to both sides of each religion]

Answer 2

Muslims do not hate Jews. Jews and Muslims lived for many centuries together. The Muslims even protected the Jews from the Christians, in the Middle Ages, because the Christians hated the Jews and Muslims.

Answer 3

Muslims and Jews have a long history of tension. They do not necessarily all hate each other, but there are many people who feel very strongly.

Answer 4

Before answering the questions, the underlying supposition that Muslims hate Jews (which is requisite for a "why" question) is suspect and problematic on account of a few issues:

1a) Who are Muslims? --> If Jews are varied, Islam is extraordinarily diverse. In order to bound Islam, ideologies will be restricted to how they are expressed in decisions of the Major Madrassas and Respected Ulemaa. This way crazies are excised.

1b) Who are Jews? --> There are many sects of Jews who believe many different things. These group's ideologies will be bound to how they are expressed in the Literature provided by Jewish Movements. This way crazies are excised.

1) What should be made clear from this is that not everyone who is a Muslim holds an Islamic view and not everyone who is a Jew holds a Jewish view. Therefore there are non-Islamic Muslims who hate Jews counter to their religious values for reasons that are not officially sanctioned.

2) Most Qur'anic representations of Jews (with the exception of the famous "Monkeys and Pigs" line) are positive or neutral. Jews are seen as the first recipients of divine law and should be treated with more reverence than pagans. This concept is described as the Dhimmi status and term Ahl Al-Kitaab (which means people of the Book). There are angry quotations of the Prophet's against Jews, but these have a specific context. The Prophet was nearly always at war from the time of the Hejira until his death and there were occasions where he opposed Jewish Tribes. (It is also important to note that when he resolved the dispute between Aws and Khazraj, two powerful tribes in Medina, there were five Jewish Tribes that gave him refuge from his enemies in Mecca.)

However, there are certainly "card-carrying" Muslims who hate Jews and pretending this does not exist does not help anybody. Muslims who hate Judaism typically do not hate it on religious grounds (i.e. Muslims do not typically hate Jews for rejecting the Prophet's message.) Muslims who hate Jews typically do so from a political perspective. Currently, the majority of Jews endorse the State of Israel as a political extension of Jewish identity. Many Muslims reject that a Jewish State should exist, particularly Israel because many Palestinian Muslims had been living on that land for generations and should not have to bequeath it to Europeans as a result of European calamities (the Holocaust etc.). Muslims maintain that Jews lived well under Muslim rule and see no reason why Jews need an independent political state, especially one that is currently responsible for at least four million refugees, seven wars, and numerous other problems.

Many Muslims hate Jews because they associate Jews with power and finance while most of the Muslim world is poor. In addition, they feel that Jews have a very strong voice as concerns the policy of European nations. These two factors combined appear to force the Muslim World to remain poor while Israel flourishes. Anti-Semitic and Anti-Zionist symbols are used to communicate these feelings of rejection because they consider the Jews to be the cause of this rejection by World Powers.

Answer 5

Really good question.

Firstly, I think the questions requires rectification:

a. "hate" is probably not the right word. a better replacement might be "not tolerate".

b. "Jews" (not "Jewish) is also probably not the right word. a better replacement be "any other religion".

NEW QUESTION: Why do Muslims (Islam) not tolerate other religions so much?

I think its important to identify that not all Muslims hate other religions. I'm sure there is a significant percentage of Muslims that are tolerant of other religions.

However, like in all religions there are elements that we classify as 'fundamentalist' - they see everything from a perspective that their way is the only way and they want to impose their way on everybody else. And if anyone gets in their way, or does not convert to their way, then that person must be an enemy which leads to the extent of killing becoming justified from their perspective.

Unfortunately, the fundamentalist attitude, which almost always comes from a minority proportion, has the loudest voice and attracts the most attention and gets the most media coverage.

On the whole, people of all religions live in harmony side by side with each other, in most countries around the world.

That said, why does Islam in particular have a perception of 'hatred' to Jews [and others]? Have a look below at some quotes from the Koran. They're not very pretty and it doesn't seem to show much tolerance.

Keep in mind Christians had the Crusades during the Middle Ages, and if I'm not mistaken, the Catholic Church believes that non-believers of Jesus will go to hell. That's not that pretty either.

Interestingly, there have been times throughout history when Jews preferred to live under Muslim rule (e.g. rather than Christian rule) because at the time the Muslims tolerated Jews more than others.

So the main solution to the problem of interfaith intolerance, is that we have to influence the society and world we live in today. We all need to dig deeper spiritually, every religion, to appreciate that peace and harmony is the only way forward. I think that's what God wants. I'm pretty sure that's what the Jewish religion wants.

Answer 6

Here is just a sample of Mohammad's revelations:

Everything Those Infidels Have Everywhere In the World Already Belongs to the Muslims, Take It

Qur'an 33.27 And He made you heirs to their land and their dwellings and their property, and (to) a land which you have not yet trodden, and Allah has power over all things.

Qur'an 21:44 Do they see Us advancing, gradually reducing the land (in their control), curtailing its borders on all sides? It is they who will be overcome. NOTE: Political Correctness and Multiculturalism has proven to be the most powerful weapon for the advancement of Dar al-Islam since 1945.

About Those Annoying Non-Believers (Infidels, Pagans, Jews, Christians, etc.)

Qur'an 9:123 "murder them and treat them harshly"

Qur'an 3.28 Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends rather than believers; and whoever does this, he shall have nothing of (the guardianship of) Allah, but you should guard yourselves against them, guarding carefully; and Allah makes you cautious of (retribution from) Himself; and to Allah is the eventual coming.

NOTE: By 'guarding carefully', a Muslim should deceive the infidel. Acting as a friend is fine as long as it is to benefit the Muslim and protect Islam.

Qur'an 3:56 "As for those disbelieving infidels, I will punish them with a terrible agony in this world and the next. They have no one to help or save them."

Qur'an 4.89 They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.

Qur'an 5:51 "Muslims, do not make friends with any but your own people."

Qur'an 5:72 "They are surely infidels who say; 'God is the Christ, the Messiah, the son of Mary."

Qur'an 8:12 cp. 8:60 "Instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers"; "smite above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them"

Qur'an 2:191 "...kill the disbelievers wherever we find them"

Qur'an 9.33 He it is Who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions.

Qur'an 2:193 "And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah"

Qur'an 8:71 And if they intend to act unfaithfully towards you, so indeed they acted unfaithfully towards Allah before, but He GAVE YOU MASTERY OVER THEM

Qur'an 8:55 Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's sight are those who disbelieve.

Qur'an 22:19-22 "fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem" "for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods"

Qur'an 48:13 Those who "believe not in Allah and His Messenger, He has prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire!"

Qur'an 3:54 "'Lord, we believe in Your revelations (the Torah and Gospels) and follow this Apostle (Jesus). Enroll us among the witnesses.' But the Christians contrived a plot and Allah did the same; but Allah's plot was the best."

Qur'an 8:12 "Your Lord inspired the angels with the message: 'I will terrorize the unbelievers. Therefore smite them on their necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes."

Qur'an 8:58 "If you apprehend treachery from any group on the part of a people (with whom you have a treaty), retaliate by breaking off (relations) with them. The infidels should not think they can bypass (Islamic law or the punishment of Allah). Surely they cannot escape."

Qur'an 8:7 "Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: 'Wipe the infidels (non-Muslims) out to the last.'"

Qur'an 8:39 "So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam."

Qur'an 8:59 "The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah's enemy."

Qur'an 8:7 "Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: 'Wipe the infidels (non-Muslims) out to the last.'"

Qur'an 4:101 "The unbelievers (non-Muslims) are your inveterate foe."

Qur'an 8:60 "Prepare against them (non-Muslims) whatever arms and cavalry you can muster that you may strike terror in the enemies of Allah (non-Muslims), and others besides them not known to you. Whatever you spend in Allah's Cause will be repaid in full, and no wrong will be done to you."

Bukhari:V4B56N814 "There was a Christian who embraced Islam and he used to write the revelations for the Prophet. Later on he returned to Christianity again he used to say: 'Muhammad knows nothing but what I have written for him.'"

Qur'an 9.28 O you who believe! the idolaters are nothing but unclean, so they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque (Mecca) after this year; and if you fear poverty then Allah will enrich you out of His grace if He please; surely Allah is Knowing Wise.

NOTE: In 631 A.D. (less than one year before his death, Muhammad had a revelation. No infidels allowed into Mecca (9:28). This also included the idolators, i.e., the original worshippers of the Kabaa who had not submitted to Islam. They were history, what few were left by this time.

Qur'an 9.29 Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

Qur'an 9.30 And the Jews say: Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!

Qur'an 47:4 "Strike off the heads of the disbelievers"; and after making a "wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives."

Hadith Sahih Muslim (41:6985) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:

The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Hadith Sahih Bukhari (4:52:176) Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:

Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.' "

Hadith Sahih Bukhari (4:56:791) Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:

I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The Jews will fight with you, and you will be given victory over them so that a stone will say, 'O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; kill him!' "

Hadith Sahih Muslim (41:6981) Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:

You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is a Jew (hiding himself behind me); kill him.

Hadith Sahih Muslim (41:6982) Ubaidullah has reported this hadith with this chain of transmitters (and the Words are):

"There is a Jew behind me."

Hadith Sahih Muslim (41:6983) Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:

You and the Jews would fight against one another until a stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.

Hadith Sahih Muslim (41:6984) Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:

The Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory over them until the stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; kill him.

Hadith Sahih Muslim (41:6985) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:

The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Bukhari:V9B84N59 "Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: "None has the right to be worshipped but Allah." Whoever says this will save his property and his life from me.'"

Jihad, Jihad and more Jihad

Qur'an 47:4 So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates. That (shall be so); and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of you by means of others; and (as for) those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will by no means allow their deeds to perish.

Qur'an 21:44 Do they not see Us advancing, gradually reducing the land (in their control), curtailing its borders on all sides? It is they who will be overcome.

Qur'an 47.35 And be not slack so as to cry for peace and you have the upper hand, and Allah is with you, and He will not bring your deeds to naught.

Bukhari:V4B53N412 "Allah's Apostle said on the day of the conquest of Mecca, 'There is no migration now, only Jihad, holy battle. And when you are called for Jihad, you should come out at once.'"

Answer 7

Not all Muslims hate Jews but some Muslims see the taking of force of their homeland as one of the main reasons to have less-than-favorable opinions of Jews.

Well really some Jew's don't like Muslims and most Muslims don't like the Jew's.

But really its to do with the battles between the Muslims and Jews about Mohammad (pbuh) To be honest they are pretty alike. It was noted in the news about Hanukkah (sorry if its wrong) and a Muslims celebration (Eid) and the Jews and Muslims shared the same hall and were bonding.

So really most of the Jews and Muslims don't hate each other!

Answer 8

The majority of Muslims are very peaceful and do not hate Jews. Unfortunately, some of them have misinterpreted some of the teachings in the Koran to mean that any area previously Muslim must be reconquered by Islam and forcibly converted back. This includes Israel.

Answer 2

Answer 1

Before answering the questions, the underlying supposition that Jews hate Moslems (which is requisite for a "why" question) is suspect and problematic on account of a few issues:

1a) Who are Jews? --> There are many sects of Jews who believe many different things. These groups' ideologies will be bound to how they are expressed in the Literature provided by Jewish Movements. This way any crazies are excised.

1b) Who are Moslems? --> If Jews are varied, Islam is extraordinarily diverse. In order to bound Islam, ideologies will be restricted to how they are expressed in decisions of the Major Madrassas and Respected Ulemaa. This way crazies are excised.

1) What should be made clear from this is that not everyone who is a Jew holds a Jewish view and not everyone who is Moslem holds an Islamic view. Therefore there are Jews who hate Moslems counter to Jewish values and for reasons that are not officially sanctioned.

2) Jews are not commanded to hate or in any other way despise Moslems. Most Jewish literature on Islam is positive, considering it part of God's plan so that the world would know Him. Moslems are to be treated with deference that is less than that which a Jew receives, equal to the deference that a Christian receives, and greater than that given to religions outside the three monotheistic faiths.

However, there are certainly "card-carrying" Jews who hate Moslems and pretending this does not exist does not help anybody. Jews who hate Islam typically do not hate it on religious grounds (i.e. Jews do not hate Moslems because they believe in Mohammed's message.) Jews who hate Moslems typically do so from a political perspective. Currently, the majority of Jews endorse the State of Israel as a political extension of Jewish identity. Many Moslems reject either (or both) the validity of Israel as a Jewish State or the actions taken by Israel to defend the Jewish State. This rejection of what many Jews see as part of their identity brings about the ire and hatred the question brings up.

Many Jews see Anti-Zionism as Anti-Semitism, and increasingly in the Moslem World, Anti-Zionism is becoming Anti-Semitism. The difference between them is that Anti-Zionism opposes Jewish political independence while Anti-Semitism opposes Jewish belief and practice. (Therefore saying that Israel has no right to defend itself is Anti-Zionist, but saying that Jews are descended from monkeys and pigs is Anti-Semitic.) The casual nature with which both Anti-Zionist and Anti-Semitic remarks are used in the Moslem World has also caused a good number of Jews to hate Moslems because they perceive Moslems as not caring or seeing as legitimate Jewish concerns and beliefs.

Answer 2

No one can make the generalization that all of one group of people hate another. To be sure, there are some Jews who hate Muslims, just as there are some Muslims who hate Jews. But the faiths of both teach peace.

Answer 3

That "why" would be almost impossible to explain, since the statement that follows it is false.

Answer 4

Many Jews do hate Muslims because Muslims have done wrongs to the Jews, since the building of the nation-state Israel. Examples:

1. Muslim Arabs terrorized the Jewish community in Israel before Israel was declared a state.

2. Muslim Arabs have opened 3 all-out wars against Israel in 1947, 1967, and 1973, leading to the death of many Jews.

3. Muslim Arabs have committed, and are still committing these days, many horrific terrorist actions against Israeli citizens, killing hundreds just in the last decade and a half, and wounding many more.

Answer 5

The question is meaningless. Jews do not "hate Muslims".

Additional Answer:

A totally unfounded question and one that usually causes a 'chasm' between people instead of looking for a bridge. It is generalizations like this that cause much of the hurt/death amongst God's children. They should be avoided.

We must all come to understand that we each are a collection of good and evil and that our minds cannot properly discern the right way of living. The 'god' of this world deceives all mankind and tries his best to have us compete between each other - to any length.

The Prophet Jeremiah was inspired to tell us that our human or natural minds are not adept in discerning right from wrong (Jeremiah 10:23). Therefore, as Paul tells us, we must first learn God's way of discernment (Hebrews 5:14).

Jesus lived a perfect life as an example to all of us. He left us a 'new' Command, similar to the Old Testament Command but with Him as our perfect example: Love one another as I have Loved you.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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. These issues and views are not unique to Muslims but embraced by many Muslims.

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 easy 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) Systemic "Religionism": In the US South in the 1980s, segregation was no longer legal, but the imprint of segregation was still felt in the south. Miscegenation between Blacks and Whites was not really accepted and Whites generally had a negative attitude toward Blacks, even though they were legally equal. This is called Systemic Racism. It is much the same situation in most Islamic Countries, but with religion instead of race. Historically, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, and Hindus under Islamic governments were second-class citizens and so the transition to making them truly equal partners suffers from this history. Conversely, very few Muslims (prior to the last 50 years) lived in minority-Muslim countries, preventing the development of an Islam without Systemic Religionism.

9) Qur'anic Injunctions: Of course, different Muslims interpret the Qur'an differently, but there are certainly Qur'anic verses that can be read by those seeking to be intolerant of good grounds to do so. Q: 3:19 claims that the only religion that is acceptable to God is Islam. Q: 3:110 claims that Muslims are the best people in all history. Q: 8:55 claims that those who disbelieve are the worst of animals. Q: 9:29 argues for the repression and inequality of Jews and Christians before Muslims. -- There are numerous other verses that promote the view that intolerance and inequality between Muslims and Non-Muslims is Divinely Supported, creating difficulty in rejecting it. Additionally, the Qur'an has numerous verses that are Anti-Semitic or Hateful towards Christians.

10) Denial of Intolerance: Most Muslims refuse to believe that they discriminate or harbor any animus towards individuals of different faiths. (There are some exceptions like Sheikh Hamza Yusuf who has noted that Muslim violence against Jews in the US is more common than all violence against Muslims, but he is rare in this respect.) Individuals who openly criticize and comment on the discrimination, both legal and systemic of religious minorities are given death threats and told to their faces that they are lying. Politicians who try to make laws that are more equal or less biased have been assassinated (especially in Pakistan). Non-Muslims are forced to apologize for "inciting" any rage that is manifested towards them. In a society where the discriminated cannot get their message into the open, people will not be able to realize what is happening.

11) Community Reinforcement: The Muslim Community generally has internal reinforcement of the notions that the Jews are eternal enemies of Muslims, are descended from apes and pigs, kill Muslims for enjoyment, and many other forms of commonplace Anti-Semitic rhetoric. There are numerous rallies where Muslims declare their unending support to the eradication of the Jewish people and will occasionally praise Hitler's "achievements" in this regard. There are some center-line Muslims (in addition to more liberal Muslims) who oppose this like Yusuf Hamza and Tariq Ramadan, but polls among Muslim communities show deeply-ingrained Anti-Semitic attitudes and a lack of knowledge about actual Jewish customs, beliefs, and history.

12) Fifth Column: Jews, especially, but also Christians and Hindus are seen by many Muslims as fifth columns in Islamic countries supporting foreign powers. Jews are usually accused of being "Zionists", a term which is never properly defined, and supporting Israel. Christians are usually seen as supporting the West against the Islamic countries. Hindus are often seen as spies from India against Pakistan. This makes these minorities untrustworthy to the Muslim-majority unless they clearly disavow any association with the country/ies to which they supposedly have allegiance instead of the Islamic State.

13) Islamic Supremacism: Islam has several doctrines which are followed by a small radicalized minority that call for a continued conquest of Non-Islamic Countries to be ruled by Muslims and to become part of a worldwide Islamic Empire. These groups believe in using violence to as well as politics to overpower and frighten Non-Muslims into accepting their school of thinking.

14) Islamic Lies About Jews: Numerous Muslims have been improperly educated about their own past and fault the Jews for issues that arose within Islamic circles. For example, some Muslims argue that: "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 to 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 5

Any Jews who hate all (or most) Moslems are behaving in a way which is contrary to Judaism.

The Torah does not command the Jews to hate any race or nationality, including even Amalek.

It is a normal thing to hate those who want to kill you.
Moslems who coexist peacefully are treated as well as anyone else.See also the Related Link.

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Answer 6

Why are you making that assumption? Jews and Muslims lived in relative peace for centuries. When we are not being attacked, we can get along with them quite well.