RE: New Trends in Arabic Anti-semitism
November 26, 2010 at 6:01 am
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2010 at 6:06 am by Rayaan.)
(November 25, 2010 at 7:13 am)Skipper Wrote: Would really love to hear from the Muslim posters here about how this video is a conspiracy and how they follow a peaceful religion.
I felt simply sick at the end of this video, I honestly don't know how a species such as our own who had such great potential went so wrong. Thinking about the things we could have achieved and the world we could be living in by now had we not turned to religion makes me so angry.
The anti-Semitic comments in the video are not in harmony with the teachings of Islam.
Actually, it has nothing to do with Islam because the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews is mainly a political fight, not a religious fight. It is partly due to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, the alliances that the Arabs had with the Nazis, the Israeli victories during the wars of 1956 and 1967, and several other political events which took place between the Arabs and the Jews. Even the title of the video tells us that this is a "new trend" amongst the Arabs, which means that such a type of racism did not exist in the early days of Islam, but that it is only fueled by the later events.
Knowing this, we can reasonably say that the anti-Semitic comments in the video are simply a display of racism against the Jews (and maybe even arrogance).
But Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), in his
Last Sermon, said:
"
All mankind is from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab. Also, a white has no superiority over a black, nor does a black have any superiority over a white except by piety and good action."
What the Arabs in the video have done is that they took a few verses from the Quran, and they interpreted them beyond their meanings, which is not what was not originally commanded by God. So, this means that they didn't use their intellect very well (to understand the Quran). Their intellect was overtaken by their own discriminations and their feelings of superiority and hence the misinterpretations. In other words, they cannot reason properly because they have too much prejudice in their minds. But I'm confident that their is nothing in the Quran that tells us to "hate" the Jews.
Is there anti-Semitism in the Quran?:
http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php...the_quran/
