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Thread #156859   Message #3699374
Posted By: GUEST
03-Apr-15 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: April Fools Joke? Nope.
Subject: RE: BS: April Fools Joke? Nope.
I don't know whether the Koran says anything about hating Jews, but if it does that part was certainly ignored until the mid-twentieth century

Examples of early Muslim antisemitism: 9th-century "persecution and outbreaks of violence"; 10th- and 11th-century antisemitic propaganda that "made Jews out to be untrustworthy, treacherous oppressors, and exploiters of Muslims". This propaganda "inspired outbreaks of violence and caused many casualties in Egypt". An 11th-century Moorish poem describes Jews as "a criminal people" and alleges that "society is nearing collapse on account of Jewish wealth and domination, their exploitation and betrayal of Muslims; that Jews worship the devil, physicians poison their patients, and Jews poison food and water as required by Judaism, and so on.

Schweitzer, Frederick M. and Perry, Marvin Anti-Semitism: myth and hate from antiquity to the present, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, ISBN 0-312-16561-7