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Bigots shield behind conservative facade : Comments

By Irfan Yusuf, published 12/3/2007

Liberty and xenophobia don't make comfortable bedfellows.

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In a sense Irfan has addressed the issue of the Umma's antisemitism. In his post of Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:57:39 AM he wrote:

>>Certainly anecdotal evidence backed up by limited polling suggests Muslims and Jews seem to hate each other.>>

A grudging admission certainly. But there it is.

Irfan goes on to say:

>>Certainly the support given by Jewish groups to racists like Israeli and Pipes suggests levels of hatred at extreme levels.>>

At this point I could come up with a very VERY long list of Jew hating Muslims who enjoy widespread support and whose unhinged rants make anything Prof Israeli or Daniel Pipes may have said look urbane and coolly logical in comparison. But why bother?

Do Jews hate Muslims?

Did we hate Nazis?

I'll admit it. We have this unreasonable tendency to hate people who keep saying that, given the chance, they'll kill us. It's just one of those many undesirable traits we Jews have. Must have something to do with our association with apes and pigs.

Apes and pigs?

"In a weekly sermon in April 2002, Al-Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, ... called the Jews "the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs"

http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sr&ID=SR01102

The aforementioned Tantawi who called us descendants of apes and pigs, was at the time "Grand Sheikh" of Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Al Azhar calls itself the world's oldest university. It is certainly the world's most prestigious Islamic University.

Imagine the rector of Harvard University calling Muslims "descendants of apes and pigs!"

Irfan, you've answered my question. As the proportion of Muslims in Australia grows life for Jews here is going to become increasingly unpleasant, perhaps even untenable.

Netab says >>They will add to and change our culture for the better and hopefully will show more tolerance to the next wave of people with a cultural difference, than they have been shown>>

You reckon?
Posted by tortasaurus, Thursday, 12 April 2007 12:33:16 AM
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A few additional points.

One of the people Irfan loves to hate is Daniel Pipes. You may want to make your own assessment of Dr. Pipes. Here is a link to his website:

http://www.danielpipes.org/

Another of Irfan's pet aversions is Prof. Raphael Israeli. Here is some information about Prof. Israeli.

http://www.acpr.org.il/people/risraeli.html

Professor Israeli has written extensively on Muslim Jew hatred. A partial list of his publications may be found by searching Amazon.

Prof Israeli is Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Unlike Grand Sheikh "apes and pigs" Tantawi's Cairo institution, Hebrew University boasts a number of recent science Nobel Prize winners among its alumni.

And now it's time for this old man to go to bed.
Posted by tortasaurus, Thursday, 12 April 2007 1:02:53 AM
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