in the name of God the most gracious the
most compassionate today I want to
address the following question are
Muslims anti-semitic is Islam
anti-jew No Islam is not anti-jew no
Muslims are not anti-semitic for the
following reasons the first is when we
go into history we see that when the
quranic principles the Quran being the
book of the Muslims and the prophetic
traditions of the Prophet Muhammad upon
whom be peace when they were manifested
in our society especially in history we
see that the Jews live favorably and we
can justify this by using Jewish
historians and primary sources for
instance we have the Contemporary Jewish
historian Z zahar he said thus when the
Muslims crossed the Straits of ji in the
Iberian Peninsula the Jews saw the
Muslims as liberators from Christian
persecution also we have a 19th century
Jewish historian a gret he said the Jews
live favorably under the muhammadans in
other words the Muslims we have Aman
Kohan in his two volume book a world
with then he collected a th000 judicial
records under the ottoman period and he
concluded that although the Jews had the
freedom to go to the rabinal courts the
majority of them decided to go to theadi
theadi meaning the Islamic judge because
they knew that justice peace and Harmony
lived in Islam lived under Islam we also
have primary sources for instance the
book by by Philip Manel called
Constantinople he cites a rabbi in
1453 writing a letter to his Jewish
brothers and he writes oh my brethren
come to the land of the Turks the land
of the Muslims Rich are the fruits of
the Earth We're Not oppressed with heavy
taxes and we live in peace and Harmony
we have another primary source which can
be found in the book The Heart of Islam
the primary source is a poem by a sage
and a poet who happens to be Jewish as
well his name is Abraham IB Ezra and he
wrote The Following poem the Muslims
sing of love and of passion the
Christians of war and revenge the Greeks
of wisdom and devices the Indians of
Parables and riddles and the Israelites
songs and praises to the Lord of hosts
so you see this poem here talks about
the Muslims speak about love and passion
so you see it's almost like a social
commentary of Muslim attitudes and Islam
at that time so from a historical
perspective we can conclude that Muslims
treated the Jews kindly that the Islamic
environment when you had the quranic
principles and the prophetic Traditions
manifesting themselves from a social
political perspective you saw nothing
but Justice love and harmony for the
Jewish people let's not forget about is
Islamic Spain where the Islamic
principles from the Quran and the
prophetic Traditions created an amazing
environment a convenia a coexistence
between the Christians the Jews and the
Muslims which facilitated the likes of
myones
M who is considered by the Jewish
Scholars as the second
Moses so from historical perspective we
see that Islam and Muslims are not
anti-jew anti-Semitic now someone may
argue but wait a minute there's an issue
here because this may be a historical
accident but I would disagree because
this is as a result of the prophetic
traditions and the Quran because let's
look what the prophetic teachings have
to say for instance the prophet Muhammad
upon whom be peace he said in a
prophetic tradition that the one who
doesn't show Mercy will not be shown
Mercy we have another prophetic
tradition from the prophet Muhammad upon
who be peace when he said there there is
no harming and no reciprocating of harm
we also have more a more specific Hadith
a more specific tradition talking about
non-muslims when the prophet Muhammad
upon whomp said whoever harms a
non-muslim under our protection harms
the prophet
himself also when we go to the Quran we
see some amazing verses concerning
compassion and concerning treatment of
others for example in chapter 90 which
is called the City the Quran says verse
number 12 what will explain to you what
the ascent
is it is the freeing of a slave or the
feeding in times of
Famine of an orphan relative or some
needy person in distress and to be one
of those who believe and urge one
another to steadfastness and
compassion also we have the Quran
speaking about the treatment of people
who do not fight you and do not betray
you and do not oppress you the Quran
says in the 60th chapter verse number8
he does not forbid you to do kindly and
justly with anyone who has not fought
you on account of your faith or driven
you out of your homes God loves the just
so we see the Quran here really gives us
the principle to differentiate between
political strife and treatment of
humanity in general as the Quran says be
kind and just to those who don't fight
you and those who don't drive you out of
your homes so brothers sisters and
friends we see from a historical
perspective and looking to the quranic
teachings and the prophetic teachings
that Muslims and Islam is not anti-jew
is not
anti-Semitic