The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History

By Andrew G. Bostom

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1654264318
• ISBN13: 9781654264314
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 825 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.9" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A Factual Historic Analysis

Andrew Bostom has performed an invaluable service in editing this volume. All one hears are opinions and projections of personal beliefs onto the religion of Islam. (Our President's view is one such example.) Using the words and expositions of Islamic leaders and scholars, rather than our own revisionism, Dr. Bostom shows clearly that there is a very long history of anti-Jewish bias and prejudice in Islamic thought. The concept that all this "anti-Zionism" is a phenomenon of the 20th century is put to rest in a clear, cool and scholarly fashion. His opening esssay - with ca. 1,000 footnotes - should be required reading in every house of worship and university in the Western world. Sadly, this will not happen but readers can purchase the book and see the facts for themselves.

I Could Not Put the Book Down!

From Kenneth Ellman, Newton, New Jersey,07860, ke@kennethellman.com I have recently finished reading "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism by Bostom." I could not put the book down. I read it three times, perhaps more. I am still reading it again. Bostom's presentation, organization and source material being vaster than my previous exposure gave an immersion that was both compelling and revealing. I am familiar with the Koran having studied from the very well done edition "Revised and Edited by The Presidency of Islamic Researches, IFTA, Call and Guidance" published by the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur-an. I have also read from various books such as "The Meaning of the Quran by Maududi" which is published by Islamic Publications (Pvt) Ltd. Lahore. There are parts of the Koran that impressed me with its adoption of the high moral and religious teaching of the Old Testament and parts that astounded me in its banality. I do believe that the Koran was written for its audience at that time. Perhaps for those people it fulfilled and gave them what was then needed. Certainly the commentary and Judicial decision of the Muslim community give greater insight into the meaning the Koran has for its community and geography. But Bostom has now done a great service to those who want to learn. Every once in a while a book is created by a dedicated individual like Bostom who possesses the skill, commitment and time to exhaustively exclaim on a subject in a fully dispositive and authoritative manner. Whether that book is in the sciences or law or history does not matter. What matters is that such a book shines and leaves much of the related literature behind. You feel that having read the book its point is proven and that little else on that question needs to be told. What Bostom has done is using unimpeachable sources and fully reliable documentation he has forcefully presented the argument that those who adhere to Islam cannot live in peace and equality with other faiths and peoples. Yes, he couches this argument as being directly related to the literature of conflict between Jews and Muslims, and of that he shows there is no doubt whatsoever. But his presentation leave no question that the legally formalized hatred toward Jews and Israel is fully transferable and perhaps equally directed to our Western Civilization and tradition and that of every other civilization Western or otherwise. And he does this largely but not exclusively with the documentation of various time periods from the Islamic community and others present in the community. Keep in mind that Bostom in this book is not interested in the validity or merit of the Islamic faith. This is not an attack upon the religious choices made by those who are Muslim. It is though a clear and unassailable portrayal of the Islamic world as Islam views those non-Muslims who make up the rest of humanity. And it shows Islamic law and practice as a shadow and

Careful, Methodical, Debunking of Myths and Presentation of Important Data

"Whenever a Jew is killed, it is for the benefit of Islam." Andrew Bostom was working on a book about Islamic treatment of "dhimmis," "infidels" or non-Muslims, when he came across this quote by Sufi jurist Sirhindi (d. 1621). The virulence of this quote inspired Bostom to put his general work on Islamic treatment of dhimmis aside, for the moment, and to focus on Islamic anti-Semitism. Andrew Bostom, a medical doctor, is a careful and ethical researcher and writer. Nowawdays, there is so much political frenzy around the question of Islam, that readers often fear that they are exposed to more heat than light in best-selling books. When reading Andrew Bostom, readers need not worry that they are being spoon fed propaganda. Bostom works his way with painstaking slowness and exactitude through mountains of primary sources, and he presents that data to the reader, with full citations to original texts. Bostom uses Islam's own documents, including Islamic legal documents on Jews, and historical accounts of Jewish life in Muslim lands, to support his inevitable conclusion: from the earliest days, from the founding of Islam by Mohammed, and from Islam's central text, the Koran, anti-Semitism has been a central aspect of Islam, and any reform of this aspect of Islam will be very difficult. Bostom effectively debunks three oft-repeated Islam-apologist myths: the alleged Islamic Golden Age, that Muslims learned their anti-Semitism from Christians or the West, and that anti-Semitism arose in the Muslim world only after the recognition of the state of Israel. There was no "Islamic Golden Age" when persons of various faiths lived in peace and harmony under wise, tolerant Islamic rulers, Bostom insists. From the days of Mohammed, non-Muslims under Muslim rule were subject to taxation, humiliation, oppression, exile, and murder. Bostom devotes great energy to proving this through historical analysis. Muslims did not learn their anti-Semitism from Christianity. Muslims who had never met a Jew or a Christian brought their culturally-ingrained anti-Semitism with them into India, a largely Hindu and Buddhist sub-continent. Nor did they aquire anti-Semitism from Scientific Racism's or Nazism's racial disdain for Jews. Arabs are Semites, just as Jews are. Muslims forced Jews to wear distinctive badges more than a thousand years before Hitler did so. Christians also had to wear identifying badges under Muslim leaders. The Koran is replete with anti-Semitic verses, most notoriously, the ones equating Jews with "pigs and monkeys." There is also the hadith, or saying of Mohammed, that rocks will speak to Muslims, asking them to kill Jews. These verses are freely cited by Islamic religious leaders today, as Muslim sermons posted on youtube reveals. Mohammed, the founder of Islam, exercised murderous hostility toward Jews. It will be very difficult to discover reformers within Islam who wish to co-exist with Jews in respect and tolerance; it will be even harde

Muslims Contra Jews and Christians

On a Side Note, here is a book that may be of interest to those who are interested in reading about Buddhist Violence through the centuries (Buddhism is pretty bloody actually, despite the euphemized western version of peaceful and compassionate Buddhism) : Buddhism and Violence (Publications of the Lumbini International Research Institute, Nepal) (Publications of the Lumbini International Research Institute, Nepal). For anyone interested in history of the religion of Atheism and violence or manslaughter done by religious Atheists and atheistic killing by government please read The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur, The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization and Death by Government. Of course the vast majority of violence and killing throughout history til today has been over non-god (Atheistic) related things, like territory and resources, but here is a funky look at religious violence from a religious Atheistic perspective: Fighting Words: The Origins Of Religious Violence. Also people can look at a book that gives underlying detail of Muslim bombings in Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism as being less about God and more about mundane, non-god related issues. Conclude whatever you want on "religious violence" - however look at and compare how many people today get killed in the "name of God" with those who kill in the "name of non-God" (i.e. family, race, injustice, poverty, resources, disrespect, territory, affiliation, betrayal etc.). Atheistic manslaughter out weighs theistic manslaughter even when you read primary sources of the Crusades and the Conquest in Mexico and the Spanish Inquisition like A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095-1127 and The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources. There is usually more to violence than just the ignorant perspective : "die because you are an infidel". ----------- Andrew Bostom does humanity a great service to historians, theologians, sociologists, archeologists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims by writing this huge book. This book is a database of historical accounts (unaltered and complete) on Islamic sentiments towards Christians, but mainly Jews, throughout the centuries up to today's manifestations anti-Hebrew ideology with incredible detail. One should buy this book just to have an exhaustive history of Muslim persecutions, anti-semitic laws, punishments, stereotypes, beliefs, and even disgust of Christians and Hebrews from the primary sources and secondary sources of Islamic texts. This book lets history represent itself and allows for the historical Muslims to speak their minds and views as they originally did in their allotted time. Through this book, Historical Islam can be scrutinized and compared to Modern Islam to see if the situation between Muslims and Jews has gotten any better

Finally, the Middle East explained

Forget everything that you have ever read claiming that modern Islamic Antisemitism and Arab hatred for Israel was born of Nazi propaganda. This book will teach you the actual origin of this hatred---the teachings of Mohammed, the Islamic Caliphs who followed him, the companions and scholars who recorded the Hadith (sayings and deeds of Mohammed) and the jurists who wrote Islamic law. If you read nothing else on the Middle East or Islam this year---or ever---be sure to read this book, from cover to cover. It buries all the lies you've been reading in the mainstream press about the moderation embedded in fundamental Islam. You'll never believe those press lies again. Nor should anyone. ---Alyssa A. Lappen