Before concluding this
discussion,
we must
deal here with the
issue
of
“Anti-Semitism”. All attempts to
criticize the Jews as the root cause
of
most of the troubles being faced by Christians and Muslims are, as a matter
of routine, rejected and brushed aside as nothing
more than signs of an irrational hatred of the Jews. In this context,
we want to make the following point very
clear:
Muslims have
no malice
against any particular race.
We do
not want to destroy any particular nation or
the
adherents of any particular religion.
All we wish to do
is
to exterminate
the menace of exploitation.
We believe that greed, corruption, and immorality
are spiritual diseases,
irrespective
of where
they are found.
Our
struggle is against the illnesses,
not
against the sick.
Moreover, there is a world of difference between
the animosity and
dislike which results
from
prejudice and
lack
of knowledge, and the animosity
and dislike
which ensues from understanding
and experience.
Jews
have been hated through most of their history; is it logical to believe
that this long-standing and almost universal hatred was,
and is, without any reasonable cause whatsoever? Isn’t it good advice that the Jews, instead of continuing
to blame some mysterious
“Anti-Semitism”, should
carefully examine their own history and attitude
in order to find
the reason for their universal “unpopularity”?
Maryam Jameela, a former Jew, has explained the whole phenomenon as follows:
A
people
who insist against all objective
evidence to the
contrary in regarding
themselves as the Chosen People of God, who
consider themselves innately superior [over] all
other peoples; who owe their loyalty primarily to
each other and never to the country of their birth; and who,
while they may practice the
most exemplary morality among themselves, feel
no such obligations to the
despised “illiterate Gentiles” and do their best to corrupt others
though their stranglehold
over the liquor business, usury, etc., and, while they fervently
maintain
that Judaism is the only true faith, rigorously
exclude outsiders… How can
such conceit, pride and
exclusiveness not fail to
arouse against them the bitterest
hatred? On top of all that, there
is the exceptional intelligence,
cleverness and ability of the Jews to
snatch the first opportunity
to attain the maximum
power and wealth at the expense of
others which
makes them feared as well
as hated…. They have never outgrown their tribal
mentality.
According to this
outlook, a man owes his loyalty
only to his tribe and clan.
All non-members of the tribe are outcasts and he is not held responsible
or
accountable for his conduct towards them. Within
the
tribe, his character and behavior
may appear most exemplary but once
outside the tribe, he can
turn
to piracy, robbery and murder without suffering from the least qualms of conscience.
(Islam Versus Ahl al-kitab: Past and Present; p.192, 193)
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