GWXP
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Sayyid Qutb was a Great Muslim Philosopher and Intellectual.
...Before the mid-20th century, antisemitism among Arabs was imported. The 1840 Damascus Affair blood libel was eagerly pushed by French Catholic antisemites and was a precursor to other blood libels in the Arab world in later decades. It was profoundly influential in introducing European-style antisemitism to the Middle East.
Arab nationalism that grew in the late 19th century was in no small part a reaction to Zionism. It was followed by Arab socialism, as Marx' theories started to spread, mostly starting with Arab Christians.
But the first truly home-grown Muslim antisemitism was popularized by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and mostly through one man: Sayyid Qutb.
Qutb created an entirely new history of Islam that is centered around antisemitism and an anti-Jewish conspiracy theory. He dates the beginnings of Islam itself to 622 CE, not the more normally accepted 610 CE, because 622 is when Mohammed started looking at Jews as rivals and no longer potential partners. In Qutb's telling, 622 is when Jews started to wage an existential war against Islam that has never ended and will never end until the Jews themselves are eliminated. In his words, "this is an enduring war that will never end, because the Jews want no more no less than to exterminate the religion of Islam ... Since Islam subdued them (in Medina) they are unforgiving and fight furiously through conspiracies, intrigues, and also through proxies who act in the darkness against all what Islam incorporates."
This cosmic war according to Qutb, has gone on century after century:
I often see mainstream Arabic media describing the "character" of the Jews, as murderers, cheaters, liars and aggressive. This all comes from Qutb (although some of his antisemitic theories seem to come from the Mufti of Jerusalem.)
The only Western antisemitic ideas that Qutb didn't try to Islamicize were the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which he adopted in his theories. But everything else was his own home-grown antisemitic philosophy, which also regards America as a proxy for Jews.
This is the worldview of Al Qaeda, of ISIS, of Hamas. Qutb is considered a seminal thinker for them, who was followed by Sheikh Yussuf Qaradawi.
Qutb’s innovation was not to borrow European antisemitism whole cloth as the previous versions did, but to rewrite Islam itself as a cosmic struggle with Jews. In doing so, he gave Islamists a philosophy that structurally requires Jewish disappearance. This is precisely what my larger thesis predicts: whenever a malign worldview senses Judaism as an existential threat, antisemitism is not an accident but an organizing principle. Qutb shows how that principle was Islamicized, and why Islamism cannot make peace with Jewish existence.
(Thanks to this great 2010 paper by Bassam Tibi)
European anti-semitism was based on irrational xenophobia and misguided racism of Europeans.
Muslim anti-semitism is a reaction to countless atrocities and crimes commited against Muslims by genocidical white, blond illegal Jewish migrants from Europe.
If there is no apartheid, injustice, human rights violations, ethnic cleansing and genocide against innocent women and children in Palestine - there would have been no any anti-semitism in the Muslim World. In fact, prior to creation of Israel, Jews lived peacefully among Muslims for centuries.
And stop applying Western standards to the Muslim World and talking about anti-semitism as if it is something bad or criminal.
In the end we are not Europeans who get you in prison for up to 7 years if you insult Jews, but who say that insulting Islam and Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) is freedom of speech.
In Germany and USA you can use the word anti-semite as an insult. But in the Muslim world the word anti-semite is actually a compliment.
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️Netanyahu sets a deadline for Macron & accuses him of "fueling anti-Semitic fire" in France by calling for international recognition of the State of Palestine, according to an official letter addressed to the French head of state. — AFP
