At a time when most western Orientalist took Muhammad for scheming imposter, equated Islam with fanatiscism, thought that the Quran was a crude and incoherent text, and believed that the Arabs were incapable of abstract thought, a growing number of Jewish scholars often took opposite positions. They accepted the sincerity of Muhammads mission, described Arabs as Jews on horseback and Islam as evolving faith that was more democratic than other religions and debunked Orientalists claims about a static Islam and a dynamic West. It appears that these Jews were anti-Orientalists long before Edward Said (a Christian Orientalist), - Professor M. Shahid Alam, Norteastern University, Boston.
When the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) emigrated to Yasrib (Medinah) in 623 CE - he expected the Banu Israel tribes of the area to accept him the prophet mentioned in the Torah - but the Rabbis (Resh Galut) were expecting The Promised One to be descendent of prophet Isac and not that of prophet Ishmail. The powerful tribal chiefs of Banu Mustaliq and Banu Nadir - even after admitting in privacy that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the one the Banu Israel have been waiting for - not only tried to kill him on several occasions - but also helped the enemies of the new faith to eradicate it from Arabia.
However, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) did not take revenge from the families of those criminal leaders or the ordinary members of those tribes. To show his tolerance and mercy toward these tribes - the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) married Barra (Juwayriyya) bint al-Harith 20, daughter of al-Harith, Chief of Banu Mustaliq in 628 CE. The Prophet (pbuh) also married widowed daughter of Huyayy ibn Akhtab, Chief of Banu Nadir - Safiyya bint Huyayy 17, in 630 CE after the Yahud tribes were defeated in the battle of Khaybar. Safiyya was the direct descendent of prophet Harun (as), the brother of prophet Moses (as).
After centuries of persecution at the hands of Greeks, Romans and Christian Byzantine - the Jews, for the first time, were able to develop their Hebrew language and culture and enter into the circle of power - becoming ministers, advisers, and physians to the Khalifahs. It was under Muslim rule that Hebrew got its first grammer, and the Torah its most highly developed Jurisdiction. Hebrew found its first philosopher, Musa ibn Maymun - and its first mystical thinker, Ibn Gabirol. Cordobas ruler al-Rahman III, appointed a Jew by the name Hasdai ben Shapirut, his prime minister.
Rabbi Gottlieb, one of the first ten women rabbis in the history of Judaism - visited Islamic Iran in May 2008. She was interviewed by Iranian daily Tehran Times in which she said:
Its important to remember that Islamic world has sheltered the Jewish people throughout our long history For the last 41 years I have been working constantly on raising up, in my own community and in the Christian community in the United States, the desire of Palestinians for national sovereignty in their own land - and calling for an end to Israels military occupation of Palestine as the only way that will allow peaceful negotiations and settlement between our peoples.
The Jew-hating has been part of the Christian Wests culture for many centuries. It only entered the Muslim world when Europes unwanted Jews began emigrating to British occupied Palestine in the 1930s. The past history tells us that while Jewish communities were expelled from almost every European Christian country - such thing never happened in Muslim countries untill the creation of Zionist entity in 1948.
Furthermore, Jew-hating is not anti-Semitism - as the great majority of Jews are not Semites (Israelites), but Asiatic Turks, who converted to Judaism during the 10th century. There are 100- times more Semite people among the Arabs than the in the entire world Jewry of 13.5 million. Anti-Semitism, like Jewish Holocaust - is used by Zionists to silence any criticism of illegal Jewish occupation of Arab Palestine or the anti-Judiac Zionism. If one study the writing of Zionist leaders like Theodor Herzl, Ben Gurion, Lenni Brenner, Chaim Kaplan, Chaim Weizmann, Ari Shavat, Abba Eban, Kaufman, and many others - one will find more anti-Semitism in them than all the so-called Islamists put together.
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When the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) emigrated to Yasrib (Medinah) in 623 CE - he expected the Banu Israel tribes of the area to accept him the prophet mentioned in the Torah - but the Rabbis (Resh Galut) were expecting The Promised One to be descendent of prophet Isac and not that of prophet Ishmail. The powerful tribal chiefs of Banu Mustaliq and Banu Nadir - even after admitting in privacy that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the one the Banu Israel have been waiting for - not only tried to kill him on several occasions - but also helped the enemies of the new faith to eradicate it from Arabia.
However, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) did not take revenge from the families of those criminal leaders or the ordinary members of those tribes. To show his tolerance and mercy toward these tribes - the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) married Barra (Juwayriyya) bint al-Harith 20, daughter of al-Harith, Chief of Banu Mustaliq in 628 CE. The Prophet (pbuh) also married widowed daughter of Huyayy ibn Akhtab, Chief of Banu Nadir - Safiyya bint Huyayy 17, in 630 CE after the Yahud tribes were defeated in the battle of Khaybar. Safiyya was the direct descendent of prophet Harun (as), the brother of prophet Moses (as).
After centuries of persecution at the hands of Greeks, Romans and Christian Byzantine - the Jews, for the first time, were able to develop their Hebrew language and culture and enter into the circle of power - becoming ministers, advisers, and physians to the Khalifahs. It was under Muslim rule that Hebrew got its first grammer, and the Torah its most highly developed Jurisdiction. Hebrew found its first philosopher, Musa ibn Maymun - and its first mystical thinker, Ibn Gabirol. Cordobas ruler al-Rahman III, appointed a Jew by the name Hasdai ben Shapirut, his prime minister.
Rabbi Gottlieb, one of the first ten women rabbis in the history of Judaism - visited Islamic Iran in May 2008. She was interviewed by Iranian daily Tehran Times in which she said:
Its important to remember that Islamic world has sheltered the Jewish people throughout our long history For the last 41 years I have been working constantly on raising up, in my own community and in the Christian community in the United States, the desire of Palestinians for national sovereignty in their own land - and calling for an end to Israels military occupation of Palestine as the only way that will allow peaceful negotiations and settlement between our peoples.
The Jew-hating has been part of the Christian Wests culture for many centuries. It only entered the Muslim world when Europes unwanted Jews began emigrating to British occupied Palestine in the 1930s. The past history tells us that while Jewish communities were expelled from almost every European Christian country - such thing never happened in Muslim countries untill the creation of Zionist entity in 1948.
Furthermore, Jew-hating is not anti-Semitism - as the great majority of Jews are not Semites (Israelites), but Asiatic Turks, who converted to Judaism during the 10th century. There are 100- times more Semite people among the Arabs than the in the entire world Jewry of 13.5 million. Anti-Semitism, like Jewish Holocaust - is used by Zionists to silence any criticism of illegal Jewish occupation of Arab Palestine or the anti-Judiac Zionism. If one study the writing of Zionist leaders like Theodor Herzl, Ben Gurion, Lenni Brenner, Chaim Kaplan, Chaim Weizmann, Ari Shavat, Abba Eban, Kaufman, and many others - one will find more anti-Semitism in them than all the so-called Islamists put together.
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