{"id":3589,"date":"2008-07-29T08:32:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2008-07-29T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T20:36:58","slug":"exhausted-by-islamic-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3589","title":{"rendered":"Exhausted By Islamic Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leon Cohen writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Most useful will be “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History” <\/strong>written and edited by Andrew G. Bostom (Prometheus Books, $39.95).<\/p>\n

Bostom’s book is both exhaustive and exhausting, a tome of some 766 tall pages with small print. Clearly he intended it to be a reference work.<\/p>\n

Bostom’s almost 200-page first chapter, “A Survey of Its [i.e., Islamic anti-Semitism’s] Theological-Juridical Origins and Historical Manifestations,” is oppressive reading, and not only because of its grim and depressing content.<\/p>\n

The text is dryly written and poorly organized. Reading it is like trying to read an encyclopedia. Readers seeking a clear and easy-to-read summary of the subject are advised to examine instead the chapter “Islamic Antisemitism” in the Dennis Prager and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin book “Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism.”<\/p>\n

But as a reference tool, Bostom’s book is overwhelmingly successful. His own chapter marshals quotations and documentation – bolstered by nearly 1,000 footnotes – that should remove all doubt about how central anti-Semitism has been and still is to Islam and to the civilization built around it.<\/p>\n

And if that isn’t enough, the rest of the book is an anthology of sources and documents that clinch the case. Bostom provides:<\/p>\n

• Anti-Semitic passages from the Koran, the hadith (collected anecdotes about the Muslim prophet Mohammed’s life), the sira (early biographies of Mohammed).<\/p>\n

• Anti-Semitic essays, speeches and excerpted book passages by Muslim scholars, theologians and thinkers from the Middle Ages to the present.<\/p>\n

• Scholarly, witness and journalistic accounts of Muslim persecutions of and discrimination against Jews over more than 1,000 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I caught Dr. Bostom lecturing on his book a few weeks ago<\/a>. His public speaking style, or lack of it, is every bit as oppressive as his book. During question-time however, when he stopped reading his speech and started speaking extemporaneously, he sounded almost human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leon Cohen writes: Most useful will be “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History” written and edited by Andrew G. Bostom (Prometheus Books, $39.95). Bostom’s book is both exhaustive and exhausting, a tome of some 766 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[10767,29761,10769,10768,4512,10770],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","tag-book-passages","tag-dennis-prager","tag-prometheus-books","tag-prophet-mohammed","tag-rabbi-joseph-telushkin","tag-tall-pages"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t