Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't by Robert Spencer

Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9781596985155
Amazon: 1596985151
Barnesnoble: 1596985151
Goodreads: 648343
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2007-07-16T22:00:00+00:00

CHRISTIAN ANTI-SEMITISM, MUSLIM ANTI-SEMITISM

Anti-Semitism in the Islamic world has often been attributed to the baneful influence of Christianity. Many analysts assert that the Islamic designation of Jews (as well as Christians) as “People of the Book” indicates a higher level of respect for them than was manifested by Christians who derided Jews as bestial “Christ-killers.” Journalist Lawrence Wright asserts in this vein in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11:

Until the end of World War II…Jews lived safely—although submissively—under Muslim rule for 1,200 years, enjoying full religious freedom; but in the 1930s, Nazi propaganda on Arabic-language shortwave radio, coupled with slanders by Christian missionaries in the region, infected the area with this ancient Western prejudice anti-Semitism]. After the war, Cairo became a sanctuary for Nazis, who advised the military and the government. The rise of the Islamist movement coincided with the decline of fascism, but they overlapped in Egypt, and the germ passed into a new carrier.80

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