Tuesday, September 05, 2023
Elder of Ziyon
Recently, a new website has been indexed on Google News, called Sinai Arabia.
But Israel may not be cursed - because it was the name of Jacob, who is a revered prophet, and one may not curse the name of a prophet even if it is also the name of a hated Jewish state!
It is not a very professional site and it really doesn't cover news, rather items of interest to the Arab Muslim reader.
I cannot tell what country it comes from. My best guess is Egypt.
A lot of its stories are about Jews, many of them antisemitic but written in a matter of fact way rather than with rancor. So it will discuss things like how the final battle between Muslims and Jews will happen, or how the Rothschild family controls 80% of the world's wealth.
Today, it describes Islamic law on cursing of Jews and Israel. And according to this article, it is perfectly allowed for a Muslim to curse Jews, but not to curse Israel!
Cursing Jews (or Christians) is allowed since they are unbelievers. Allah cursed the Jews in the Quran because of their disobedience to Allah and their supposed attacks on and hatred of prophets.
But Israel may not be cursed - because it was the name of Jacob, who is a revered prophet, and one may not curse the name of a prophet even if it is also the name of a hated Jewish state!
If this article is accurate, then from the perspective of cursing, the Muslim attitude is that it really is antisemitism, not "anti-Zionism." And by any religious yardstick, hating Jews is the reason for hating Israel - not the other way around.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Houthi slogan says "Curse the Jews" but only "Death to Israel."
