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Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Did Mohammed
invent profiling?
By Ilana Mercer
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� 2002 Ilana Mercer
When it comes to the sensitive topic of profiling, Muslims,
historically, were innovators in their own right. The Nazis were not
the originators of the yellow cloth with which they tagged Jews. The
odious tagging rag has its origins in the laws of the Charter of Omar
� a set of vicious anti-infidel rules that were applied to Jews with
extra vim. These laws were introduced by the caliph who succeeded the
prophet Mohammed.
Prior to the prophet, Jews and Arabs did indeed live in relative
harmony, but when Mohammed failed to convert the Jews to Islam, our
proselytizing prophet of peace exterminated at least one Jewish
tribe, etched the Holy Koran with anti-Jewish vitriol, and launched
centuries of brutality against Jews. Arabs also preceded the Nazis by
centuries with that dubious dwelling demarcator, the Jewish ghetto,
known in Arabic as the hara or mella.
Following the Arab conquest in the 7th century, Jewish life in the
Islamic world became fraught with massacres, blood libel and plunder.
Synagogues were regularly torn down, and Jews were impelled to pay
special head and
property taxes. Meticulously sourced authoritative accounts of Jewish travails over
the centuries under Islam are detailed in Joan Peters' seminal work, "From Time
Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over
Palestine." These reveal a population subject to the whim of the particular Muslim
ruler, and the degree to which he was committed to implementing the anti-infidel laws
of the Holy Koran and the Charter of Omar. Under Isl
amic religious law, for instance, if a Muslim murdered an infidel, he was liable only
for a fine. But even this "blood money" was rarely forthcoming, because the testimony
of an infidel was invalid against a Muslim.
In the land that was once Babylonia, the Jews of Iraq weathered the grim vicissitude
of a daily life bereft of rights and filled with indignities. Some particularly
murderous landmarks stand out: the A.D. 1000 expropriati
on of Jewish property, the 1333 destruction of their synagogues, and the 1776 Basra
slaughter, leading up to mob killings in 1941, and numerous public- square hangings
between 1969 and 1973.
The chronicles of Jewish life over the centuries in Aden, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco,
Syria and Libya are similarly marred. As one 19th-century observer recounted, the
ancient community of Yemenite Jews was "in a position
of inferiority, and is oppressed by a people which declares itself holy and pious but
which is very brutal, barbarous and hard-hearted." Of particular note is the murder in
1032 of thousands of Jews in Fez, Morocco, follo
wed, in 1146, by the Almohad atrocities in which hundreds of thousands of Jews and
Christians were massacred by the Muslim Almohads.
As Palestinian and Arab propaganda would have it, the Muslim's hate for the Jew is a
contemporary phenomenon, caused entirely by the tiny "Zionist state." While the
contempt for the dhimmi, as the Jew was derogatorily ter
med, has morphed over the years � drawing on "traditional Koranic slurs," as well as
gathering vintage Nazi debris along the way � the hate boasts a pure Islamic pedigree.
"In 1940, the mufti (a kind of rabbi) of Jerusalem wrote to the Axis powers requesting
the right of the Arabs to settle the question of the Jews along similar lines to those
used to solve the Jewish question in Germany an
d Italy." Egyptian Minister Anwar Sadat's touch was somewhat comical. In 1950, Sadat,
who may have confused Hitler for Houdini, published an open "Dear Adolph" letter,
commending Hitler for "saving the world from this mal
ignant evil."
The kind of warning to the Syrian public in 1964 by a "scholar" from the University of
Damascus, to refrain from "letting your children out at night, lest the Jew come and
take their blood for the purpose of making matzot
for Passover," is still very much within the realm of respected political and
intellectual discourse throughout the Arab world. (Incidentally, my mother's matzo
balls are nowhere near that labor intensive.) A czarist can
ard and fraud like "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" has been adopted as Arab
lore. Last year, U.N.-funded Muslim pamphleteers handed out "The Protocols" at the
"anti-racist" conference in Durban. The charge that Jews
are taking over the world joins the deicide charge, and the denial � and
justification � of the Holocaust, among Saudis, Egyptians, Palestinian � you name it.
Before Arab leaders realized they had won the propaganda war and could relax, they had
frenetically and cunningly been extending specious invites for Arab Jews to return to
their homelands. You see, the 1.5 million Jewish
refugees from Arab lands could have become a considerable obstacle to the Palestinian
propaganda machine had Israel been as conniving as her enemies. Imagine the kind of
trump card Israel could have wielded had she, like
her uncivilized neighbors, kept these legitimate Jewish refugees in camps, refused to
settle them, fomented hate among them for the Arab, and turned the fugitives into
political pawns � as Arab nations have so masterfull
y done to their so-called refugees.
In 1976, these Jewish refugees, represented by the American Sephardi Federation,
responded to the wickedly cynical invites with a full-page advertisement in the New
York Times. The ad entailed a news service photo that sh
owed a mob of Iraqi onlookers surrounding two bodies suspended from a scaffold. The
dangling bodies were those of Sabam Haim, and David Hazaquil, both Jews, hung in
Baghdad.
Beneath the photograph the organization responded: "INVITATION DECLINED."
The rest is history. The barbarians, I'm afraid, prevailed.
Ilana Mercer is a freelance writer. Please visit her web-page to
learn more about her work.
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