I read a post over on Umar's blog in which he stated "If there is a fundamental truth about the Jewish religion it is a respect for human life". Pah! I thought. He obviously doesn't know what I know. He hasn't been around long enough to read those Quotes from the Talmud on how superior these Jews think they are above non-Jews.
All the same, i thought i'd better check out these quotes before i reply to Umar's post. While it was easy to find this same "Quotes from the Talmud" article all over the web (found on numerous Muslim sites too) it was very hard to find an online Talmudic resource which i could use to check the references. But then i finally found one.
I started off with this quote, according to the article, found in Baba Mezia 114b. "The Jews are called human beings, but the non-Jews are not humans. They are beasts."
Hmm... i thought, i can't find that anywhere here.
Nevermind, could be a simple mistake; onto the next one: "Sexual intercourse between Gentiles is like intercourse between animals" in Sanhedrin 74b.
Again searching through the text, i found nothing that even remotely sounded like the above.
Then thankfully, i stumbled across a thorough refutation of the entire "Quotes from the Talmud" article which exposed it as full of wildly inaccurate translations, gross twisting of the meaning of the text, and just pure & simple fabrication of Talmudic passages.
My end feeling is one of embarrassment - because until today i'd actually believed these quotes to be true Jewish/Talmudic teachings. But alhumdulillah, better that i learned i was mistaken today rather than never.
The embarrassment was compounded afterwards when i realised that you could find this article on Muslim sites. Where is the research from Muslims before sticking this stuff online? Verifying the authenticity of what we communicate to others is not only part of our religious heritage (the isnad/chain of narration) but it is also a command from Allah:
"O you who believe! if an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it, lest you harm a people in ignorance, then be sorry for what you have done." al-Qur'an 49:6
Monday, August 21, 2006
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Asalaam alaikum,
A-list blogs? *shakes head* Britishers and their class system, tsk, tsk, tsk. I'm going to be in Malaysia for a couple of weeks then at the end of the year go to Saudi.
wasalaam,
Arshad
Arshad, good to hear from you! :) Hope all is well.
Everyone is going to Malaysia these days - have i missed something?
Nice points bro
Jazakallah khair for this.
I have never understood not doing proper research before quoting a source or accepting something as fact. That is just a basic principle of scholarship but I suppose we are living in times where poverty of intellect is rampant.
Sad that Muslims have stooped so low.
Law student, why the surprise? This is only one of a myriad of problems that Muslims are plagued with.
nice post. i think moving past all the lies is the much needed step in many conversations going on right now.
There is a book called Judaism's strange Gods by Michael A. Hoffman where you can find many of the hateful scripture in Judaism. He includes footnotes and many of his quotes come from Jewish sources.
There is another book written by an Israeli Jew that discusses the negative aspects of Judaism. The book is called Jewish History, Jewish Religion by Israel Shahak. On page 24 of the book he writes
In 1962, a part of the Maimonidean Code ...the so-called Book of Knowledge, which contains the most basic rules of Jewish faith and practice, was published in Jerusalem in a bilingual edition, with the English translation facing the Hebrew text. The latter has been restored to its original purity, and the command to exterminate Jewish infidels appears in it in full: 'It is a duty to exterminate them with one's own hands.' IN the English translation this is somewhat softened to: 'It is a duty to take active measures to destroy them.' But then the Hebrew text goes on to specify the prime examples of ‘infidels’ who must be exterminated: 'Such as Jesus of Nazareth and his pupils, and Tzadoq and Baitos and their pupils, may the name of the wicked rot.’ Not one word of this appears in the English text on the facing page
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