THE LEGACY OF
ISLAMIC ANTISEMITISM: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History
Interview Questions
1. Why is your book relevant today?
2. Why did you focus on Islam and Antisemitism?
3. Does your book discuss the legacy of Antisemitism in other religions?
4. What solutions do you propose for the
problems you highlight in your book?
5. Talk about the significance of the
striking cover art on the book jacket .
6. You
are a medical doctor, professor of medicine, and established medical
researcher. How did you get so interested in Islam that you became a
prolific writer on the topic?
Talking
Points
1.
Islamic Antisemitism is rooted in Islam’s
foundational texts (in particular, the Koran), and the behaviors of the Muslim
prophet Muhammad, as expressed since the advent of the creed. This phenomenon is not a European import
which dates only from the Western colonization of Islamic countries in the 19th
and 20th centuries.
2. Some of the major, specific Antisemitic motifs in
the Koran, the Hadith (words, deeds, and even
unspoken gestures of Muhammad, as putatively recorded by Muhammad’s companions,
and recorded in canonical collections by pious Muslim compilers ), and the Sira (the earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad).
3. To understand how these Antisemitic motifs have
been expressed in Muslim societies, across space and time, continually, from
Muhammad’s era, through the present.
4. To understand how the uniquely Islamic institution of jihad war, the concept
of a permanent subjugated status for all non-Muslims vanquished by jihad (i.e.,
“dhimmitude”), including Jews, and specific Antisemitic motifs in Islamic theology, especially Islamic
eschatology (“end of times” beliefs) operate in tandem with regard to the
annihilationist Muslim Jew-hatred directed at the Jews of Israel.
About
the Author
Andrew G. Bostom, M.D., M.S. (
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