Islam and the Jews
A review of Mark A. Gabriel’s book, Islam and the Jews – The Unfinished Battle, Charisma House, Florida 2003.
By Jens Tomas Anfindsen, editor, HonestThinking
Mark A. Gabriel is the controversial author of the book Islam and Terrorism, the book of which Islam-scholar Kari Vogt forbade chatting on the web-pages of the University of Oslo, but which was debated in all of Norway’s major newspapers; the book which has been distributed to all of Norway’s parliamentarians, but which only Progress Party-leader Carl I. Hagen admits to having read; the book that now has got a follow-up: Islam and the Jews.
Islam and the Jews is partly a personal story, partly a professional document. These two aspects of the book must be evaluated separately and by different criteria. On the personal level Islam and the Jews is the story about how the Egyptian ex-Muslim Mark Gabriel changed attitude from being a vehement Jew-hater, to feeling friendship and sympathy towards the Jewish people. According to Mr. Gabriel himself, this change of heart came about by Jesus Christ performing a miracle within him so that hatred yielded place for love. This aspect of his book must be taken for precisely what it is: a personal testimony. On the professional level Islam and the Jews is an introduction to the Koran’s and the Hadiths’s teachings with respect to the status of the Jews, written by a former Imam and professor of Islamic history at the Al Azhar University in Cairo. The scheme to which Mr. Gabriel presents us is roughly the following.
The Koran consists of a series of revelations which the angel Gabriel supposedly granted the Prophet Mohammed. These revelations came progressively over a period from A.D. 610 and until Mohammed’s death in 632. In an early phase, while Mohammed lived in
With regard to the latter, Mr. Gabriel dedicates a separate chapter to a purely historical account of how Mohammed and his armed forces performed several genocidal slaughters of Jewish tribes in
An important feature of Gabriel’s exposition concerns a widely acknowledge principle of Islamic theology called nasikh. Basically put, the principle of nasikh entails that whenever two pieces revelatory text contradict each other, the later revelations carry juristic overweight. So later verses will sometimes annul or cancel prior ones. With regard to the Koran’s revelations about the Jews, Gabriel explains that the early, accommodating verses are annulled by later verses in which Allah ventilates heavy curses on the entire Jewish people. The Koran’s last word on the matter is that Jews are eternal enemies of Islam, and that they must be violently fought and subjugated. Gabriel further explains how an influential hadith by al-Bukhari adds to this picture, relaying that judgment day will not come before the Muslims exterminate the Jews entirely!
It appears that Mr. Gabriel knows well what he is writing about. Anyone trained in textual interpretation will recognize an expert at work, here. The crucial question concerning his book is whether it can be said to present the reader with a true picture of Islam. Evaluating this requires a complex assessment.
According to Mr. Gabriel, Islam imposes on all Muslims to wage war against the Jews. But we all know that not all Muslims support that idea. However, Mr. Gabriel himself is the first to point out that only a minority of the Muslims understand and practice Islam in this radical manner. Gabriel explains this by recourse to a threefold socio-religious distinction. The majority of Muslims he describes as some kind of “cultural Muslims”, lacking any particularly deep understanding of Islam. These hold on to the more humanitarian and sympathetic aspects of their religion, but remain ignorant of or suppress its aggressive elements. Secondly there is also a large group of Muslims which in fact have insight into the Jihad-theology of Islam, but who nevertheless refrain from practicing their beliefs fully, simply because acting them out would require too much sacrifice. Finally we have a numerically small but in no way insignificant group of enthusiastic fundamentalists who have real insight into the theological foundation of Islam, as well as the will to implement its directives. It is within this last group that we find the extremist, the suicide bomber, the terrorist and the jihadist.
According to Mr. Gabriel, it is this last mentioned group that practices Islam in a correct way. Radical Islamism is the true Islam, so says Mr. Gabriel. Here is where we confront the most daring thesis of the book, and at the same time, a vulnerable point. For what is “the True Islam”, who defines “the True Islam” and is there only one correct interpretation of this religion, one might object. In the assumption that there exists some one absolute Islam, might not Mr. Gabriel have committed an oversimplification?
I think not. What Mr. Gabriel says about the nature of Islam is not intended as a sociological description of its manifold manifestations; Mr. Gabriel takes on a theologian’s perspective and aims at a normative description of Islam’s teachings. Further, it should be kept in mind that Mr. Gabriel comes from and deals with Sunni-Islam. The Sunnis represent only one fraction within Islam, but after all, they constitute about 85% of the world’s Muslims. Finally, Mr. Gabriel has written a popular science book, targeting a wide segment of a public market which could not be presumed to have much prior knowledge of Islam. The fact that the book might be said to gloss over certain (academically celebrated) nuances and distinctions in no way justifies its rejection. A rational evaluation of the book’s basic thesis should rest upon an assessment of whether it corresponds to a dominant interpretation of Sunni-Muslim theology with respect to Jews. And in that respect, Mr. Gabriel has presented his case with powerful precision.
Given the loudly explicit way in which anti-Jewish theology permeates the modern Islamist movement, Islam and the Jews is not only interesting, but also highly currant. The book is way too convincing and way too challenging to be silenced or ignored, irrespective of the fact that Mr. Gabriel is an “on-fire” convert to Christianity or that his book presents a horrific picture of Islam’s prime sources. The scholarly content of Islam and the Jews concerns claims over matters of fact and can be discussed, rejected or vindicated as such. The evaluation of the undersigned says that potential critics face a difficult mission(*).
The following are excerpts taken from Mark A. Gabriel's book ""THE UNFINISHED BATTLE BETWEEN ISLAM & JEWS".
"First, in this chapter you will learn 2 keys beliefs that keep Muslims in a never ending conflict with the State of Israel. They are:
1) A belief that the land belongs to Islam and 2) A belief that the holy mosque in Jerusalem must be kept pure.
Then you will see the inevitable result of these beliefs:
1) No peace negotiations is acceptable.
2) Israel as a nation must be destroyed.
From the Muslim point of view, the land of present day Israel does not belong to any group pf people-it belongs to Islam. Therefore, when the Jewish people declared the rebirth of the nation of Israel, it was an affront to every Islamic country because it took the land away from Islam.
The groups that are fighting against Israel and her allies express this point of view very clearly. Hamas(the Palestinians current governing body), the largest most active Jihadist group fighting in Israel has a 36 page article covenant that outlines it's position against Israel. Here are some excerpts:
"The land of Palestine(Israel) is an Islamic Waqf consecrecated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. No one can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it Article 11.
Palestine is an Islamic land....since that is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem whereever he may be Article 13. (excerpts taken from pages 149-150).
In 2000, the Islamic Assembly of North America published a booklet titled No for Normalization, written by a Moslem scholar. He gave a similair picture of the Muslim view(FALLACIES) of land rights:
" THE JEWS CAME AND ATTACKED THIS LAND AND STOLE IT, AND THIS WILL NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT THIS LAND IS MUSLIM, AND IT WILL REMAIN THAT WAY FOREVER. IF WE AREN'T ABLE TO LIBERATE THIS LAND TODAY FROM THE JEWS, THIS DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN GIVE IT UP. WE HAVE TO WORK UNTIL THE TIME COMES, AND THEN WE WILL BRING IT BACK TO THE ISLAMIC WORLD" (page 151).
NEGOTIATION IS NOT ACCEPTABLE
Western powers are trying to get Palestinians & Jews to sit down at the negotiating table all the time. However, from the Muslim point of view, no negotiation is acceptable.
"We do not accept these agreements with the Jews because if we accept them, IT WILL TAKE US AWAY FROM THE PRACTICE OF JIHAD, WHICH IS THE HIGHEST CALLING OF OUR FAITH! We cannot stop our animosity against the Jews because we are commanded by the Quranic verses to continue hating the Jews and believing that they are the worst enemies of ours until the end of time".
ELIMINATION OF ISRAEL
"I HAVE BROUGHT SLAUGHTER UPON YOU. YES, THE SOLUTION FOR YOU IS NOT PEACE OR HARMONY. JIHAD, NOT PEACE IS THE SOLUTION". (FROM FALSE PROPHET MUHAMMED TO THE JEWS).
The only acceptable solution, from the Muslim point of view, is to eliminate Israel. As the Covenant of Hamas states:
"THE ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IS A DISTINGUISHED PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT (emphasis added) whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine(Israel)" Article 6.
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam obliterates it, just as it obliterated others before it"-Preamble to the Covenant of Hamas. ( excerpts taken from pages 155-156).
Some final remarks:
Dear viewer: The video presented above by this NYU student is a BLATANT FALSE NARRATIVE filled with fallacies. I have provided just a few samples from Dr. Mark A. Gabriel's book of the hidden agenda behind the Palestinian's movement & Islam's hidden agenda to destroy Israel along with it's beloved people the JEWS. Israel has a God given right to exist as a free nation. NO ONE ON THIS EARTH HAS A RIGHT TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM THEM! Israel did not start this war. Hamas along with their insatiable hatred toward Jews started this mess. And yes, war has it's consequences on both sides. Innocent people unfortunately are dying in Gaza & in Israel. But Israel has a God given right to defend themselves. They are not involved on a GENOCIDE MISSION. Any person including Palestinians who makes those claims are DELUSIONAL and they are LYING!
THE COMING
FINAL CRUSADE
REVELATION 19: 11-21
A FINAL WORD TO THE JIHADIST: REMEMBER THIS; YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, MORE THAN WHAT YOU SOW, AND LATER THAN WHAT YOU SOW. And if you think that my words are a bunch of MALARKEY, wait until you come face to face with an angry God on judgment day to hear him pronounce his final verdict upon your soul and where you will spend an eternity for being the MODERN DAY NAZIS OF THE 21ST CENTURY against God's Chosen People(Jews). AND YOU BETTER
LIKE HEAT BECAUSE IT'S MIGHTY HOT
WHERE YOU ARE GOING. AND YOU WON'T BEING SEEING ANY VIRGINS WELCOMING YOU IN PARADISE!
A FINAL MESSAGE FROM
MOHAMMED TO MUSLIMS
IN VIDEO BELOW DR. DAVID REGAN
INTERVIEWS DR. MARK A. GABRIEL
ABOUT ISLAM
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