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Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History | 
| Creator: Andrew G. Bostom
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 766
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.4 x 2.1
ISBN: 1591025540
Dewey Decimal Number: 297.282
EAN: 9781591025542
ASIN: 1591025540
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Sombre But Important Reading June 3, 2008
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Andrew Bostom's "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism" has been written to refute two common misconceptions:
1) That Islamic antisemitism actually does not exist
2) That if it does exist, it was only borrowed from Christian Europe or the Nazis and is not intrinsic to Islam.
Bostom refutes these myths brilliantly and with incredible research and documentation. This is a huge tome - both in terms of physical size and in its significance for the world. It becomes quite depressing to read - one can only take so much hatred, murder, oppression and expulsion - but it is also VITAL that we read it. In the current climate, knowing about all this is the only way to avert a second Holocaust.
The first section is an introduction of about 140 pages by Bostom which essentially summarises all the evidence for Islamic antisemitism, detailing the anti-Jewish motifs in Islamic sacred texts, particularly the Qur'an, as well as their historical manifestations. The next few sections simply reproduce the full texts from the Qur'an, hadith and sira.
There are then two sections devoted to reprinting primary sources from Muslim scholars and writers of the modern and premodern age - including Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the current Muslim equivalent of the Pope - which again can be depressing. You are simply exposed to page after page of unadulterated hatred and wild conspiracy theories in which every bad thing that has ever happened in the world is attributed to the Jews. The Muslim historian Tabari, for instance, was convinced that the entire Sunni-Shiite divide was invented by Jews as part of a grand conspiracy to destroy Islam.
The next section is a series of essays on the modern and historical condition of Jewish populations around the world. Contributors include Bostom himself and Bat Ye'or, the pioneering historian of Islam and dhimmitude.
The final section is a series of historical and primary source documents detailing the plight of Jews from early Islam to today. The very last chapter - Chapter 69! - is perhaps the most important of all: it is simply a collection of quotes from Muslim leaders around the world in which they call for the physical annihilation of not only Israel, but the entire Jewish population of the world.
If such a catastrophe is never to come to pass, all who value freedom and abhor genocide must learn the ugly truth about Islamic antisemitism. Andrew Bostom collects everything we need to know in this one, exhaustive volume. Let us hope that people get the message before it's too late, and take action to prevent the stated aims of Islamic jihadists from becoming a terrible reality.
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