Apes and Swine (Not What You Might Think)
October 15, 2006
An excellent post by Eteraz from some months ago on Jews As Apes and Swine (or are they? – read the article). Part of the reason I’m linking to it is due to a brief e-mail conversation I had with someone recently on this same topic.
Eteraz tackles this issue with sensitivity (and common sense).
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1. customerservant.com &raqu&hellip | October 16, 2006 at 6:07 pm
[...] The post from which I will present an excerpt was brought to my attention by Proggiemuslima and I’m grateful for her pointing it out. It’s by Eteraz. Anti-semitism is rife in the Muslim world. It is rife in European Muslim youth. In Iran and Pakistan. Muslims have to take accountability for this. They have to excavate and upturn their tradition to rid it of the strangehold of the maulvis who do not have the intellectual facility, or interest, to assure that Islam conforms to its humanistic impulse. Free it from those who turn metaphors into literalism. The Jews are the most persecuted race on the face of the earth. Yet, that has not stopped the Jews from extending a helpful and supportive hand to all other races. … In my opinion, no people have had more moral clarity than the Jews. While Muslims are free to disagree with Jews upon matters of politics and policy, they must not compromise their integrity, nor compromise the humanity of the Jews. As I have demonstrated, a little use of one’s mind, will show one a clear path out of the stultification of the intellectual night. The fact that the interpretation of the verses I have set forth is not popular is not an indictment of the Quran; it is an indictment of all Muslims everywhere who have perpetuated dangerous literalism. There are men and women in the tradition who have read these verses as I have. The jurists Mujahid, Asad and Ghamidi being some of them. But it is insufficient for a handful of scholars to believe such things. Our aunts and uncles, neighbors and maulvis, must be taught better. [...]