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Morsi’s Anti-Semitic ‘Apes and Pigs’ Comment Wasn’t Taken Out of Context, It Was Taken Out of the Quran

Jan. 24, 2013 6:51pm

Tiffany Gabbay has been a writer and communications specialist for the past decade. Her passion for politics was fostered at an early age by her father, a successful entrepreneur and war hero. Tiffany worked as a Journalist on Capitol Hill where she interviewed some of the Beltway's biggest names, and also served as Deputy Director of a Republican Women’s advocacy group. Prior to her time in the beltway, Tiffany spent a number of years in the U.K. where she began her career in publishing. She started out in London's insurance and risk management industry as associate publisher for a popular trade publication, and later served as global communications manager for an international insurance trade body based in Manchester. She is a graduate of the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C. and studied communications at the London Institute.

Gabbay: Morsis Anti Semitic Apes and Pigs Comment Wasnt Taken Out of Context, It Was Taken Out of the Quran

It is, by now, a well-established fact that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has on repeated occasion and for over a decade in public life, referred to the Jewish people as “descendants of apes and pigs.” Despite asserting that his current bad press is merely the byproduct of a smear campaign led by the “Jewish-controlled media” (thereby doubling down on the hackneyed anti-Semitic slurs), the Muslim Brotherhood leader actually has an excuse for his consistently inflammatory rhetoric. After all, he is simply citing the Quran.

Amidst the sea of oft-repeated blood libels and anti-Semitic canards, the “descendants of apes and pigs” mantra may be among the most prominent, and indeed, most important, in terms of what it actually incites among those who speak it (or hear it), and know from whence it came.

Despite common perceptions, the derision was not coined by Adolf Hitler and then adopted by Islamists, rather, it was the other way around. Found within the Quran itself are numerous verses citing Allah’s hex on the Jewish people and their subsequent damnation to live as the aforementioned swine, and primates. Quran verse 5:60 is the key to the kingdom in this regard and serves as the basis for all modern-day iterations. The Hilali-Khan Quranic translation of this verse reads as follows:

Say (O Muhammad SAW to the people of the Scripture): “Shall I inform you of something worse than that, regarding the recompense from Allah: those (Jews) who incurred the Curse of Allah and His Wrath, those of whom (some) He transformed into monkeys and swines, those who worshipped Taghut (false deities); such are worse in rank (on the Day of Resurrection in the Hellfire), and far more astray from the Right Path (in the life of this world).”

Preoccupation with the “right path” and with delivering retribution to those (“some”) who turn away from it, is a recurring theme within the Quran. The right path, of course, is submission to Allah as he is perceived within Islam.

Islam’s sacred doctrine is divided into 114 suras, or chapters, in which a myriad references — both direct and indirect — are made to Jews, the Children of Israel. At best, these verses merely lay the groundwork, establishing the Jewish people as a depraved race whose adherents, en masse, veered off that righteous path. At worst, Quranic verse damns the Jewish infidels as a subhuman species worthy of the fires of hell.

As with any Arabic-to-English translation, particularly one that must also decipher 7th-century religious parlance  – certain words may not render exact, but highly esteemed translators have been able to  capture the overriding Quranic messages with clarity.

According to Islamic scholar Dr. Andrew Bostom, dehumanizing Quranic verses are “used explicitly for polemical incitement” and a brief review of Islamic history reinforces this fact. In the broader scale, they have catalyzed genocidal pogroms against Jewish communities in the Middle East, Spain and North Africa spanning centuries. Today, they serve as the bedrocks of Islamic-supremacy and an entire society bent on Israel’s outright annihilation.

A central tenet of Islam is that the Jewish people (and to a lesser extent, their Christian counterparts) transgressed against Allah, slaying the prophets and subverting God’s will. As a curse, these infidels were condemned to live out their days as a devolved species: apes and pigs. Quranic verse 2:16 along with verse 3:112 – which, not coincidentally, also serves as the preamble for the Hamas charter — explains:

Indignity is put over them wherever they may be, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allah, and from men; they have drawn on themselves the Wrath of Allah, and destruction is put over them. This is because they disbelieved in the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah and killed the Prophets without right. This is because they disobeyed (Allah) and used to transgress beyond bounds (in Allah’s disobedience, crimes and sins).

The Jewish people are abjured again in verse 5:78:

Those among the Children of Israel who disbelieved were cursed by the tongue of Dawud (David) and ‘Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary). That was because they disobeyed (Allah and the Messengers) and were ever transgressing beyond bounds.

Their curse is to dwell the earth, reviled as apes. Verses 7:166 and 2:65:

And well ye knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath: We said to them: “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”

Anti-Semitic themes are well-worn and indeed an integral part of traditional Islamic canon utilized by religious leaders, scholars and observant Muslims alike. Dr. Bostom, who has chronicled many such Quranic passages in his scholarly volume, “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,” juxtaposes how ancient texts are used to inform present-day narratives. Citing from the book, Egyptian government-appointed cleric Sheik Eid Abdel Hamid Youssef cast his Quranic aspersions (much like Morsi has done) during a 2009 sermon:

Muslim brothers, God has inflicted the Muslim nation with a people whom God has become angry at [Quran 1:7] and whom he cursed [Quran 5:78] so he made monkeys and pigs [5:60] out of them. They killed the prophets and messengers [Quran 2:61 and 3:112].

Considering the fact that the concept of Jews incarnated as apes and pigs is actually rooted in sacred Quranic text, it is no wonder Morsi would repeat the phrase like a psalm. And on several occasions he was even captured mouthing an “amen” after its repetition.

Indeed, the consistency with which present-day Islamic leaders summon their theological, anti-Semitic roots is sobering. And of course, Islam’s ultimate prophet is yet another source of divine inspiration. According to the earliest accounts of the Prophet Muhammad, Allah’s sacred messenger invoked the Quranic curse denigrating Jews as “ye brothers of apes” before subverting two Jewish tribes of Medina – Banus Qaynuqa and al-Nadir – and committing a savage genocide against the third, the Banu Qurayza.

The hadith (a collection of the prophet’s words and deeds) speaks of Muhammad’s decision to slaughter the Jewish tribe in Bukhari, volume 4, book 52, verse 68:

When Allah’s Apostle returned on the day (of the battle) of Al-Khandaq (i.e. Trench), he put down his arms and took a bath. Then Gabriel whose head was covered with dust, came to him saying, “You have put down your arms! By Allah, I have not put down my arms yet.” Allah’s Apostle said, “Where (to go now)?” Gabriel said, “This way,” pointing towards the tribe of Bani Quraiza. So Allah’s Apostle went out towards them.

And set out, with sword in hand, he did. In the end, an estimated 800 Jewish males from the Qurayza tribe were beheaded. Of course, modern-day Islamists believe Muhammad’s blood-lust to have been entirely justified, in much the same way they justify and celebrate their own current genocidal aspirations for the Jewish people, under the banner of Quran verse 4:47 and a myriad others:

O you who have been given the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Believe in what We have revealed (to Muhammad SAW)… and turn them hindwards, or curse them as We cursed the Sabbathbreakers. And the Commandment of Allah is always executed.

Hellfire awaits those Jews struck down in verses 4:55, 5:29, 98:6, and 58:14 - 19 (a cross-section of which is featured below):

Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islam, the Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) and Al-Mushrikun will abide in the Fire of Hell. They are the worst of creatures.

And of them were (some) who believed therein and of them were (some) who turned away from it. Hell is sufficient for (their) burning.

Allah has prepared for them a severe torment. Evil indeed is that which they used to do.

The history of Islamic anti-Semitism dates back to the religion’s founding and has spilled centuries-worth of Jewish blood across the Middle East and Maghreb. In reviewing expressly the Quran, not including the hadiths or any other early Islamic missives, derogatory references inciting hatred or violent action against the Jewish people, abound. Those cited here are but a few examples.

We question why the Palestinian Authority models its elementary school textbooks after Mein Kampf and lament the seemingly constant stream of rabid anti-Semitism and intolerance emanating from even the most seemingly moderate side of the Islamic community, but in the final analysis, it makes perfect sense when understanding how faith informs, in essence, all aspects of Islamic daily life.

Let us not forget that Morsi himself has sought stricter application of sharia law in Egypt — not to mention the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is, itself, no “secular” organization (as National Intelligence Director James Clapper once so foolishly asserted). Islamic theology and more pointedly, eschatology, is the cornerstone with which Morsi seeks to rebuild Egypt as he believes it was intended to be: a land that comports directly with the central tenets of the Quran.

Those familiar with Islam know that regardless of an adherent’s ethnicity — be they Egyptian, Persian, Saudi, Pakistani or Iraqi — they are first and foremost Muslims. The factious battles between Sunnis and Shia’as are but a blip on the micro-scale of Islamic tribal life. In the end, the two sparring sects are united in their goal of defeating the larger “satans” who roam the earth.

Thus, when Mohammed Morsi, who is leader of the theocratic Muslim Brotherhood, declares that Jews are “descendants of apes and pigs,” believe that he means what he says. And when he says the comments were taken out of context, remember that the context, is the Quran.

[This post has been updated]

Comments (75)

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  • B-Neil
    Jan. 27, 2013 at 10:47am

    I don’t know; correct me if I’m wrong. It sure sounds like Democrats to me. You believe and live your life the way we want you to or you will be concidered unworthy to fution in our world of total control by the Government. We will arrest you and put you in a re-education camp or kill you.

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  • j97862
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 11:45pm

    I guess it’s no worse than the how the Jews mock Jesus and his followers…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RY83mAr5uA

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  • Couyon64
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 3:12pm

    The decendants of apes and pigs are still living like apes and pigs.

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  • universalphilos
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 2:40pm

    April 15, 1977: “The Lord came unto you through Abraham, and Moses, and Isaiah, and John, and Jesus, and Buddha, and Mohammed – not to separate you, but to give each of you, as you have built our Father’s many mansions, knowledge.
    For those of you who would say that a man should curse and use the Lord’s name in vain, that, in itself, is not an unforgivable sin. It is when you commit an act, and say, ‘This is the will of the Lord; this is what my Lord, God, would have me do. I am doing as God would have directed,’ we say, nay, unto you. For you of, those of you who should put words in the Lord’s mouth, He shall spit them out upon the earth. For those of you who should put words in the one known as Jesus of Nazara, Jesus the Christ, he shall spit them out.
    We say unto you, these are the later days. If the work we have come to do is successful, a thousand years of peace and harmony shall come upon the earth, but not as you count, for each day shall be as a thousand years, and each half-day shall be as a hundred years. But we say unto you, the half-times are over. Fulfillment of the prophecies are at hand — full fulfillment.”
    http://www.angelfire.com/in4/aup_messiah/1977April15.audio.html

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  • universalphilos
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 2:14pm

    December 29, 1972: “But hark unto these words. Our Father has written only upon the Tablets. Man has written upon your pages and your paper; therefore, many things have been extracted from, taken away from that that inspired the men in the beginning to write of the same, and some has been added to by others. We have come, not to change the Laws, but to fulfill the prophecies of the same. We have come not to change that that was given within Moses’ time. We have come not to change that that was given unto Isaiah. We have come not to change that that was given, and the gift that was given, in the one known as Jesus. But hark unto these words. We have come for this time.
    We have come from those who should make their entry. We have come from those who did say unto our Father, ‘Send those who know You best to prepare a way for our coming, that our Father’s words should not be misinterpreted.’” [See John 14:15-26, 15:26-27, 16:7-15, and 16:19-24.]
    [Spoken by spiritual messengers of God]

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  • ellietoo
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 12:38pm

    This is what grade school kids learn wherever Muslims go to school through out the middle east and in the US. These people are born and bred to be racist. It is their politics, their religion, their entire reason for existence is to hate Jews and the west. Right now the Christian community, that has lived in Egypt for 2000 years, is being tortured and murdered by Morsi’s government. A Jew would not dare to show their face in the new Egypt. Yet, the Untied States of America is still giving them billions of dollars a year.

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  • Tom70
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 11:53am

    Ah! Yes that book of peaceful coexistence for the planet.NOT

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  • SuperMax52
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 8:59am

    Islam is not a religion, It is a cult.
    http://thetheamericanconstitutionalist.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html

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  • tommysoap
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 8:33am

    Lots of talking heads in the media including Beck make excuses for this filth called “Islam”. I have been waiting for over a decade for one of the media apologists to demonstrate just one Koranic verse that shows any benevolence, tolerance or love for any non Muslim.

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  • Vanguard
    Jan. 26, 2013 at 2:25am

    “What difference does it make?” The jews have been killed as God’s people for thousands of years, we’ll kill them again… it’s ok.

    I pray I’m wrong.

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  • Alaskaninfidel
    Jan. 25, 2013 at 6:04pm

    None of my posts on is lam will post. I seem to be banned.

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  • Bigthan84231
    Jan. 25, 2013 at 5:04pm

    Compare the Bible to the Koran or any other so-called authoritative word and you will see the difference between the true Word of God (66 books) and those that come from sinful man.

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    • SirhanSirhan
      Jan. 25, 2013 at 6:25pm

      @ BIGTHAN84231- Okay lets see what Jesus had to say about his brothers, the Jews:

      Matthew 23:33 Ye SNAKES, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

      Matthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

      Matthew 16:4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.

      To the non-Jew, Jesus called them this:

      Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the DOGS, neither cast ye your pearls before PIGS, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

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    • ellietoo
      Jan. 26, 2013 at 1:20pm

      Jesus was speaking to the “religious” leaders of the day who were corrupt and who were trying to keep the people from recognizing their Messiah. The believers were all Jewish for the first 10 years of church history. No where did Jesus degrade the value of human life. He did speak openly against the corruption of the law that had taken place. I guess He would know since it was His book to begin with.

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  • American_Made
    Jan. 25, 2013 at 4:55pm

    Quran makes good TP in a pinch. Little Ruff but about all it is good for.

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  • toomuchgovt
    Jan. 25, 2013 at 4:24pm

    Maybe it is time we have a study the bible and the quran show on the Blaze. I would love watch, I would love to study the bible with David Barton.

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