By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

In a previous article, I quoted Bernard Lewis, the doyen of Islamic studies, who recognized that overweening arrogance is characteristic of Muslim culture. From Lewis we learn that worshippers of the Qur’an are so proud of their own perfection as to make Islam and its Muslim worshipers “impervious to external stimuli.” This requires Israel to treat these disciples of Mohammad ruthlessly, as brilliantly explained by the author of Civilization and Its Enemies, Lou Harris, the “philosopher of 9/11.

The inordinate pride or arrogance of Muslims will only be magnified by the sugary self-restraint of democratic politicians like Benjamin Netanyahu.  Muslims who regard Jews as “dogs” – their epithet for all non-Muslims – need to be treated as one might treat mad dogs: kill them at once.  Failure to do so will only encourage these beasts to murder more Jews. And mark this well: they will target our most eminent citizens, rabbis, to degrade Judaism and flaunt the “supremacy” of their own religion.

Only recall how the Viet Cong Communists targeted the mayors and teachers of South Vietnam villages – the most respected personalities – to demoralize their enemy in the South.

No sane person would seek to befriend a dog stricken with rabies – a poison analogous to the pathological hatred Muslims incubate and harbor for Jews, a hatred so vividly portrayed by Leon Uris in Exodus.

An Israeli Prime Minister that disregards the lethal theo-political significance of this hatred is not qualified for that office. An Israeli Prime Minister that does not feel morally outraged by the murder of rabbis – especially by Muslims – is a clod, to put it mildly.

The great Arab philosopher al-Farabi (d. 950), who was a Muslim in dress only, would agree. He wrote a book on Plato and Aristotle in an esoteric way to conceal his utter contempt for Islam on the one hand, and his admiration of those Greek philosophers on the other. Indeed, the great Arab historian and sociologist ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) regarded Arabs as “savages.” You don’t negotiate with savages, certainly not on the basis of “reciprocity” – which would be indicative of fatuity bordering on insanity!

Much the same may be said of Israeli officials who collaborate in a Government that consorts with the murderers of Jewish children. Against such ruthless enemies, ruthlessness is a must, lest they call us sheep as well as dogs!

By Paul Eidelberg

Muslims have a distinct psychological advantage over Jews: their capacity for hatred. Ben Hecht is one Jew who understood this, and his keen understanding makes fools of the Jews who have tried to make peace with Muslims since 1993.

Hecht writes: “The scoundrel – prince or priest or adventurer – has always known that it is easier to win followers through their deep talent for hate than their … capacity for love.  He has known that hatred is the magic for victory, if you can control it. Hatred strengthens people and solidifies them – behind you, if you are lucky. When we hate someone, we feel the courage necessary for slaying. If we happen to hate someone weak and unarmed against us, this does not lessen our sense of courage. In fact, it increases it. Not only the Germans, but scores of nations have shouted themselves to battle by first triumphing over the Jews.”

The greatest haters in the world are Muslims. Their hatred is so intense as to be inhuman or pathological. Writing on this subject in The New York Times (December 18, 1994), Steven Erlanger quotes the celebrated Russian author, Tolstoy. Tolstoy wrote about the Russian destruction of a Chechen village:  “The emotion felt by every Chechen, old and young, was stronger than hatred.  It was not hatred; it was a refusal to recognize these Russian dogs as men at all, and a feeling of such disgust [and] revulsion … that the urge to destroy them, like the urge to destroy rats, venomous spiders, or wolves, was an instinct as natural as self-preservation.”

Leon Uris vividly portrays this hate in his 1985 novel The Haj. One of its characters, the famous Orde Wingate, says this of Arab, hence of Arab Muslim, hatred:

Every last Arab is a total prisoner of his society.  The Jews will eventually have to face up to what you’re dealing with here. The Arabs will never love you for what good you’ve brought them. They don’t know how to really love. But hate!  Oh God, can they hate!  And they have a deep, deep, deep resentment because you [Jews] have jolted them from their delusion of grandeur and shown them for what they are—a decadent, savage people controlled by a religion that has stripped them of all human ambition … except for the few cruel enough and arrogant enough to command them as one commands a mob of sheep.  You [Jews] are dealing with a mad society and you’d better learn how to control it.

The novel’s central (but hardly typical) character, Haj Ibrahim, confides (paradoxically) to a Jewish friend:

During the summer heat my people become frazzled…. They are pent up. They must explode. Nothing directs their frustration like Islam.  Hatred is holy in this part of the world. It is also eternal…. You [Jews] do not know how to deal with us. For years, decades, we may seem to be at peace with you, but always in the back of our minds we keep up the hope of vengeance.  No dispute is ever really settled in our world. The Jews give us a special reason to continue warring.

Uris uses another such character, the cultured Dr. Mudhil, to elaborate:

We [Muslims] do not have leave to love one another and we have long ago lost the ability.  It was so written twelve hundred years earlier.  Hate is our overpowering legacy and we have regenerated ourselves by hatred from decade to decade, generation to generation, century to century.  The return of the Jews has unleashed that hatred, exploding it wildly …  In ten, twenty, thirty years the world of Islam will begin to consume itself in madness.  We cannot live with ourselves … we never have.  We are incapable of change.

Later in the novel, Mudhil remarks: “Islam is unable to live at peace with anyone…. One day our oil will be gone, along with our ability to blackmail. We have contributed nothing to human betterment in centuries, unless you consider the assassin and the terrorist as human gifts.”

Although The Haj was written in 1985 and became an international best-seller, as well as a Hollywood movie, it has not been read or taken seriously by the Jews who concluded or applauded the Israel-PLO Agreement of 1993. The milquetoast attitude of those Jews toward Islamic hatred prevails to this day.