Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

The hatred against all Jews, which comes not from being an Arab but specifically from Islamic teaching, was reflected in the inhumane treatment of Jews in Arab countries ever since Islam took over. Prior to the seventh century and the advent of the prophet Muhammad and Islam, as investigative reporter Joan Peters (in her monumental book “From Time Immemorial”) points out from her exhaustive research, “Jews and Arabs did have harmonious relations, and words of praise regarding the noble virtues of the Jews may be found in ancient Arab literature. Indeed, Muhammad himself in the early years, as he was seeking recognition as a prophet, looked with favor upon both Jews and Christians and cultivated their friendship.” But that turned to hatred when they rejected him as “the prophet of Allah.”
Though Muhammad continued to call Christians and Jews “the people of the book,” the fierce hatred that had begun when they rejected him continued to grow. The Qur’an declares, “O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends” (Surah 5:51). Muhammad’s dying words were “May Allah curse the Christians and Jews!” What a contrast to Christ’s teaching that we are to love all mankind as ourselves (Matthew:22:39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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