Qanta Ahmed’s Denial of the Reality of Islamic Anti-Semitism
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Qanta Ahmed is a poised and eloquent defender of “moderate” Islam. A British-American pulmonologist now serving as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York, she also describes herself as a specialist in the study of Islamism as contrasted with Islam.
Recently, she has written opinion pieces firmly skewering Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her incontrovertible anti-Semitism and the Democrat Party for failing to promptly (or even belatedly) reprimand her for her bigotry and put her on notice concerning any future slurs. One such piece appeared Feb. 14th in the Daily Caller by the title “Ilhan Omar Brings Shame To American Muslim,”which Robert Spencer, Director of JihadWatch, so ably pilloried in a post on Feb. 2oth. A few days ago, the Fox News website carried her message under the lengthy banner “Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite who brands criticism of her as anti-Muslim bigotry – but she’s the real bigot.”
In my opinion, Ahmed diagnoses the problem correctly, but she gets the etiology wrong. That is, she rightly condemns the anti-Semitic hatred of Ilhan Omar’s statements, but she wrongly attributes that antipathy to a modern fiction known as “Islamism” rather than to orthodox Islam itself. Since Ahmed clings to a belief in Islam as “moderate”, she cannot allow herself to see that the problem of Omar’s anti-Semitism finds its roots in the Qur’an and Sunna of Muhammad.
Ahmed declares, in purported contrast to Omar, “I don’t hate Jews and I don’t hate the Jewish state of Israel.” In fact , she goes on to say,
I have studied the Koran and know it says Jerusalem belongs the Jews. The Koran devotes an entire chapter to the Children of Israel – and considers the Israelites to be a nation bestowed with special Divine favor.
This is a highly misleading statement. As a matter of fact, Jerusalem is never mentioned by name in the Qur’an. Everything Ahmed declares positively about the Jews and Israel rests upon only one passage in Islam’s holy book, 5:20-21, which reads: Continue reading The lying, conniving Qanta Ahmed


























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