Booklet review: “Islam and Judaism,” by P Curzio Nitoglia (1996)
The booklet is a summary of a massive book by P Théry (aka Hannah Zacharias) published first in 1955 with the title From Moses to Mohammed and now not available. Théry was a Catholic priest, member of the Papal Academy, professor at the Catholic Institute in Paris and a member of the historical department of the Holy Congregation. He died just before the second Vatican Council. The book was written as part of his priestly duties. It seems to be the case that his work has never been contradicted by the Pope or other princes of the church, so it stands that the official Catholic historical view of Islam is that it is a golem religion invented and pushed by devious, Jesus-hating Jewish rabbis. Wouldn’t it be good if more of the world’s billion or so Catholics became aware of this aspect of their faith?
Nitoglia sums up the work of Théry in five points:
1.Islam is nothing other than a post-Christian Jewish religion as explained by a rabbi.
2. Mohammed was pushed towards Judaism by his Jewish born wife Khadidja and helped by the rabbi of Mecca.
3. The Koran was put together by the rabbis of Mecca.
4. The original Koran was a shortened Arabic translation of the Pentatuech – the first five books of the Old Testament. It was lost after Mohammed’s death! If true, this is remarkably suspicious. After conquering all of Arabia with this new religion, how could the orginal Koran just go missing? He offers quotes from the new Koran as proof of the existence of the previous Koran: Sura 20,112 speaks of an Arabic translation and Sura 15, 86-87 mentions two previous written teachings.
5. The Koran is noticeably anti-Christian, precisely because it was written by a rabbi.Add Post
There were lots of Jews in Arabia back then, in the oases as well as the three cities of Mecca. Medina and Taif. In Medina, Jews were the majority. Most people were pagans and there were some Christian groups. It is suggested that a clever rabbi, well versed in Talmud, devised Islam as a simplified, Arabised Judaism to control the pagans and also prevent them converting to Christianity. Mohammed was selected as a plausible speaker.
He suggests that Mohammed broke with Judaism on ethnic grounds and absolutely not on religious grounds. “The historic place of the Revelation was moved from Jerusalem to Mecca.”
He notes that constant Holy War against the unbelievers is one of Islam’s holiest duties, but omits to draw the comparison with the Talmud’s similar injunctions to Jews.
“Why shouldn’t one be concerned given the increasing millions and millions of Muslims settling in (formerly) Christian Europe who want to islamize it?” He notes that some foolish Christians seek to find friendly references to Christianity in the Koran and he urges caution.
The writer lists a dozen or so other writers, Jews and non-Jews, who support the conclusion of a very intimate link and friendship between the two wings of the Judaeo-Islamic bird.
He quotes Israel Shahak: “Judaism is permeated with a deepseated hatred of Christianity […] In contrast, Judaism’s attitude to Islam is relatively benevolent.”
Omissions include the remarkable Judaeo-Islamic similarities with regards to lying, stealing, raping and murdering non-believers. Israel Shahak details the enthusiastic encouragement the Talmud gives for such activities. The Koran details numerous occasions where Mohammed, blessed be his name, personally engages in war crimes, as part of his day job as a war lord and treasure enthusiast. If you ever want to tease a Muslim friend, ask them what happened to Marwan’s daughter? She wrote some satirical poems about Mohammed, blessed be his name, and you can probably guess what happened to her… Perhaps the author did not want to attract extra controversy?
He says the Israel-Palestine conflict is not a Jewish-Muslim conflict. He quotes Lebanese christian militia leader Jocelyne Khoueiry as saying that the US and Israelis agreed to solve the Palestinian problem by giving them Lebannon and allowing the Lebanese Christians to emigrate to the US. Yassir Arafat and Hamas spokesman Mahmud El Adhar are quoted as saying the Muslims have no problem with their Jewish “cousins”.
“Judaism and Islam are always ready (even today) to band together to destroy Christianity.”
He ends by warning of Judaeo-Masonic infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church and the Judaisation of the Christian milieu.
Notes:
First published in French and Italian in Sodalitum (1996), magazine of Institut Mater Boni Consilii, Italy. Translated by Johannes Rothkranz and published as “Woher stammt der Islam?” by Verlag Anton A. Schmid (1998).
The Jewish Islam theory is not a fringe belief: The authors below include professors from Princeton and other halls of learning and the father of former British prime minister Boris Johnson.
Bernard Lazare, Antisemitism 1969, Bernard Lewis “la Rinascita Islamica” 1991,V Messori “Pensare la storia” 1992, Abraham Geiger “Was hat Mohammed agus den Judenthume aufgenommen?” 1833, P Crone/M Cook “Magarism:The making of the Islamic world” 1977, Rosenthal “Judaism and Islam” 1961, Katsh “Judaism in Islam” 1962, Gotein “Studies in Islamic History” 1966 and “Ebrei e Arabi nella storia” 1980, Cohen “The Jewish self government in medieval Egypt, P Johnson “History of the Jews” 1987, L Sestrieri “Gli Ebrei nella storia di trí milleni”1980, J Bouman “Il Corano e gli Ebrei” 1992, S Noja “Maometo profeta dell’islam” 1974
Any religion that practices infant genital mutilation needs to be eradicated from this earth.
two small typos:
“Was hat Mohammed agus den Judenthume aufgenommen?” should be “aus dem”.
P Crone/M Cook “Magarism:The making of the Islamic world” should be “Hagarism”.
A familiar and wearisome mixture of sense and nonsense.
It was the journalist Paul Johnson who wrote “History of the Jews” not the equally garrulous Stanley (father of Boris). The former was well paid for his exculpatory efforts
The author of “The History of the Jews” was not the father of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson but Paul Bede Johnson (2-11-28 – 2-1-23), a noted British author and journalist, best known for his editorship of the left-leaning weekly magazine ‘The New Statesman’. He had a Roman Catholic upbringing and was fervently philo-semitic.
His tome on the Jews has some interesting information; e.g. US crime. I prefer his Anglophile books “Wake Up, Britain!” & “Offshore Islanders”.
The author of the work reviewed has some nutty views on Islam. What I find ironic is that he can point out the purported Jewishness of Islam and the Koran while being totally blind to the Jewishness of his religion and sacred text. Forgetting the Old Testament, the New Testament is very Jewish and preaches a Jewish-centric worldview (“I come for the Jews and not for Gentile dogs” in Jesus’s very insulting interaction with a Canaanite woman).
Physician heal thyself.
If the Quran was a self-serving Jewish fabrication, why would it defend the virginity of the mother of the revered prophet Issa (Jesus) against Jewish calumnies that she was a prostitute?
Why would it say that the Jews spread mischief or corruption, and those who do so should be imprisoned, mutilated or killed by crucifixion? Or that Jews should not be taken as allies or friends? Or that God has cursed them? Why would it subject unarmed and submissive Jews to dhimmitude, in effect paying protection money?
Some Jewish writers like Meir Bar-Asher try to put a positive spin on the Muslim holy book, despite the Zionism-Islamism war, but you can set them against other Jewish scholars like Andrew Bostom.
As for the actual composition of the Quran, see e.g. “Origins of the Koran” and “Koranic Sources” by the atheist Ibn Warraq.
This is not totally convincing
Islam consideres Jesus to be an important holy person.
Why would anti Christian jews promote that?
Also based on texts that are lost hence speculative