Taught to Hate Jews

It's difficult, perhaps, for many Westerners to grasp the hysterical hatred that many Muslims have for Jews. It's a hatred that seems to consume a significant majority of them and which boiled over in the horrific atrocities of October 7th.

This article gives some insight into how Jew-hatred is instilled in Muslim children almost from their infancy and how some Muslims have rejected it and the religion that fosters it.

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The following five ex-Muslims grew up in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, but they were all indoctrinated, they say, with the same views on Jews and Israel.

They remember a childhood shot through with antisemitic moments ranging from the mundane (one woman recalls her aunt claiming Jews put cancer in her vegetables at the market) to the deadly (a former extremist went as far as to pick a location in London for a terrorist attack he planned to carry out at 17).

These hateful ideas, repeated by their family members, religious leaders, and teachers, are part and parcel of the same animus, they say, that fueled Hamas’s attacks on October 7.

Some of the people you will hear from below have received death threats for speaking out on issues like antisemitism and sexism in the Muslim world. One uses a pen name to protect herself and her daughter from her terrorist ex-husband, who is currently jailed in Egypt.

All of them came to reject their loathing for Jewish people and the West, and have rebuilt their lives in the wake of their realizations. Here are their stories, which you can read or click to listen to each author recite in the audio recordings below.

One wishes that virtues like grace, tolerance, and love were more in evidence in a religion adhered to by 20% of the world's people. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Perhaps more Muslims will eventually realize that hatred and violence are spiritual dead ends and follow the example of the five whose testimonies were featured in this article.