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There are legitimate criticisms of Islam in its non-corrupted form, such as its repressive attitudes towards women, its allowance of polygamy, and its longstanding paranoia towards threats to Islam by other religions, even in the Prophet Mohammed's days.

There are legitimate criticisms of Islam in its non-corrupted form, such as its repressive attitudes towards women, its allowance of polygamy, and its longstanding paranoia towards threats to Islam by other religions, even in the Prophet Mohammed's days.

The bigotry by Muslim Arabs to Jews that has spread to other Muslim societies like Muslim Iranians, is the result of Arab nationalist bigotry - not even directly associated with Islam. Arab nationalism arose in the 20th century in opposition to British imperial rule, because the British allowed Jews from outside to settle in what is now Israel, Arab nationalists blamed Jews as tools of British imperialism and vicious anti-Semitism exploded. Arabs and Jews are both ethnically Semitic peoples who in the past had far less tensions before the rise of Arab nationalism and Jihadism. Certainly Muslim Arabs like the Prophet Mohammed believed that Jews and Christians should be aggressively pressured to abandon their faith and join Islam, but Muslim Arabs back then wanted to assimilate Jews, as a fellow Semitic people with a related faith, into Islam.

The bigotry by Muslim Arabs to Jews that has spread to other Muslim societies like Muslim Iranians, is the result of Arab nationalist bigotry - not even directly associated with Islam. Arab nationalism arose in the 20th century in opposition to British imperial rule, because the British allowed Jews from outside to settle in what is now Israel, Arab nationalists blamed Jews as tools of British imperialism and vicious anti-Semitism exploded. Arabs and Jews are both ethnically Semitic peoples who in the past had far less tensions before the rise of Arab nationalism and Jihadism. Indeed prior to the explosion of anti-Semitic Arab nationalism, [[Zionism|Zionist]] leader [[Theodor Hertzl]] believed (in 20/20 hindsight perhaps naively) that Arabs as Semitic brothers of Jews would convert to Judaism. Certainly Muslim Arabs like the Prophet Mohammed believed that Jews and Christians should be aggressively pressured to abandon their faith and join Islam, but Muslim Arabs back then wanted to assimilate Jews, as a fellow Semitic people with a related faith, into Islam.

So as I've said above, we need to split our criticisms into one section on criticism of the doctrine of Islam and another section on Jihadism - the corrupted version of Islam based on anti-Semitic and anti-Christian bigotry.--[[User:TheQuestioner|TheQuestioner]] 11:54, 4 August 2012 (EDT)

So as I've said above, we need to split our criticisms into one section on criticism of the doctrine of Islam and another section on Jihadism - the corrupted version of Islam based on anti-Semitic and anti-Christian bigotry.--[[User:TheQuestioner|TheQuestioner]] 11:54, 4 August 2012 (EDT)