Wake Up America

At the blog Wake Up America, the blogger there has responded intelligently and fairly to a comment from one of his readers. The commenter said:

Jews are the market dominant minority of the middle east. That is why they are hated so much. Instead of admitting that Jews are probably genetically smarter than other races, Muslims come up with strange conspiracies to rationalize their inability to build successful, modern societies.

This is how Roger W. Gardener responded (in part):

I think that Jews are hated by Arabs because they are Jews; it's an integral part of their "religion" and their culture. To look for any other explanations is, to me, beside the point, and perhaps in an odd way lends a certain credence to their murderous lunacies.

Spot on. I would not be surprised if there is some resentment from Arab Muslims about Israeli Jews' academic and material success as opposed to the Muslim world, but make no mistake - that is because of religion. The Judeo-Christian tradition is fairly open to scientific enquiry; Islamic culture is not. And religion, too, is the main motivator for Arab hatred of Jews. It's all in the Qur'an. People tend to forget that.