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Affan, by a rioting mob. He writes in the essay that the man who incited the people and set them loose to kill caliph Uthman was Jewish.
    Sayyid Qutb is prone to lie with a sense of self-righteousness that is the hallmark of most Islamists. The person he accuses of being the Jew who incited the killing of Uthman and of fomenting the schism in Islam was a man named Abdullah ibn Safa. By all accounts he was a Yemeni Jew who had converted to Islam. So what? All the Muslims involved in this first civil war of Islam – the Muslims backing Uthman and those opposing him – were not born in Islam. Some, like Caliph Uthman, were former pagans, while others had come to Islam from Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. To use the Jewish ancestry of Abdullah ibn Safa (who the Shias, besides, claim is a fictitious character) as a sign of Jewish deviousness, when other converted Jewswere supporting Uthman, is unadulterated Judeophobia that has gone unchallenged for centuries. Qutb’s essay epitomizes the Islamist tradition of passing the buck to the kuffar. No matter how badly we Muslims bungle our diplomacy, there is always the Jew to blame for the mess we create. One could argue that if a Jew can be blamed for the murder of Caliph Uthman, then a Jew can also be blamed for the Darfur genocide or the Muslim-on-Muslim slaughter in Pakistan.
    Sayyid Qutb’s Jew-hatred has had dreadful consequences in the Muslim communities where Shia and Sunni Muslims peacefully coexisted for centuries on the Indian subcontinent, where the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad took refuge among Hindu kingdoms as they were hunted down by the Umayyad Arab caliphate in Damascus. Today, the anti-Semitism spread by Islamists like Qutb and their Saudi sponsors has mutated into hatred of the Shias, since it is hard to find a single Jew in all of Pakistan. Among the slanderous myths that have come from
The Protocols
and been tweaked to apply to Shia Muslims are the following:
Shias slaughter young Sunni children and use their blood and meat during the feast offerings at the time of Ashura to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet.
Shias inject their semen into food they serve to Sunnis.
Shias disembowel their dead seniors, extract a clear liquid, and use it in the preparation of food to be served to other Muslims during the holy month of Muharram.
During the celebration of Nawroz (when Shias in Pakistan and Iran gather to read Sufi prayers), Shia Muslims indulge in incestuous orgies.
    These are some of the lies being propagated by Sunni Islamist groups, such as Sipah-e-Sahaba, that are allied to the Taliban and al Qaeda, where the teachings of Sayyid Qutb are introduced by the so-called Arab Afghans who come to Pakistan and Afghanistan armed with
The Protocols
, Milestones, and Qutb’s essay “Our Fight against the Jews.” When they can’t find any Jews to blame, the next best thing for them to target is Shia Muslims. It is not uncommon to hear Arabs from Sunni-dominated societies say that they are “free of the swines and the Shias.”
    In sweeping statements that depict Jews as a monolithic organism stretching from seventh-century Medina to his own day, Qutb claims that this enemy of Islam is waging a two-pronged attack against Muslims – one physical and the other religious. Qutb accuses Jews of being both cowardly and conniving, and of creating confusion in the minds of Muslims about their new faith, Islam, by sowing doubt about their faith, and by hatching plots to make Muslim fight fellow Muslim.
    There is no doubt that the debate about Islam and Judaism that took place in Medina in 622 between Prophet Muhammad and the Jewish rabbis of the city must have been intense. It is within the realm of possibility that the Jewish leadership of Medina resisted the emerging force of Islam, resulting in conflict and bitterness. However, Sayyid Qutb takes a ludicrous leap by suggesting that the war against Islam is one long continuous