Many Muslims today hold that the Jews falsified the text of the #Torah. It is a real barrier between Islam and Judaism — and a brick in the wall of the Middle East conflict. My new essay argues this belief contradicts the #Quran itself.
The term is #tahrif. The earliest Islamic reading — al-Tabari, and Ibn Abbas as transmitted by al-Bukhari — is distortion of meaning/interpretation, not corruption of the written text. The "the text was forged" doctrine was systematized only later, by Ibn Hazm (11th c.).
The Quran treats the Torah as present and authoritative: it has Jesus come "confirming the Torah," and it tells the People of the Book to "bring the Torah and read it." You cannot confirm — or adjudicate by — a text you regard as a forgery.
And we now know what that text was. The Dead Sea Scrolls (3rd c. BCE–1st c. CE) preserve the Hebrew scriptures of Jesus's contemporaries — substantially the text Jews read today.
The conclusion is irenic, not polemical: returning to Muslims the scriptures the Quran itself affirms removes a theological cause of conflict.
Full essay:
https://t.co/Vv7kSoA226
In my publications on my website I often include Arabic text in my articles written in English. And I have made a tool to help read #Arabic text embedded in text in another language.
It can be installed from the Chrome Web Store:
https://t.co/yXrEwDAwvx
@aayoub@adc Jesus was a Jew, an Israelite. And if he wandered into Ramallah or Gaza , he'd be brutally murdered by these "Palestinians", just like Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami were killed in Ramallah, and Shani Louk was killed in Gaza just for being a Jew
https://t.co/lkKpgW7l3c
On this date in 2000, two Israelis took a wrong turn and accidentally entered Ramallah . Palestinian savages dragged them out of their cars and brought them to the PaliNazi police department where the barbarian Palestinians proceeded to lynch and disembowel them.
The majority of Palestinians support the terrorist organizations responsible for the current terrorist attacks and massacres.Given the opportunity, many would massacre Jews.
Palestinian society is diseased beyond repair!
@uncutversion123 These aren't Hamas militants. These are what's called "civilians," ordinary Gazans who are now suffering because of Hamas's actions, which they had no part in.
Why we don’t need another “ceasefire.”
What we *need* is **unconditional surrender** — like in WWII
Modern diplomacy lets aggressors walk free, rearm, and return.
Here's why that doctrine is broken — and what international law *really* says.
🔗 https://t.co/HSfkkYYdxY
#Israel’s latest strike on #Iran isn’t “preemptive” – it’s a lawful act of self-defence under Art. 51 #UN Charter. I trace the timeline and #InternationalLaw rules in a short explainer . Read here ⤵️
https://t.co/SnIrh4MJwe
I have published a legal analysis of the concept of the "#Palestinian people" and their right to self-determination.
Due to the extreme complexity of the topic, I would be very grateful for comments, additions and possible criticism of the article.
https://t.co/HrI94xdAvz
@Shutup100000 רק כגרסה:
היו אמורים תקיפה מהירה ויעילה על בסיסי צבא בגבול, כיבוש מפקדת אוגדת "עזה", כיבוש מתקני צבא בגבול. מישהו מהנהגת השב"כ ומישהו מהגנרלים בצבא מכריזים כי הממשלה איבדה שליטה על המצב, ומחליפים את הממשלה בעצמם, הם מיד עושים עסקה עם חמאס
https://t.co/NYwOQxUSDN
אז משה ארבל מהטובים, גלית מהרעים, אלי כהן מהמזיקים, סמוטריץ מהמתוחכמים, בן גביר מהגסים…..מה זה משנה?
יש ממשלה, יש לה ראש ממשלה, היא ממשלת הרס וכל השאר פשוט לא חשוב. את הממשלה הזו חייבים להחליף ומהר. לחץ בלתי מתפשר. אוקטובר מתקרב. שעת הכרעה
C @ElenaPrigova на канале Kontinent TV говорили о Дне Независимости Израиля: глубинные причины войны и где ключи к миру
https://t.co/xStelUBeEv
#Israel#war#internationallaw
The thesis that that "the goal of freeing the hostages is contrary to the goal of destroying Hamas" is absolutely false.
This is the same as claiming that the goal of freeing concentration camp prisoners was contrary to the goal of destroying the Nazis.