Sir John Glubb's Description of Muhammad's
Quest for Jewish Support, > ventual Animosity

Temple Israel Sets
a Multi-Media
Selihot Service

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22—Fddsy, -Septurber HI, 1970

Politics is the greatest of all
sciences.—Vauvenargues.
Muhammad— Mohammed— "th e of Muhammad, told by Glubb In to political causes or to the basic
Arabian Messenger of God"—wh o his historical analyses, are accom- similarities of their faiths."
in his earliest preachments sough t panied by outlines of incidents in
Glubb thus introduces a subject
The community is invited to
STOCKING •
Jewish support and cooperation which their condemnations of that remains cause for deep dis- Temple Israel's third annual Self-
later became the enemy of th e Jews, retaliations, battles, the pute and division of opinion among hot service, which ushers in the : Largest Selection of Fine
Jews, persecuted man% in som e tragic end to established Jewish historians and theologians.
American & Imported
High Holy Days, 11 p.m. Sept. 28.
communities, inspired massacre s settlements.
Glubb naturally adopts a mod-
A 10:30 reception in the social
in leading centers. Sir John Glubb
Thus, Glubb describes "what erate view toward Islam and he
the British general who trained might be called the rehabilitation
declares in his summary: "On hall will precede the service.
•
the Jordanian army and led it to of Mecca" which began after
the whole, we are obliged to ad-
The Temple Israel Youth Group
.:
victory over Israel in the battle Muhammad's "breach with the
I af hard-to-beat
mit that, while Islam counte-
will participate, and Rabbis
of the Israel War of Independence Jews," when tbe Apostle changed nances war and, in certain cir-
•
EVERYDAY
•
Leon
Fram
and
M.
Robert
Syme,
—the only Arabian force to be sue
cumstances, even orders it, the
the Qibla, the direction of prayer,
cessful against Israel — describes from Jerusalem to Mecca.
together with Cantor Harold Or-
Muslim religion was not Pri-
prices
I
the Muslim-Jewish struggles in
marily propagated by the sword.
bach and the temple choir, will
The siege of Medina, the debate On the contrary, the first Arab
"The Life and Times of Muham-
Cuesfa-Rrey ,
conduct the service, featuring •
mad," published by Stein and Day. that preceded Jewish opposition conquerors were conspicuous for
original readings.
The author of this important biog- and the warnings of an impending their moderation and for the
raphy, who became known as destruction, receive emphatic con- toleration which they showed
A highlight will be a multi-
(available in natural or
macluro wrapper)
Glubb Pasha, throws much light sideration in the Glubb story of for other religions. Their mill- media presentation, with narrative, •
on the Mohammedan history and Muhammad and his time. From tary conquests were indeed rapid music and special lighting and :
'BUY THE BOX'
I
the
Qoran
'(Koran),
Chapter
his description of Muhammad's
but the conversion of the con- film effects, prepared by the tem-
relations with Jews is especially XXXIII, Verse 25, the author quered peoples to Islam was ple's newly-formed creative liturgy ISO COGA
NLit ■ $ 1 4M :a i
quotes the reference to Jews as slow and was not achieved by committee, under the chairman-
enlightening.
ship of Ronald Stone.
Glubb describes how "Jews bad People of the Book and the descrip- fs o
i r '
become increasingly hostile to him tion of the defeat of "the untie
Because of the issue it raises,
For information on the service,
(Muhammad) as time passed." Revers" who refused to follow it is interesting to point to the membership or the religious school •
TOBACCONIST :
CaMosuo Sisedoil Pipe Tiaras
He tells how the Messenger of God Muhammad, thus:
following
Glubb
statement
that
programs
of Temple Israel, call • •
"God drove back the unbelievers preceded the last quotation:
"originally hoped for Jewish sup-
•
21178
GREENFIELD ROAD
the office, UN 3-7769.
•
In elevien4 Sieepplenp Center
port against idolatrous Arabs,ieven in their rage and they gained no
"A few years ago, I was stag-
Opea Eirathsgs NO Sowleys
if they refused to accept him as advantage and God was a suffi: gered by a statement in a letter
PACKAOR IJOUOR MAUER
There is a politeness of the •
their messiah. He made lavish use cient defence for the believers, so which I received from a Jewish
of Old Testament stories, he that they did not have to fight for friend. 'Christianity,' he wrote, 'has heart. It is akin to love.—Goetbe. ••••••••••••••••••••••••
prayed facing Jerusalem and bor- God was Mighty and Glorious. always been the most cruel and
rowed many minor practices from And He brought low those of the bestial of religions? I could scarce-
People of the Book who supported
Judaic ritual.
believe my eyes. Did not Chris-
from their forts, some of ly
Legends,?-historic fact, quota- them
believe that peacemakers are
you killed and some you tians
tions from many documents are whom
blessed,
for they shall be called
made captives."
provided as data for much of
children of God? Did not Christ
Glubb describes Muhammad's say, 'Love your enemies, bless
the record incorporated in this
role in claiming, as the Messen- them that curse you, do good to
important biography cf the Mus-
lim prophet. There is, as an
ger of God, "that it was his mis- them that hate you?' But when my
A. few large luxury student apartments available for fall:
site to restore the religion of friend went on to describe the
example of the dominance of
nicely furnished, air cond., 2 bathrooms per apt., fire-
Abraham. He had hoped for persecutions suffered by the Jews
Muhammad's rule, this annota-
Jewish support in this task and in Europe, I began to realize how
tion: "The following paragraph
proof. Manager on premises; balconies. Roommate service.
had declared Jerusalem to be easy it is to attribute crimes to
is taken verbatim from Ibn
the Holy City towards which other religions. Nothing in the
lahaq: 'The Apostle said, "Kill
RIVER EDGE—WATERS EDGE APTS.
any Jew_ who falls into year prayer should be nude. He used New Testament can be taken to
One Block-from e-Campus
many Old Testament stories to authorize the abominable treat-
power." Thereupon Muludyisa
Det. Telephone
illustrate his theses and adopted ment meted out to Jews in Europe.
ibn Masood leaped upon Ibn
1050 Waters Edge Dr.
868-9659
Sunaina, a Jewish merchant ...
prayer, fasting and alms as the The nations concerned were sav-
(517) 332-4432 • E. Lansing
358-5656
cornerstones of his religious age, brutal, greedy and fanatical,
and killed him . . . His elder
rites, as the Jews had done. and behaved in a way exactly onsteeblieleninai.Voilmoleolow/ennol.nnalynaritionnosnoonotallionowineasenaolnieebonoeeeno,„.
brother beat him, saying, "Did
you kill him when much of the
Many of the revelations which contrary to the teaching of Christ."
fat off your belly comes from
he received were couched in a
Glubb's total approach is inte-
his. wealth?" But Muhalyisa re-
style similar to passages in the resting, enlightening, inspires
For the
plied, "Had the cue who told me
Old Testament. The rules which further study into the vast subject
Most Elegant
be
promulgated
on
food
were
to kill him ordered me to kill
he introduces. Theologians and
Bar Mitzva
similar to these observed by the historians will differ with much
you, my brother, I would have
Suits in Town
Jews."
cut off your head." ' "
that he says, and even on the sub-
with the
Then came the drastic changes ject of New Testament anti-Semi-
Medina Jews were predominant
in the era of Muhammad in the and the animosities, as outlined tism he is not the total authority.
Finest Fit
But in the main, he treats an im-
seventh century and much of the by Sir John Glubb, as follows:
Slims and Huskies
"After the migration to Medina, portant subject brilliantly and his
prophet's wrath was against them,
causing much suffering, resulting the Apostle changed a number of Muhammad biography is a valua-
Too!
ble
contribution
to
the
subject
of
in struggles between the three these rules notably those con-
known "Jewish tribes," together cerned with praying towards Jeru- Islam and its prophet.
—P.S.
with Arabs who opposed Muham- salem, Sabbath observance and the
mad, and culminating In a massa- annual fast, in order to make them
cre of Jews.
differ from Jewish practice. The Beth Am in New Quarters
Temple Beth Am, Livonia's only
Glubb comments on this score: separation between the Muslims
"If the Jews of Medina had been and the Jews, however, was not Reform congregation, moved this
week
from the United Hebrew
due
to
divergences
over
religious
men of wide outlook and generous
wisdom, it is possible that they dogma. Except for the rejection of Schools building to 30025 Curtiss,
Muhammad
Livonia.
as
the
Messiah,
Juda-
might have discovered a method
High Holy Day tickets and mem-
of peaceful co-existence, for, iron- ism closely resembled Islam. The
ically enough, the Jews were to breach was due to the fact that bership information can be ob-
the
Jews
of
Medina
insisted
on
tained
by calling the temple, 476-
20072 W. 7 Mile ■ „,•,;,,,„,
become the allies of the Muslims
RE 3-4310
against the Christians for many pouring ridicule on the Prophet 4100, or Mrs. Philip Gersten, 474-
and
on
trying
1453.
to
make
him
and
years after the Apostle's death.
But how could the . Jews of Medina his message appear to be absurd.
be men of broadminded vision? The Messenger of God virtually
. . . They were themselves prob. eliminated the Jews of Medina
ably early Arab converts to Juda- because their activities were doing
OPENING SEPT. 22
ism and their daily lives in their injury to his mission.
"Once he had established un-
desert oasis were spent as market
gardeners or small artisans. It is questioned authority over the
true that there were among them Hejas, however, he did not perse-
rabbis and that many of them had cute them, and Jews continued to
an intimate textual knowledge of live in the area unmolested until
(previously the 7 Star Barber Shop)
the Pentateuch. But it was this they were evicted by Umar (a
very knowledge which was to violent opponent of Muhammad),
announces it's new location at
prove their ruin. They could not after the Apostle's death. It is
resist the temptation to show their interesting to note that, once the
superior cleverness by pointing Jews ceased to be a danger to the
out the factual inaccuracies of the survival of Islam, the two faiths
(Hem 121/2 Mite Rd.)
Apostle's version of the Old Testa- once again became allies against
ment stories. Thus they made the Christianity and were to remain
so
until
the
rise
same mistake as the satirists
of Zionism in the
(Arab poets who ridiculed Muham- 20th century. It is interesting to
Finest in Men's Hair Styling
mad)—they made the Messenger speculate whether the time-hon-
by John Accardo
of God look ridiculous by catching ored friendship between Judaism
him out on points of sdetail. Unpre- and Islam is to be attributed more
• Manicuring
pared to fight, they were foolish
• Special attention to children
enough to goad the Muslims to
ENROLL—EARN YOUR DEGREE
rage by their clever pinpricks."
of ,anal,. of Baia Mangan (5.111.11.),'MUtto of
Philibloroby
Gradvato
of
Rib!,
Phi-
The role of Judaizers, before losophy (GYRO.), Canso of Alstotanin
For Your Convenience, Please -
Muhammad, conversions to Jude-, Decay of Dianai
(0.0.). Clayton/ by Stott, Coo-
Gunn eon. raw ants for FREE
Call For Appointment — 354-3736
ism among Arabs, the emerging rnooadaco
11001(LET.
AMERICAN BIBLE INSTITUTE
strong role of Jewish communities 0/4.A.,
P.O. Iles 1744 Kenai City, Ile. 64114
and their destruction at the wrath •■■ •....m...111 ■ 10.1•1•1•• ■
Lai.4-
,• `Ithoteb• '

I CIGARS

1

•
•

No. 898

I
• •
•

I rabowst.K. I

- AT MICH. STATE
IN EAST LANSING

.

The Southfield Plaza Barber Shop

29734 Southfield Rd.