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Maybe because Jews never highjacked passenger planes and crashed them into office buildings killing 3,000 innocent civilians? Maybe because Palestinian Arabs belonging to Black September, not Jews kidnapped and killed Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972 Berlin? Maybe because Jews in America and Europe live peaceful, productive lives and don't demand all of society become as conservative as Arabs?Muslims do whenever they immigrate to foriegn lands? Maybe because Jews even without the vast wealth of oil in the Middle East have been able to make a developed country full of quiet citizens raising their families in a region of the world where most Muslims live in poverty, hate, conspiracy theories, and violence?

Jews don't threaten to kill everyone that isn't Jewish, while a small minority of Muslims do make such a threat and the vast majority of peaceful Muslims won't condemn the violent ones.

Since Westerners share very similar values as Jews it is easier to favor that group over the group that is so different and dangerous.

In Israel members of the radical party formed by Rabbi Meir Kahane get arrested for threatening the lives of Muslim visitors to the Dome of the Rock, or Al Aqsa Mosque. In Muslim countries, radicals that threaten Jews get elected President.

2006-08-22 11:52:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anthony M 6 · 1 1

because they both hate Islam ,and can favor the devil himself over Muslims.

2006-08-23 00:09:50 · answer #2 · answered by lily 5 · 0 1

Because Judaism dosent tell every other religion that they are wrong. Also Jews don't blow themselves up killing innocent people when they are mad.

2006-08-22 18:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by gurevich29 2 · 1 1

Islam was born fourteen centuries ago on the Arabian Peninsula. God's revelation of the Qur'an to Prophet Mohammed (may God bless him and grant him peace), together with the morality of Islam, taught the violent, barbaric, and ignorant people of the region peace, reason, and civilization.
At the beginning of the seventh century, Arabia was one of the world's most chaotic places. Many tribes lived on these lands, and each of them worshipped a different idol. They would declare war on each another, shed much blood, and even kill children for their misguided beliefs and idols. Their belief system exalted ruthlessness, hate, and violence instead of love, compassion, and kindness. Women were considered lower beings, and the poor and the slaves were ruthlessly exploited.
This dark and bloody world changed entirely with the arrival of Islam and its moral codes. Although the Arabs were the first to join Islam, many other nations soon embraced the light brought by its morality. The Qur'an's revelation enabled Muslims to achieve unequalled progress in science, culture, thought, and art. With the revelation of the Qur'an's first verse, the people of the region, who until this event had been stuck in a vicious circle of dark ignorance and bloody violence, were invited to read and think for the first time:

Recite: In the Name of your Lord Who created, created man from a clot of congealed blood. Recite: And your Lord is the Most Generous, He Who taught by the pen, taught man what he did not know. (Qur'an, 96:1-5)

The structure of Arab society began to undergo a complete transformation with the arrival of Islam. For instance, Arab tradition decreed the death of all prisoners of war, whereas our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace), guided by God's revelation, ordered such prisoners to be treated well and fed from the Muslims' own rations. The following verse reveals these Muslim qualities:

They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans and captives. (Qur'an, 76:8)

The only thing required of such prisoners was that if they could read and write, they had to teach these skills to the Muslims. Perhaps for the first time ever, Arabia was witnessing compassion, forgiveness, and civilization. As a result, it experienced one of its greatest periods of cultural advancement.
As the years passed, Islam's justice and high morality spread in waves across Arabia. The Muslims' fairness, honesty, and determination attracted many Arab tribes. The mighty Muslim army marched on Makkah in 630. Its idolatrous Makkans feared the vengeance that the Muslims would wreak upon them as retribution for their past cruelty. According to Arab tradition, the men of the defeated tribe were killed and the women and children enslaved. But our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) reflected God's mercy by announcing that no one in Makkah would suffer retribution and that no one was to be forced to accept Islam. This act of forgiveness and tolerance has attracted the attention of Western historians. In PBS documentary Islam:Empire of Faith, Michael Sells, a lecturer at Haverford University, relates our Prophet's (may God bless him and grant him peace) virtue in the following way:
When Mohammed came into Mecca, he not only did not carry out a bloody revenge, but actually embraced the very Meccans who had fought him for three years and attempted to annihilate him. It was very shocking to the people in his milieu. So within the very founding of a religion, one finds episodes of great generosity, often extraordinary acts of kindness and mercy.

2006-08-22 18:44:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 3

hummm maybe because the jewish faith has yet to kill someone in the name of their god, and because they don't seem to force their religion on others. they believe and let others be.

2006-08-22 18:46:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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