Ayoon wa Azan (People Like These are the Scum of the Earth)

The following passage appears in the article Uncovering Early Islam: "The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), it argued that the hadith, the vast body of sayings and actions attributed to the Islamic prophet Mohammed, lacked historical validity. Rather than provide reliable details about Mohammed’s life, the hadith, Goldziher established, emerged from debates two or three centuries later about the nature of Islam." The article was written by Daniel Pipes, an American Likudnik proselytizer who is hostile to Arabs and Muslims, and who supported the war on Iraq and every American war for Israeli reasons, in which the lives of young Americans are sacrificed, like the Neo-conservatives did. Most of this group is made up of extremist Jewish Americans with one loyalty, to Israel. A month ago in this column, I wrote about the book Did Muhammad Exist?, by another Likudnik, Robert Spencer, who doubts the existence of the Prophet of God. Now Pipes comes along, to doubt the hadiths of the Prophet; these are second in importance for Muslims, after the Quran. The Prophet Muhammad Abdullah bin Abd al-Mutallib is the only prophet who has come to the light of history, and was the final prophet. The attempt to doubt his existence one day, and in his hadiths the next, cannot be separated. The Jewish religion is an invention and its prophets are a lie, and did not exist. There are no traces of them in our countries at all; thus, the enemies of Arabs and Muslims try to move the accusation from them to others. I go back to the first paragraph; the writer wants us to believe that a Hungarian Jew writing in German 132 years ago is the authority on hadiths, and his excuse is that he doubts their validity because they were written two or three centuries after the divine inspiration came down. Fine - I will use this logic to review what I know about Judaism, whose holy books were written 500 to 1,000 years after the lives of the supposed prophets. The reasons for doubting this religion are much greater that those ascribed by the Hungarian Jew to the hadiths. More importantly, the inspiration was recorded when it came down, and was memorized, and collected, when all of the witnesses were alive. As for Judaism, it is like an old man talking about what he saw of the Crusades, and these took place "only" 800 years ago, not a thousand. Writing the hadiths in the time of the Prophet of God was forbidden, out of fear of confusions arising between the hadiths and the Quran. The Hadiths began to be gathered around the mid-2nd century H.E.; the writers of them, like their books, are known individuals. The most accurate among them was al-Bukhari's Sahih, and Muslim' Sahih, followed by Abi Daoud's Sunan and al-Tarmadhi's Jami', and al-Nisa'i's Mujatabi. Al-Bukhari and Muslim adhered to the principle that they would not relate a hadith unless it was connected to a reliable source, throughout the entire chain, without deficiencies, and this was true for the ulama. Al-Bukhari selected around 4,000 hadiths from around 600,000 Hadiths from his time, while Muslim chose about the same number; he said there were 300,000 oral hadiths circulating in his day. I am aware that Muslim readers know all of this from the Quran, and the hadiths, but I am responding to those with a false religion, who attack Islam and Muslims; if they had not attacked Islam, I would not have attacked Judaism. Daniel Pipes works in an institution whose entire activity is directed against the interests of Arabs and Muslims, and tries to cover up the fascism and racism of the Israeli government, and its daily crimes against Palestinians. He is the founder of the Middle East Institute and edits Middle East Quarterly; Pipes established Campus Watch in 2002 after all American universities began to have student activities against Israel and its crimes. In 2003, George Bush selected Pipes for the board of the U.S. Institute for Peace, and Congress rejected the nomination. Bush then appointed him during a congressional recess, just as he did with the extremist John Bolton when he appointed him the United States ambassador to the United Nations. People like these are the scum of the earth.