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JUSTICE AND COMPASSION IN THE QUR'AN

As in every form of racism, anti-Semitism is an
ideology utterly foreign to Islam. A Muslim opposes all
forms of genocide, torture and violence, regardless of
religion, race and ethnical origins. A Muslim will never
support even the most minor attack on innocent Jews, in

the same way he would not approve of any cruel
treatment of a member of any other nation. On the
contrary, he will denounce it. In the Qur'an, those who
make mischief on earth, who subject people to cruelty and
those who kill people for no reason are denounced. Some
verses on this subject read as follows:
Seek the abode of the Hereafter with what Allah has
given you, without forgetting your portion of the
world. And do good as Allah has been good to you.
And do not seek to cause corruption in the earth. Allah
does not love corrupters. (Surat al-Qasas, 77)

Then, is it to be expected of you, if you were put in
authority, that you will do mischief in the land, and
sever your ties of kinship? Such are the people Allah
has cursed, making them deaf and blinding their eyes.
(Surah Muhammad, 22-23)
There are only grounds against those who wrong
people and act as tyrants in the earth without any right
to do so. Such people will have a painful punishment.
(Surat ash-Shura, 42)
In compliance with these commands of Allah, the

intellectual struggle against atheistic zionism should not
lapse into a kind of an "antagonism towards Jews," and
innocent people should not be subjected to such