Kinship Between Islam and Judaism

The identity and kinship between Judaism and Islam are apparent:

- Torah = Koran
- Talmud = Hadith
- No pig eating
- Male circumcision mandated
- Head-bobbing Torah memorization = Head-bobbing Koran memorization
- Arabic and Hebrew are virtually identical languages derived from a common ancestral language
- Jews and Arabs genetically belong to the same ethnic group called Semites. According to biblical fiction, both peoples descend from one man, Abraham.
- Jews worshiped the Semitic god El (later renamed Yahweh). The name “EL” is a variant spelling of Muslim ALLAH
- Prohibition of representing deities (God, prophets, etc.): No theater, no paintings, no sculptures, etc.
- Both celebrate the fictional story of Abraham's near slaughtering of his son, with a minor dispute over whether the sacrificial son was Ismael or Isaac.
- Wearing skullcaps

- From a historical perspective, Islam was for Mohammad a return to his own Jewish-dominated environment. He may have been Jewish himself or at least had Jewish ancestry [Read the very interesting research by Ibrahim Omer on the Prophet's Hebraic lineage: [https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/07/29/exploring-prophet-muhammads-hebraic-descent/]. Quoting from this reference:

While the Qur’an firmly identifies the Israelites as chosen “above the nations of the world,” there is no Qur’anic verse identifying the Arabs as chosen. Furthermore, one of the very few Qur’an verses that refers to Arabs is disparaging:

The Arabs of the desert are the worst in disbelief and hypocrisy, and are least inclined to acknowledge the limits that Allah has revealed to his Rasool [Messenger]. Allah is All-knowledgeable, All-Wise. [9:97]

In this context, Muhammad is distinguishable from the Arabs through a unique Ishmaelite descent sharing a Hebraic heritage with the Israelites.

It is also reported that he was influenced by a Christian monk living near Mecca, which was home to many Jewish tribes, many of whom had converted to Christianity by virtue of the proximity of the Arabian peninsula to the Christian Byzantine world. Mecca had a bishop at the time. Mohammad may have rebelled against the growing encroachments by the Byzantine Christian empire after the center of power had moved from Rome to Constantinople just north of the Arabian peninsula. It must have been shocking for him to see his pure monotheistic Jewish-based beliefs "distorted" by Christianity with its multitudes of deities (Al-shirk, الشرك, Association) and representations thereof in icons, statues etc.

Indeed, Mohammad may have seen in Christianity a deterioration of the Jewish creed, particularly in its polytheistic attributes (Trinity, Father, Son, Ghost, Mother of God, Son of God, saints as smaller gods, etc…), which Muslims refer to as “Association”, and a deviation from the pure monotheism of the Jewish creed. So he set out to return to the roots, and shunned all what Christianity, a mostly Western construct, had elaborated around the message of Jesus. This return to the roots can be seen in the similarities I listed above between Judaism and Islam.

Islam was a return to Judaism, just as Protestantism was a return to Biblical text-based teachings and a reformation-adaptation of Catholicism.

- In sum, in their ancient history, Jews and Muslims, Hebrews and Arabs are one and the same people. The fallacy of a "return" to the promised land consists in the fact that modern Jews have little to do with the ancient Hebrews, since they descend mostly from relatively recent (10th-15th centuries) Eastern European converts to Judaism. Haven't you noticed their blond and red hair, their blue-green eyes, their strange furry Russian hats and coats? These are not what anyone in the Arabian desert would wear... Furthermore, there are Asian, Indian and African Jews, etc. Most of these ethnicities are not Semitic peoples. Overall, modern Jewish Israelis are physically no different from white caucasian European westerners. The so-called "return" to Palestine is therefore nothing more than a British "colonial" enterprise that sought to invade, seize someone else's land, evict them into refugee camps and surrounding countries, and establish a pure white European colony (now called Israel) in the heart of the Near East. The greedy English crooks had done the same with South Africa to facilitate their trade routes. In Palestine, they implanted the colony of Israel to be close to the nascent oil fields further afield in Arabia.