Qatari official: Jews are murderers of prophets; October 7 is only a ‘prelude’
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Essa Al-Nassr, member of the Gulf state’s legislative body and a brigadier general at the Emiri Guard, gets ovation as he makes bigoted accusations against Jews and promises the end of Israel.

Essa Al-Nassr, a member of the Qatari legislative Shura council, spoke on Monday at an Arab League session, received ovation making bigoted accusations against Jews and promising the end of Israel.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    274·
    6 months ago

    From the article:

    The accusation of Jews as ‘killers of prophets’ is a well-known antisemitic trope made in several Islamic texts, which is understood by many, including Al-Nassr himself, as a charge against the entire Jewish people valid for eternity.

    This allegation is reminiscent and perhaps reflective of the charge of deicide by which Jews were accused in classical Christian texts.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      114·
      6 months ago

      valid for eternity

      I’m pretty sure the sun is going to engulf the Earth in 5 billion years. There probably won’t be any Jews left by then because humans would have evolved into something else by then anyway.

      Maybe Allah should be reconsulted.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          31·
          6 months ago

          I don’t think we’re at the point where we’re going to wipe out the species entirely. I think it’s likely that even a global thermonuclear war would result in enough pockets of survivors for the species to continue evolving (with quite serious selection pressure at that point) even if society as a whole lies in unrecoverable ruin.

          My searching for minimum viable population size puts it all over the map, although the general consensus seems to be 50 people. But who knows? The California condor has gone from a low of 22 individuals to over 500 in just a handful of generations.

          Anyway, I can certainly see 50 humans on some remote part of the planet surviving such a catastrophe.

          Civilization? Maybe not. Maybe those 50 humans would evolve into something less intelligent and less able to achieve the level of technology we are able to achieve. There’s no reason selection always has to favor intelligence.

          • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            I agree. I actually think the only things that could legitimately wipe out humanity are cosmic things we have no control over and it’d have to be so significant that there’s little chance of it actually happening. (Until the sun’s red giant phase, anyway.)

          • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            My guess is there’ll be a very few Indigenous enclaves that will survive, if for no other reason than they fundamentally understand what community is and how to keep it strong.

            Our Westernized ideology that “only the strongest win” doesn’t work in an end-of-the-world scenario.