A Little History.

One often wonders why there is quite so much hatred of the Jews within Islam. Although this is by no means universal, it is certainly widespread and most clearly seen amongs the 'jihadists' who today do not accept the rights of Israel to exist as a nation.

It all goes back to the violent squabbles which were an integral part of life in and around Medina when the increasingly powerful Mohammed arrived there in 622.

A mishmash of Jewish believers - some heretical in the extreme - were scattered around in at least twenty identifiable groups.

In the politics of the day, it was no great surprise that alliances switched and changed resulting in a number of occasions Jewish groups were against Mohammed - and paid a dreadful price for having been so.

Opposition to Mohammed was clearly 'not to be tolerated' and the roots of Islamic hatreds are certainly to be found there.