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Jihad isn’t just for Muslims

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Published: 8 December 2015

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Religious war, in the Maccabean era and in our time - Anshel Pfeffer - Haaretz 04.12.15
In the terms of polite Western debate, if you point out the obvious – that the great monotheistic religions are not predisposed to peace and brotherhood, you are immediately branded either as an Islamophobe or a militant atheist, or both. But it’s not only Islam… The Hasmoneans were traditionalist Jewish zealots – they killed Jewish Hellenists before they had enough power to take on the Seleucid Empire.

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