Muslims are at it again—forcing the despised “other,” in this case, Jews, to kiss their feet.
On Dec. 1, 2022, two Palestinian teenagers accosted, threatened, and ordered a Jewish (Haredi) man to kiss their feet in Jerusalem’s Old City. They videotaped and posted the incident on TikTok, to the audio of an Arabic rapper who, among other vulgarities, employs the notorious Arabic insult kuss umak (“your mama’s vagina”), which was presumably directed at the Jew in question, as he kissed the hand and foot of one of the Muslims.
This is hardly the first incident of its kind. According to a Dec. 2 report devoted to this incident,
The phenomenon of Palestinians filming themselves assaulting or humiliating ultra-Orthodox residents sparked outrage and clashes last year, leading to several arrests. In one particularly viral video, a Palestinian was filmed pouring hot coffee on an Orthodox man, leading to a two-year prison sentence.
Nor is this despicable phenomenon limited to the Middle East. According to a 2109 report from Australia:
A 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate, while a five-year-old boy was allegedly called a “Jewish cockroach” and repeatedly hounded in the school toilets by his young classmates.… The older boy’s act of kissing another student’s shoes, under threat of being swarmed by several other boys, was filmed, photographed and shared on social media [image below]…. One of the boys who watched on was later suspended for five days for assaulting the Jewish student in the school locker room.
Some might argue that Muslim “grievances,” in the above cases, the Arab-Israeli conflict, is the driving force behind Muslims trying to degrade and humiliate Jews. In reality, however, this form of abject “obeisance” was always expected of non-Muslims, for no more of a “grievance” than that they were non-Muslims—infidels.
For example, in The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, an Englishman (d.1747) who wrote of his experiences in Morocco as an abducted slave, references to European slaves being compelled to kiss their Muslim master’s feet are not uncommon.
Sultan Muley Ismail—who enforced sharia and regularly prayed—went one step further, according to Pellow: Abducted Europeans were required to “pull off their shoes, put on a particular habit they have to denote a slave, and when they approach him fall down and kiss the ground at his horse’s feet.” Those not conforming to such abject behavior—the “lucky” ones—instantly lost their heads. The rest were slowly tortured in ways that beggar belief.
Perhaps this is the only “good news” regarding the recent, modern day foot kissing incidents. As vile as they may be, they underscore an important fact: few things are as reliably consistent as Muslim behavior—particularly the sort we are regularly assured has “nothing to do with Islam.” Otherwise, why does one keep finding the same “disquieting” behavior in regions that widely differ in both time and space, such as contemporary Israel and Australia, and premodern Morocco?
Incidentally, and as another parallel, Pellow and other European slaves in Africa were regularly and consistently called “Christian dogs”—including before they were beheaded by scimitars. This characterization of subhuman infidels as animals remains a fixture today, and for the same reason. For instance, another persecuted Jewish pupil, age 5, at the same aforementioned Australian school, was called a “Jewish cockroach.”
Such is the great irony: even in the minutest of details, and whether in word or deed, the negative behavior that Muslims exhibit today has a long and unwavering paper trail, one that crosses centuries and continents. The only difference—the only discontinuity—between now and then is how the West responds.
In both the recent incident in Israel, and the 2019 one from Australia, authorities would not even admit that an ideological factor—Islamic supremacism—might have motivated those Muslims who forced Jews to kiss their feet.
The disconnect is evident in another, especially ignoble manner: whereas Muslims have long forced non-Muslims under their power to kiss their feet, both figuratively and literally, today the man who holds an office that for centuries sponsored the West’s staunch resistance to Islam—the Catholic pope—willingly prostrates himself before and kisses Muslim feet, further reinforcing this abject relationship to Muslims who do not understand acts of humility.
If you told a European Catholic three hundred years ago that the Pope would kiss a muslim’s feet, they’d probably burn you at the stake.
At best they would confine you to a mental institution.
Which at the time were appropriately termed “madhouses.”
The Catholic Pope actually made this gesture recently ? That’s what I’m understanding from the text, but it’s difficult to apprehend!
Click on the link in the article and you can see the picture
One of my friends is a great fan of Islam. She has some school children of Muslim background, and thinks they are much nicer than many Christians. They even know about biblical figures like Mary, Jesus and Joseph. She calls the Muslim terrorists radical extremists, without a reference to Islam. The examples here of school children practicing these Muslim practices of demeaning non-Muslim children refutes what my friend thinks. How can school children be radical extremists? And the similarity of their practices to a long tradition of Muslim practice suggests they are acting like their Muslim fellow citizens act and promote.
Maybe your friend ought to read more of Mr. Ibraham’s work. She might change her mind. Or not.
Children only emulate behavior of those they respect or are forced to respect. That’s why children who grow up in homes with domestic violence often perpetuate it. It’s how they learn to deal with anger and fear. It’s the same thing with Islam. They learn early that apostasy is punished by death. The fear of death in children who understand it is profound. They will absolutely humiliate and punish anyone who lets them get away with it to prove their loyalty to the prophet (I didn’t capitalize that on purpose). Conversely, this earns them the respect of their Islamic peers and the cycle of abuse continues. It’s as much child abuse as parents beating each other in front of their children. Islam isn’t a religion. It’s a cult. If you can’t leave an organization without severe punishment, it’s a cult.
Please let your friend read this book, I read this book whilst living in Morocco many years ago.
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa’s One Million European Slaves Paperback – 9 May 2005
by Giles Milton (Author)
One fine/terrible Day The Lord God Almighty/Master of the Universe will rebuke and repay these perpetual-Isaiah 5:20 Islamists who humiliate, maim, rape, torture and kill the people of His two Covenants around the world. Thanks be to God for His eternal, holy justice.
it never ceases to amaze me that journalists refer to the catholic church as christian . it is pagan . even a small amount of research will reveal that it is not . this is the same crowd that burnt people at the stake for disagreeing with the pope and his pagan doctrine . the inquisition held by the catholic church murdered and tortured thousands . same as the church of england who imprisoned and tortured dissenters and then hounded them out of england . jeremiah ch. 7 verse 18 . the jewish nation was condemned for worshipping ” the queen of heaven ” a title given to mary who has obtained co redemptrix status which is heresy . anyone who really wants to know only has to listen to any number of sermons by john MacArthur on the catholic church to be informed . please mr. ibrahim stop referring to the catholic church as christian because theologically it is not . during the 7 year tribulation christians will be beheaded ,! which group currently has that as part of their mantra for unbelief ?
And kiss their Rings as well