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Loay Alshareef: UAE Based Saudi Born ‘Peace Activist & Global Speaker & Muslim Zioni$t ‘Tells Them ‘There's No Antisemitism In The Koran'

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Loay Alshareef
لؤي الشريف
Alshareef with US ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides in Dubai, 2022
Born	November 11, 1982(age 43)
Citizenship	Egypt/Saudi Arabia
Occupation	Peace activist/Global speaker
Website	Instagram YouTube

Loay Alshareef (Arabic: لؤي الشريف; born 11 November 1982) is a UAE-based Saudi-born Egyptian activist who advocates for the Arab world to normalise relations with Israel.

Biography

Alshareef is a Saudi born, was born and raised in Jeddah, in a deeply religious household, to an Egyptian father and a Saudi mother.[1] He grew up thinking that God wanted him to hate Jews and Christians.'...

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Loay Alshareef's Cynical Taqiyya Theater on 'Muslim Antisemitism'

MAY 25, 2026 12:00 PM BY ANDREW BOSTOM LEAVE A COMMENT

Self-proclaimed and much ballyhooed "Muslim Zionist" Loay Alshareef, at the May 26, 2026 "The World Symposium Against Antizionism" in Toronto, Canada, made this summary assessment of Islamic antisemitism (also embedded below):

"But when I opened my eyes, I realized the problem is with Islamic antisemitism. It comes from some texts, yes, some texts that are attributed to Prophet Muhammad and they are not in the Qur'an, that [the texts] I don't believe in, like the Jew will hide behind the tree at the end of days. I conquer this in saying, well, you believe this will happen in Islam, according to us, when Jesus comes back. What if a tree says, there's a Jew behind me, come and kill him, and that Jew turned out to be Jesus? So this is also problematic."

Problematic indeed.

Mr. Alshareef's two essential statements about the Qur'an and what he refers to glibly as "some texts attributed to the Prophet Muhammad"—namely Islam's canonical traditions or hadith—were untrue and profoundly deceptive. They had no place in an honest discussion of Islamic antisemitism and in fact appear to be deliberate, calculated examples of taqiyya or sanctioned Islamic dissimulation.

First, the implication is clear that the Qur'an, according to Mr. Alshareef is devoid of antisemitism, i.e., Jew-hatred. That notion is patently false. The Qur'an is rife with Jew-hatred beginning with the opening sura or chapter 1, "The Fatiha" which literally means, "The Opening." Verse 7 of this chapter (1:7) warns Muslims not to follow the path of those who incurred Allah's anger. Islam's prophet Muhammad identified the Jews as those who incurred Allah's anger in a canonical tradition (hadith; Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2954), and 90% of Islam's greatest Qur'anic commentators from the 7th century through the 21st century, share that interpretation.

Professor Andrew Rippin, late (d. 2016) Canadian doyen of contemporary Qur'anic studies, translated the earliest commentary on Qur'an 1:7 by Ibn Abbas (d. 687). Asserting that Islam represents "the straight path" in Qur'an 1:6–1.7, Ibn Abbas, "the father of Qur'anic exegesis (interpretation)," and ostensibly a contemporary "infant prodigy" companion of Islam's prophet Muhammad, provides this gloss on the reference to "wrath" in Qur'an 1:7:

" 'Not those against whom You have sent your [Allah's] wrath': …the religion of the Jews against whom You [Allah] have been wrathful and have abandoned…"

Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, a major contemporary Qur'anic commentator, and Grand Imam of Sunni Islam's most authoritative religious education center, and near Vatican equivalent, Al-Azhar University, from 1996 until his death in 2010, provided this modern interpretation of Qur'an 1:7 in his "A Measured Interpretation of The Qur'an":

"Those who have incurred Allah's anger are the Jews…This interpretation comes from Muhammad, in a tradition narrated by Imam Ahmad (Ibn Hanbal) in his Musnad and Ibn Habban (al-Busti) in his Sahih. Some exegetes (Qur'anic commentators) say those who have incurred Allah's anger [the Jews] knew the truth but departed from it out of stubbornness and denial."

It is also critical to understand that Islam's prophet Muhammad further referred to this opening chapter of the Qur'an, including verse 1:7, as "the greatest sura in the Qur'an," and pious Muslims are instructed to repeat all 7-verses of this sura 17-times daily as part of their 5 requisite prayer sessions, and the subdivisions ("every rak'ah") of those prayers.

Tantawi's earlier opus on the Jews, "The Children of Israel in the Qur'an and Traditions,"—his 1968 Al-Azhar University Ph.D. thesis—rivets on the Qur'anic themes of the Jews as "sowers of corruption and discord" (Qur'an 5:64), rightfully condemned to permanent abasement for their transgressions against Allah, including slaying some of Allah's prophets (Qur'an 2:61 repeated at 3:112). Here is a brief litany of additional negative Qur'anic qualities and behaviors of the Jews Tantawi highlights in this academic tome, emphasizing their deep-seated permanence:

"The reader of the Noble Qur'an will clearly see that it has depicted many of the inappropriate conducts, despicable manners and cunning and crooked behaviors that the Children of Israel indulged in. It has branded them with disbelief (Q4:46), ingratitude (Q 45:16–17), egotism (Q 2:87, 2:41), cowardice (Q 2:96, 59:13), deceit (Q 2:75), rebellion (Q 5:24, 5:64), transgression (Q 5:62), cruelty (Q 2:74), deviance (2:135), hastening to transgression and aggression (Q 5:70–71), unjustly consuming people's wealth (4:161), and many more of the vices that are recorded in the Noble Qur'an. They therefore earned Allah's displeasure , were stripped of Allah's mercy and compassion, and they were stricken with disgrace and misery (Q 2:61, 3:112). These vices that the Noble Qur'an recorded can be clearly seen anywhere and throughout the ages. The passage of time has only made these vices more ingrained and rooted in them."

As Al-Azhar Grand Imam, during 2002 Tantawi castigated the Jews in public using the Qur'anic epithet "apes and pigs," i.e., Qur'an 5:60, re-affirming his academic interpretation of this verse in both his 1968 Ph.D. thesis and subsequent full Qur'anic commentary. Moreover, Tantawi's ultimate Islamic prototype for public humiliation of the Jews with the use of this Qur'anic epithet ("apes," see also Qur'an 2:65 and 7:166, and/or "apes and pigs," 5:60) is Islam's prophet Muhammad himself. According to the earliest and most respected sacralized biography of Muhammad, or "sira," by Ibn Ishaq, while besieging the Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza, Muhammad addressed these Jews with menacing, hateful derision, "You brothers of monkeys, has Allah disgraced you and brought His vengeance upon you?" Another early Muslim biographer of Muhammad, Ibn Sa'd [d. 845], reports that Muhammad stated, "brothers of monkeys and pigs, fear me, fear me!"

The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia is a modern compendium of analyses written by 43 Muslim and non-Muslim mainstream academic experts, edited by Oliver Leaman, and published by Routledge, New York, 2006. These excerpts from p. 614 serve as a "summary verdict"—consistent with the previous evidence marshalled—on how Muslims and non-Muslims, both, are to understand Qur'an 1:7. These contemporary Islamic Studies experts also note how Qur'an 1:7 is linked to other pejorative Qur'anic depictions of the Jews, consistent with those described by late Grand Imam Tantawi:

"The Prophet [Muhammad] interpreted those who incurred Allah's wrath as the Jews…The Jews, we are told killed many of their prophets and through their character and materialistic tendencies [usurious 2:275, 4:161; greedy/hedonistic 2:96; envious 2:109; hard-hearted 2:74; liars 2:78] have contributed much to moral corruption, social upheaval and sedition in the world [Qur'an 5:32–33; 5:64] …[T]hey were readily misled and incurred both Allah's wrath and ignominy [2:61; 2:90; 3:112]."

Second, and worse still was Mr. Alshareef's egregious misrepresentation of Islam's well-characterized and accepted (by Muslim authorities classical and modern) end of times theology (eschatology) as described primarily in the hadith. This material is viscerally antisemitic.

Muslim eschatology highlights the Jews' supreme hostility to Islam. Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjâl—the Muslim equivalent of the Anti-Christ—or according to other traditions, the Dajjâl is himself Jewish. The official entry on "The Dajjal" in the Encyclopedia of Islam (as "al-Dadjdjal, by Belgian scholar Armand Abel), states he is "A giant, false prophet, king of the Jews…he [the Dajjal] would perish at the hands of Jesus [i.e., Isa, the Muslim Jesus]." Isa, this Muslim Jesus, notwithstanding Loay Alshareef's mendacious claim is neither a Jew nor a Christian but a full-throated Muslim, who in addition to killing the typically Jewish Dajjal, is the destroyer of Christianity!

At his appearance, other traditions state that the Dajjâl will be accompanied by seventy thousand Jews from Isfahan wrapped in their robes and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjâl is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered—everything will deliver them up except for the so-called gharkad tree. Thus, according to several canonical hadith if a Jew seeks refuge under a tree or a stone, these objects will be able to speak to tell a Muslim: "There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him!"

Here are examples of these hadith:

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger said: "The Dajjal would be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan wearing Persian shawls."

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: "The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews."

These hadith are cited not only in the Hamas Covenant (article 7), and by its affiliated clerics, they are referenced ubiquitously, worldwide. Mainstream authoritative Al-Azhar University theologians and garden variety American imams across the U.S., many of whom received training at Al-Azhar, continue to invoke these traditions as a call for a jihad genocide of the Jews, at present.

Mr. Alshareef was invited, ostensibly, to provide honest—hope against hope, maybe even sincere, mea-culpa-based education—to a primarily Jewish audience craving such candor. Instead, he engaged in taqiyya—"sacralized" Muslim dissimulation—purposely obfuscating and trivializing the existential threat to Jews posed by doctrinal Muslim antisemitism.

Finally, due in no small part to the canonical antisemitism Mr. Alshareef chose to ignore or dissimulate about, the two Muslim societies he remains deeply connected to, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to hard 2024 ADL survey data, exhibit extreme antisemitism prevalences of 92% and 91%, respectively. Mr. Alshareef of course neglected to cite those data.

This article has been cross-posted with the author's permission from AndrewBostom.net.

https://jihadwatch.org/2026/05/loay-alshareefs-cynical-taqiyya-theater-on-muslim-antisemitism

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