Yesterday, Thursday, June 5, 2008 during an interview on the National Public Radio Boston affiliate (WBUR) program "Here and Now," with Robin Young, author James Carroll opined with distressingly ignorant certitude,

"The Christian tradition of antisemitism has spread like a virus and it has been picked up—caught by segments of Arab, Islamic culture but one of the things to be quite aware of is that there is nothing endemic to the religion of Islam or to certainly the text of the Koran that leads to Antisemitism." [emphasis added].

I debunk this corrosive drivel at great length in The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, and in an essay on Koranic Antisemitism derived from the book.

Here is a very brief synopsis of the Koran’s virulent Antisemitism from my Hudson Institute lecture of May 21, 2008...