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The following are excerpts from a TV show featuring Syrian MP Muhammad Habash, which aired on Al-Deera TV on August 4, 2005.
Habash: One may ask: How does the Koran hold (modern Jews) responsible for killing the prophets? They didn't kill the prophets. Their fathers and grandfathers did, fifty generations ago. Brother, they are partly responsible because they do not condemn what their ancestors did. The proof is that the crime of killing the prophets is in their books, yet they have not renounced it. They should have said that those involved in killing the prophets were evil, sinners, and infidels. They should have cursed them. But they even study about them, as kings and a part of the heritage of the Israelites.
That is why they are accomplices. A nation that does not correct its history, and does not refer to history according to the facts, a nation that does not correct its history and becomes aware of it - is, in fact, an accomplice to this sin. The Koran says: "Why did you kill the prophets of Allah in the past, if you were believers?" If your faith was true, you should have renounced any crime in the history of the Israelites, whether it was the killing of a prophet, or of any other innocent man. You should have renounced it.
But when you read stories about the prophets in their books, how they occupied lands and slaughtered people - they nevertheless consider these killers to be prophets, even though they were killers. How can a man be a prophet yet live his life like this?
Brothers, I am filled with shame when I read about Allah's prophet Solomon or Allah's prophet David in the Torah. David had 99 wives, and coveted the wife of Uriah, son of John, the 100th wife. Solomon had a thousand women - 700 wives and 300 concubines. His wives, who came from Moab and Amon, brought idols into the Temple and worshiped them. Is this the way of a prophet? And still, the Israelites have not renounced it.
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