Islam’s basic texts, the Quran and the Hadith, are full of chastisement for Jews. The Jews are regarded as Islam’s numero uno enemy. It’s difficult for a Muslim, conditioned as they are by the popular lores, to have an objective view of Jews. In a left-handed compliment to the Jews’ intellectual excellence, Muslims demonise them for their conspiratorial skills. ‘Jewish conspiracy’ is one of the main tropes of Muslim popular culture, and most of the calamities in the history of Islam are blamed on it. So much so that the majority Sunni sect regards Shi’ism as the conspiracy of a...