A Jewish orientalist expressed visceral hatred of Christianity as more oppressive than Islam

Evidence

In this abominable religion, which invented the Christian blood libel, which puts its own best sons to the rack, they want to entice away the believers in the one and only Jehovah—in Muslim lands. This is an insolence of which only Christianity, the most abominable of all religions, is capable. It has no forehead to become aware of the insolence that forms its historical character. The forehead of a whore, that is the forehead of Christianity. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 373 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A critical scholar of Judaism wept uncontrollably in a synagogue he despised; A pioneering Jewish orientalist embraced Islam while remaining an observant Jew; Jewish orientalists were driven by sectarian grievances against Christianity, not colonial projects — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 377 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• A Jewish scholar denounced Christianity with extraordinary venom. #corroborates (0.93) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 373