Islamic Tahrif Began With The Samaritans – OpEd

Religious charges of Tahrif, the corruption of other people’s sacred scriptures, did not begin with Islam; they began with Judaism and Christianity. Rabbi Elazar ben Yossi HaGelili who lived in the first half of the 2nd century C.E. said: “I said to the Cuthite scribes: You falsified the Torah and gained nothing from that....