Muslims apologists for the now more than a century old war against the Jews who have restored a Jewish commonwealth to the land of Israel, often say that Jews and Muslims got along just fine before those mean, nasty Zionists managed to create division between the two Abrahamic faiths. They’re relying on the probability that the general public is at least somewhat aware of the history of Jew-hatred in Europe, culminating in the Holocaust, while being generally ignorant of the history of Muslim Jew-hatred. ‘We Muslims,’ the apologists say, ‘treated Jews well, not like the Christians in Europe.’
They can get away with saying that because much of the world’s image of the Jewish people is shaped by the prominence of Ashkenazi Jews, those Jews with ties to Europe, in the western world, and their families’ experiences in Europe. Ashkenazim, though, are literally only half of the story. Jews with ties to the Arab and Muslim world are known as Sephardim, from the Hebrew word for Spain, or Mizrachim, for the Hebrew word for Eastern. The majority of Israeli Jews, by the way, have at least one Mizrachi grandparent.
Bernard Lewis, the great scholar of the Muslim world, said that while the Muslims never treated Jews as badly as the Christians did, they also never treated Jews as well. There are no Muslim equivalents to the horrific and genuinely genocidal levels of mass murder of Jews like the Chmielnitzki pogroms in the Ukraine in the 1640s or the Holocaust in the 20th century. Muslims typically only killed Jews by the hundreds, not hundreds of thousands, like Europeans did. At the same time, there are no Muslim countries like Holland, which has treated Jews with respect for centuries.
Note that the apologists describe the golden age as Jews living under the rule of Muslims, not as Jews being equal to Muslims. Under Sharia law, Jews have the status of dhimmis, official second class citizens. Muslims will describe this as a protected status but only in so far as Jews (and Christians) cannot be compelled to become Muslims at the point of a sword, while heathens and idolators can be forced to convert. Dhimmis must pay special taxes, called jizya, that Muslims don’t have to pay. Essentially, it’s a “protection” racket.
Contrary to the notion that Jews and Muslims got along peacefully before Zionism, and putting aside the hassles of being dhimmis, the historical record shows a long story of Jews being persecuted with violence by Muslims, well before the establishment of the state of Israel or even the beginnings of modern political Zionism in the 19th century.
In Morocco, as far back as the eighth century, whole communities were wiped out by Idris the First. In 1033, about 6,000 Jews were murdered in Fez by a Muslim mob. In 1465, another massacre took place in Fez, which spread to other cities in Morocco. There were pogroms in Tetuan in 1790 and 1792, in which many children were murdered. Between 1864 and 1880, there were a series of attacks on the Jews of Marrakesh, and hundreds died. In 1903, there were pogroms in Taza and Settat, in which more than 40 Jews were killed.
In Mashad, Iran, in 1839 30 Jews were killed, and Jewish girls were abducted and forced to convert to Islam
Jews were killed in Fez in Morocco, in 1912; in Constantine in Algeria, in 1934; in Rabat in Morocco in 1934; in Gabes in Tunisia in 1941; in Aden in 1947, when 82 Jews were killed, hundreds of shops were destroyed; in Iraq in 1941, when at least 180 Jews were murdered and many others raped and injured, thousands of homes were also looted.
In Libya, 130 Jews were killed in 1945; in Aleppo in 1947, 75 Jews were said to have been murdered. In 1939, bombs were planted at a Cairo synagogue.
In 1840, the infamous Damascus blood libel led to the kidnapping and torture of dozens of Jewish children…
Other pogroms occurred in Aleppo in 1850 and 1875, in Damascus in 1848 and 1890, in Beirut in 1862 and 1874. In Cairo, Jews were set upon by mobs in 1844, 1890, and 1901-02, and in Alexandria in 1870, 1882 and 1901-07. In 1907, in Casablanca, 30 Jews were killed and many women raped. There were also a series of massacres in Algeria in 1805, 1815 and 1830, and in Libya in 1785. And so on. By the 1880s, the situation for Yemeni Jews was so bad, that many started to walk to Palestine to join European Jews there and 15,000 Yemeni Jews had arrived by the late 1930s.
The question must be asked, when Jews were killed by Arabs in Damascus in 1840, were the Arabs there aggrieved about the “Nakba” of 1948 or the “occupation” of 1967?
Source: The Jews driven out of homes in Arab lands - The Jewish Chronicle
muslim apologists are just antisemitic assholes who are too cowardly to admit it .
There - I fixed it for you ronnie .
-Nate
Ronnie saw the news about the arrest in Detroit of the savage that killed Samantha Woll and hope there will be peace.
A good friend of a different ethnicity which is not a favored group of the KKK once told me he preferred the outright hatred. Easier to spot who to avoid.