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From what i understand, at the time this thing was made, Islamic society was more advanced and way better for jews than Christian Europe.
by hersko 3y ago
From what i understand, at the time this thing was made, Islamic society was more advanced and way better for jews than Christian Europe.
- myth_drannon 3y agoRight, while the Christian Europe was amidst a Dark Ages and was torturing and burning Jews and others, Islam was in its Golden Age period. Too bad it was short and Mongol hordes ended it, leaving a significant mark on the Islamic culture. Just realized we are witnessing at the moment two wars (there are more, but these two just get significant news coverage) by cultures who were scarred by Mongols - Russia and Islamic Empire
- gattilorenz 3y agoThe idea of "dark ages" is a myth (pun with the username intended), but if anything it applies to the early medieval age, which is exactly when anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe was... not very common, since persecution of Jews started later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism
- cess11 3y agoYes. And zionism as a global political force is in large part, possibly mainly, funded and promoted by christian zionists, and not by jews. Comment above implies a dichotomy between arab and jew which is wildly ahistorical. To an extent the migration of jews to Israel from arab countries post-WWII was done by Israel, infamously the 'magic carpet' from Yemen for example. As an aside, the urge among zionists to claim that muslims are the worst, OG colonizers is probably related to zionism being an explicitly colonial project, as stated by pretty much every influential early zionist. Cecil Rhodes was begged to help out due to his experience in this area, and the intimate relation between apartheid South Africa and Israel was in part made possible due to this similarity.