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To: COUNTrecount

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFtreatment.html

...MYTH

“Jews who lived in Islamic countries were well-treated by the Arabs.”

FACT

While Jewish communities in Islamic countries fared better overall than those in Christian lands in Europe, Jews were no strangers to persecution and humiliation among the Arabs. As Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis has written: “The Golden Age of equal rights was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam.”...


5 posted on 05/10/2013 10:20:53 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Try to enter Saudi Arabia with a Torah and see what happens...


12 posted on 05/10/2013 10:46:57 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn....)
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