re: #84 Obdicut

I used to get really pissed off at the attempts to portray Islam as historically the enemy of Judaism. They were iffy, basically. The Christians? Those were the ones who, historically, oppressed the shit out of and massacred the Jews. The Christians hold the all-time antisemite record to this date. It is offensive as hell when people attempt to minimize that.

One very vicious Muslim hater by the name of Ploome Heinini claimed that the Rambam hated Muslims which was patently false by every scholar who has studied him. In fact, his family left Israel to move back to Egypt because of the terrible treatment of Jews by Christians in Israel as the time.

Mind you, some of the Muslim conquerors were just as vicious as the Christians, but not all. The Rambam found a better home among Muslims.