re: #217 SanFranciscoZionist

Medieval Muslim Spain was a very good place to be a Jew, relatively speaking. The medieval Muslim world in general was very open to Jews. Turkey, from the fifteenth century on was home to a prosperous Jewish community that was, in some cases, aggressively courted. That community prospered into the twentieth century.

All that is true, but the exact opposite is equally true. Entire Jewish populations wiped out. Witness Acra.