re: #513 Obdicut

No, they really wouldn’t. I know my own family history, thanks.

You and your family are hardly a significantly-sized sample of the world’s Sephardim-Mizrahim. JJAC and Shas are far more representative, and I might add far better-informed.

There’s historical debate on it, sure.

There’s no more “historical debate” about the facts of the Jewish naqba than there is “historical debate” about facts of the the Holocaust.

But I am comfortable saying it was better than the treatment by the Christians during that time period.

More evidence of ignorance. It was the Christian colonial powers in the past several centuries which were the brakes upon the enforcement of Jewish dhimmitude in the Muslim world. That dhimmitude included but was not limited to semi-apartheid, restriction to ghettoes, distinctive or humiliating clothing, lesser legal rights, inferior status, insecurity and precarious position, and (last but not least) pogroms.

The Englightenment led to Jewish emancipation and near-equality in a good portion of the Christian countries (several western European countries, USA, Australia, Canada); not so in the Muslim countries, where medieval attitudes continued.

True, the Muslim world never constructed gas chambers - but then, neither did Holland or the UK. And the enthusaism of the Muslim world for the final solution is well-documented.

So, once again, learn a bit of history before waxing lyrical about mythical Muslim-Jewish coexistence. As suggested, Bat Ye’or’s works, and Bataween’s blog, are a good place to start.