re: #154 marjoriemoon

Well then you don’t know Jewish history. Jews would rather have lived in Muslim nations than Christian ones at that time. The Rambam was offered a job as the personal physician to the King of which Christian nation, I forgot (have to look it up), but decided to stay in Morocco for this very reason.

Of course there can be choices which are better than the worst and less than the best. I don’t deny what you describe; but excusing it is like excusing slavery because most slave owners were better than the worst.

Perhaps you are not actually excusing anything, but it could be read that way.