re: #182 Naso Tang

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.

You don’t seem to know the history and you’re making assumptions.

Jews being allowed to live as JEWS, they can speak their language, dress, and pray without being persecuted is what they wanted. The Muslims were ok with that, they just had to pay a tax to do it. Today that would be insane, but during the dark ages it was preferable than being beaten, killed or starved off your land.

There was a woman who posted on LGF a longggg time ago who was a Muslim hater with all the depth of her soul. Wished them all dead. I made the comment once that the war between Muslims and Jews was so odd to me since we share so much of the same culture. She pointed me to an article, an interpretation of the Rambam where he preferred Christianity over Islam because we shared a bible. That was patently untrue, I found out later after actually reading the Rambam’s history.

I’m not pointing a finger at Catholics or Christians. It’s all been over for 100s of years, but history IS history and I won’t rewrite it.