re: #422 CuriousLurker

She wants to make Muslims responsible for the Holocaust & antisemitism, never mind that antisemitism stretches back to ancient Egypt and has a nasty, centuries-long history in Europe.

Or for that matter that antisemitism as we know it today—as opposed to the older type of discrimination that pretty much any minority group faced in ancient times—started well before Islam with the advent of Christianity and the drive for converts to the new religion.

The most vicious forms of European antisemitism like pogroms, blood libels, etc. really began to come into their own around the time of the Crusades, with many Jews fleeing to Muslim lands. Life for Jews in Muslim lands was far from perfect, but for the most part it wasn’t anywhere near as dangerous as living in Europe. Hell, even the Reformation that everyone is so proud of involved antisemitism. Has anyone taken a look at Martin Luther’s On the Jews and Their Lies treatise?

In the treaties he argues that their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness, afforded no legal protection, and these “poisonous envenomed worms” should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time. He also seems to advocate their murder, writing “[w]e are at fault in not slaying them”.

en.wikipedia.org

But people aren’t aware of that long history of ugliness, so the likes of Geller get away with their bullshit historical revisionism.