To: veronica
A good piece, although the Jews weren't nearly as well-off under Islamic rule as the author implies.
11 posted on
12/05/2003 1:05:02 PM PST by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Steve_Seattle
They weren't actively and widely persecuted by Muslims until fairly recently. At the turn of the 20th Century there were over 250,000 Jews in Baghdad. Due to persecution and the formation of Israel in 1948, there are fewer than 30 today.
22 posted on
12/05/2003 1:24:16 PM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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