even Wikipedia, which tends liberal, admits it was a mixed bag, with occasional massacres. And Jews and Christians had many restrictions, and had to pay “jizra”.
...besides, if you look at the treatment of women, the 70 million plus Hindus killed (”Hindu Kush”), and much too much to list here, in 1300 years of plunder rape conquest etc., saying that occasionally they were nice to productive people who were paying disproportionate taxes, is like Hitler being nice to children and dogs.
An order of magnitude more Africans died in the eastern slave trade, than west. adb means both black and slave.
The Quran is by definition racist, and sexist. not a matter of interpretation. Muhammad (pbuh) OWNED black slaves himself. and took a captive woman as property, after a battle in which her husband was killed.
and he is considered the most perfect man, to emulate...
yes, some Muslims are nice. Some treated Jews nice, in Turkey, and Spain. but they were NOT following the Quran. they were like Catholics who support abortion.
the Quran SPECIFICALLY forbids even being friends with a kuffir.
so if a Muslim was friendly with a Jew (or Christian), they are either violating their own religion’s teachings, or they are practicing taquiyya...
Note the early example of the “blood libel”,
in a sample of what Wikipedia says about Jews in the Ottoman Empire:
There was a massacre of Jews in Baghdad in 1828.[26] In 1839, in the eastern Persian city of Meshed, a mob burst into the Jewish Quarter, burned the synagogue and destroyed the Torah scrolls, and it was only by forced conversion that a massacre was averted.[24] There was a massacre of Jews in Barfurush in 1867.[26]
Concerning the life of Persian Jews in the middle of the 19th century, a contemporary author wrote:
...they are obliged to live in a separate part of town... for they are considered as unclean creatures... Under the pretext of their being unclean, they are treated with the greatest severity and should they enter a street, inhabited by Mussulmans, they are pelted by the boys and mobs with stones and dirt… For the same reason, they are prohibited to go out when it rains; for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans… If a Jew is recognized as such in the streets, he is subjected to the greatest insults. The passers-by spit in his face, and sometimes beat him… unmercifully… If a Jew enters a shop for anything, he is forbidden to inspect the goods… Should his hand incautiously touch the goods, he must take them at any price the seller chooses to ask for them.[27]
In 1840, the Jews of Damascus were falsely accused of having murdered a Christian monk and his Muslim servant and of having used their blood to bake Passover bread or Matza. A Jewish barber was tortured until he “confessed”; two other Jews who were arrested died under torture, while a third converted to Islam to save his life. Throughout the 1860s, the Jews of Libya were subjected to what Gilbert calls punitive taxation.
In 1864, around 500 Jews were killed in Marrakechand ...
Um, I was referring specifically to the Ottoman Turks, not the rest of Islam.