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I read The Dhimmi and several others of Bat Ye'or's works. The record of Islam as rulers is abysmal, and most people don't have a clue. The myths of the tolerant Arab civilization are just that: myths. The actual accomplishments of Islamic 'civilization' are trivial: all of the great advances attributed to the Arab world were the accomplishments of the peoples they conquered.

Islam is a blight on the world.

I read The Dhimmi and several others of Bat Ye'or's works.

You are a scholar and a gentleman. Am reading her book now, published 1980 in France. Revised English edition 1985. She was so far ahead of her time. One chapter of her book is "Jihad and Dhimma: Modern Formulations". If you don't know that the war against Israel is a Jihad to make these Jews dhimmis once more (or kill them), then you know nothing

The record of Islam as rulers is abysmal, and most people don't have a clue. The myths of the tolerant Arab civilization are just that: myths.

The Muslims were parasitical. They taxed the Jews to death and made sure their existence was one of humiliation. There were some bright spots but this was Jewish life in the Muslim Arab world.

Islamics are very hung up on humiliation. Being dissed. They make very sure they humiliate those they get an opportunity to lord over. One way they get their rocks off.