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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Another Jack
De joden zijn dus gedurende een aantal jaren niet vernederd en gediscrimineerd door de moslims.
En dat moeten we dan vieren?
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Ze hielpen zelfs de moslims om Spanje te bevrijden van de barbaarse Christelijke onderdrukkers. Eeuwen van vrijheid en vredig naast elkaar leefden volgden.
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In Spain, under the Christian Visigoths, Jews were often beaten and executed. Throughout the 7th century, they were subjected to ruinous taxes and often were forced to convert to Christianity. With the Moslem invasion of Spain in 711, Jews participated in their success.
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Tot de barbaren weerkeerden en ze de moslims achterna gingen.
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The destruction of Muslim Spain, writes Karen Armstrong in The History of God, was “fatal for the Jews. In March 1492, a few weeks after the conquest of Grenada, the Christian monarchs gave Spanish Jews the choice of baptism or expulsion. Many of the Spanish Jews were so attached to their home that they became Christians, though some continued to practice their faith in secret … Some 150,000 Jews refused baptism, however, and were forcibly deported from Spain; they took refuge in Turkey, the Balkans and North Africa. The Muslims of Spain had given the Jews the best home they ever had in the diaspora, so the annihilation of Spanish Jewry was mourned by Jews throughout the world as the greatest disaster to have befallen their people since the destruction of the Temple in CE 70.”
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