The Christian West Persecuted And Expelled Jews While The Muslims Protected And Sheltered Them
By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
21 December
2023
The Zionist Jews Have Showed Ingratitude To The Muslims
Main
Points:
1. Christian
West tyrannised Jews historically.
2. Pope
Innocent III forbade any social transaction between the Christians and Jews in
1215.
3. In 1242, 20 cartloads
of Talmud were burned.
4. Philip
Augustus expelled Jews from France in 1182.
5. King Edward
banished Jews from England in 1290.
6. Philip IV
expelled them again from France in 1306.
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Photo: New Indian Express
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The ongoing
war between Israel and Hamas has brought to fore the ingratitude of the Jewish
nation to the Muslim of the Middle East, particularly Palestine. The Jewish
nation, Israel has been pounding Gaza and persecuting the Muslims of the West
Bank despite the fact that the Palestinian Muslims do not want to uproot the
Jews from the region. They only want to co-exist and cohabit with the Jews.
The Muslims
have always protected them and allowed them to settle in the territories ruled
by them when the western Christian kings and queens expelled them from France,
Spain and England. The French king even imposed Jizya-like taxes on them to
allow them to return to France.
Even
religious heads of Christians, Pope Innocent III and Pope John XXII drove a
wedge between the Jews and Christians During these years, the Muslims allowed
them to settle in their land. During the peak of Islamic rule, the Jews found
peace under the Islamic rule. The Ottoman king Sultan Bayazid allowed the Jews
to settle in his empire in 1492 after their massacre by Christians of Spain. In
the Ottoman empire, the Jews had 21 synagogues and 18 Talmudic colleges.
Even before
that, they enjoyed religious freedom in Baghdad in the 8th century. The Jews
had 23 synagogues.
It was the
Christians who persecuted and expelled Jews from the western countries in the
middle ages while the Muslims provided them land and protection because the
Quran enjoined on the Muslims to treat them well as the People of the Book.
During the 1930s, the Muslim cleric of Jerusalem Amin ul Husseini had suggested
to the German leaders to relocate Jews to Palestine.
Hitler was
another ruler who had persecuted Jews in Germany. The Holocaust of Jews occurred
during the Second World War in which 6 million Jews were said to have been
killed. During the Holocaust Muslims protected many Jews.
It is an
irony that the Christian West is supporting Israel against its worst aggression
in Gaza and defending Israel's war crimes against the Palestinians. The Israeli
nation is hell bent on expelling Palestinians from Palestinian. Worst, the IDF
is massacring the children and women deliberately and dumping them in ditches
in the most savage way.
A. Faizur
Rahman presents the history of the persecution of the Jews at the hands of the
Christians and the ingratitude of the Jews to the Palestinians.
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Israel’s
War On Palestine Is A Travesty Of History
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By A
Faizur Rahman
20th
December 2023
One of the
most horrifying aspects of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza—which the secretary
general of the Norwegian refugee council considers “among the worst assaults on
any civilian population in our time and age”—is that it is being unleashed on a
nation which is innocent of the atrocities Jews suffered in the past.
It was the
Christian West—the biggest patron of Israel today—which had historically
tyrannised the Jews. Historian Gerard Sloyan points out in his essay, ‘Christian
Persecution of Jews over the Centuries’, that modern anti-semitism originated
in “the church’s preaching and its catechising”. Arno Mayer argues in his book
Why did the heavens not darken? that the attack on Jews during the First
Crusade (1096-1099) “set a disastrous precedent, depositing a fatal poison in
the European psyche and imagination”.
The ‘fatal
poison’, of course, was the baseless accusation that Jews were responsible for
the crucifixion of Jesus which, according to scholar Solomon Grayzel, “consigned
them to perpetual servitude”. Grayzel’s study reveals how papal letters and
conciliar decrees urged Christian rulers to ensure “that the Jews will not dare
to raise their neck, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the
reverence of the Christian faith”. One such decree by Pope Innocent III in 1215
forbade any social or business interaction between Jews and Christians
throughout the Christian world. A consequence of this was the burning of 20
cartloads of the Jewish holy book Talmud in Paris in 1242.
Before
that, in 1182, Philip Augustus had expelled the Jews from France. They were
readmitted in 1198 after agreeing to pay a variety of extortionate taxes and
duties. In 1290, it was the turn of
Edward I to banish Jews from England. They went to France only to be purged
again in 1306 by Philip IV. Their misery, however, did not end there. Pope John
XXII in 1322 he evicted all of them from his sovereign territory, the Comtat
Venaissin. Meanwhile, Philip’s son Louis offered some respite by allowing Jews
back into France in 1315, but they were expelled again in 1394.
In 1391,
one of the worst anti-semitic pogroms in Jewish history was perpetrated in the
Iberian cities of Castile and Aragon as a precursor to the ouster of Jews from
Spain in 1492 on the orders of Christian monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. Their
infamous Alhambra decree cited Jewish attempts “to subvert and to draw away
faithful Christians from our holy Catholic faith” as the main reason for the
expulsion. The fleeing Jews were warned that the death penalty awaited them
“without trial, sentence, or declaration” if they returned.
As is
evident, it was the brazen misinterpretation of Christianity that engendered
these atrocities and ultimately led to the horrific holocaust during World War
II. But there was another interesting outcome of Christian anti-semitism—the
trust that developed between Jews and Muslims. This was brought out by the
British-American historian Bernard Lewis in his 1968 article, ‘The Pro-Islamic
Jews’. Lewis explained that European Jews looked back nostalgically to the
tolerance of mediaeval Islam because their Christian compatriots deprived them
of the freedom and equality they had enjoyed under Muslims. Endorsing this view
in his essay, ‘The Golden Age of Jewish-Muslim Relations: Myth and Reality’,
historian Mark Cohen affirms that the several centuries of the Islamic high
middle ages “were indeed a golden age” for the Jews. A more detailed account of
Muslim-Jewish conviviality can be found in historian Alan Mikhail’s recent
book, God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped The Modern World. Mikhail
dedicates an entire chapter to highlight the warmth with which Muslims welcomed
Jews after Christians expelled them. He writes, quoting a Jewish refugee, that
when all Christian nations were uprooting the Jews, the Ottoman empire (which
included Palestine) was the only Mediterranean locale where “their weary feet
could find rest”, thanks to Sultan Bayezit II’s 1492 decree that welcomed them
to his empire.
This helped
Jews establish in the Muslim empire “the only Jewish majority city for two
thousand years”—the port of Salonica, now the Greek city of Thessaloniki. Over
the next four centuries, Salonica grew into such a huge centre of Jewish
culture that it was called the ‘Jerusalem of the Balkans’. Cairo too became an
important centre of Sephardic learning, as did the Palestinian town of Safed
which boasted 21 synagogues and 18 Talmudic colleges. According to Benson
Bobrick, even 8th-century Baghdad had 10 rabbinical schools and 23 synagogues
and a Talmudic institute which “helped disseminate the rabbinical tradition
into southern Europe”. More recently, during the holocaust, some Muslims risked
their lives to protect Jews. In an exhibition in a New York synagogue in 2017 to
highlight this, holocaust survivor Johanna Neumann remarked: “What [the
Muslims] did, many European nations didn’t do.”
It was this
accommodative Islamic spirit that forced Palestinians to accept the inequitable
division of their country by the UN in 1947 even though they considered it
illegal. But despite this recognition of Israel’s right to exist on a large
portion of their land, the Palestinians are not being allowed to establish
their independent state on the remaining land.
If this
gross injustice defies a remedy it is because the Christian West continues to
uncritically back the Jewish state’s invocation of mythic theology to
subjugate, dispossess, starve and now obliterate Palestinians in total
violation of international law and Judeo-Christian values.
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(Views
are personal)
A Faizur Rahman, Secretary general, Islamic Forum
for the Promotion of Moderate Thought
Source: Israel’s
War On Palestine Is A Travesty Of History