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    As an atheist I’m far from being an Islam defender but a special tax for “book religions” other than Islam and bans on certain jobs isn’t genocide and really not an excuse to displace or even murder a Muslim population who wasn’t even the ruling class that made those laws in the first place.

    Islam isn’t treating Judaism and Christianity the way it would treat polytheists like Hindus. Now that’s a whole other can of worms but Palestinian genocide is inexcusable no matter how much anyone tries to justify it belittle it.

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      If you don’t see having to choose between conversion or death, with hundreds of thousands killed, as genocide, what would you call it?

      What about being killed in the street for wearing shoes as a jew?

      What about legally being allowed to genocide jews because one was rumoured to have struck a muslim woman?

      That’s a strange idea of religions living peacefully together

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        What about legally being allowed to genocide jews because one was rumoured to have struck a muslim woman?

        That’s a bullshit lie. There was no Jewish genocide “because one was rumoured to have struck a muslim woman”. Either you don’t know what a genocide is and actively decide to stay uninformed or you’re spreading propaganda. The only Jewish genocide happened in Europe at the hands of Nazis. Scattered instances of violent crimes are abhorrent but not genocide. Equating both borders on Holocaust denial because it belittles actual genocide.

        PS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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          So you think historians are lying about what happened under, for instance, the Almohads?

          It’s about your bs claim that jews were generally having a great time living under islamic regimes

          Ironically you pointing towards the nazis is the whataboutism here

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            So you think historians are lying about what happened under, for instance, the Almohads?

            [citation needed] specifically for a genocide after a single case of domestic violence.

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              You’re conflating and misrepresenting two of the examples I gave. I wonder why.

              I gave you the link these examples come from five posts up. If you can’t be bothered to spend five minutes reading that, why are you so invested in this conflict (and discussion)?

              Here’s a bonus one to quench your thirst for whataboutism, from the same article:

              He compelled them to wear distinguishing garments, with a very noticeable yellow cloth for a head-covering; from that time forward the clothing of the Jews formed an important subject in the legal regulations concerning them.

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                I gave you the link these examples come from five posts up.

                Nothing about a genocide against Jews in there. You probably meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1033_Fez_massacre which was obviously horrible but A) that’s not genocide, B) was part of a wider conflict in which plenty of Muslims killed each other as well, C) was on a different continent, D) 900 years before anything modern Israel, so totally unrelated different ethnic groups living without much beef in the Western Asian strip of land that’s the actual topic here.

                Really shows how desperate you are at justifying a modern genocide when you have to reach almost 1000 years back into the past to find something that fits your agenda.

                from the same article

                Nope, the following line is not in the “History of Moroccan Jews” article. That line is from a different article from a non-NPOV source and that one also doesn’t mention any genocide at all and even if it would, still not a justification of the modern genocide.

                He compelled them to wear distinguishing garments, with a very noticeable yellow cloth for a head-covering; from that time forward the clothing of the Jews formed an important subject in the legal regulations concerning them.

                Ah yes, they had to wear funny hats in a part of Africa. That has absolutely nothing to do with the Western Asian strip of land that is the actual topic but hey, this clearly justifies Palestinian genocide on a different continent 800 years later. Special rules also applied to Christians. Neither doesn’t speak to how well the actual people lived with each other. Also nothing that justifies any genocide from the hands of modern Christians as well.