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From: mr@homxb.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG)
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Subject: Re: Arab tolerance
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Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 04:31:15 EST
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> In article <778@sfmag.UUCP> rajeev@sfmag.UUCP (S.Rajeev) writes:
> >Yakim Martillo writes:
> >> 
> >> Muslims over the past millenium have subjected non-Muslims under their
> >> rule to systematic humiliation and degradation which are mandated by
> >> all schools of Islamic jurisprudence.  Further the contempt which  Islam
> >> encourages Muslims to feel toward non-Muslims has caused periodic persecution
> >> and pogroms directed at non-Muslims in all corners of the Islamic world.
> >... and more somewhat extreme anti-Muslim views.
> >I would like to request that such displays of intolerance be kept off 
> I believe that the above is also incorrect.  The mast millenium certainly
> includes the middle ages.  I believe it is because of the religious tolerance
> of the Islamic world that we call Arabic numerals Arabic.  I believe they
> were originally Hindu, and the Arab conquerors at the height of their conquests
> allowed the practice of religions other than their own, as opposed to, say,
> the Catholic Church which consolidated and centralized its power through the
> prevention of religious liberty.
> I believe that Jews in Spain fared better under the Moors than they did under
> the Inquisition, and I'm under the impression that it was through the
> Jewish scholars who studied with Arab mathematicians that the Christian world
> ended up receiving the ancient Greek and Hindu mathematics.  
> Also, I believe pogrom is a Yiddish word derived from the Russian for 
> devastation (Webster's Collegiate) and not really appropriately used 
> here.

The word pogrom here is used to indicate that the masses of population went
out to kill Jews. What is the difference where the word comes from.

> Peter Berke
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