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From: buchbind@agrigene.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Arab tolerance
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 14:56:44 EST
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> By the standards of the Middle Ages Islam may have been slightly more
> tolerant than Christianity but much of Christian intolerance was
> learned from Muslims.

	The Jews were expelled from Spain several times *before* the
Moors' conquest.  They generally took up residence in Provance (SE
France) and, after a political change in Spain, moved back.  The final
preMoorish disaster involved forcible conversion to Christianity of all
Jews over 5 years old; the younger ones were taken from their parents
and given to Christians to be raised.  The term "Marranno", I believe,
means "pig" (or the like) and was given to this first cohort of "hidden
Jews" by the Jews that came to Spain with the Moors.  (This is similar
to the term "kike", which originated among American Sephardic Jews in
reference to their Eastern European cousins who began to arrive in the
U.S. in the 1870s, and is derived from the "...ski" ending of many E.
Europe names.)
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Barry Buchbinder					 (608)221-5000
Agrigenetics Corporation; 5649 East Buckeye Road; Madison WI 53716 USA
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