Originally Posted by
Longbowman
Looked briefly at your sources, @flip:
Using the Megillah as a source for the Jewish expulsion from Persia is very funny for several reasons. First, the Megillah is almost certainly not based on a true story. Second, in the Megillah, the Jews are not expelled from Persia. That's the whole point.
Anyway this was one of the first 3 or 4 examples and the other ones were almost equally ridiculous so I didn't go through the full list, but it would be interesting to see a list of countries that did not allow people to practise Judaism but did allow people to practise other minority religions. I bet we would go from """"359"""" to about six. Intolerance is a Catholic virtue, and it wasn't limited to the Jewish minorities in their countries.
Various other entries from my skim-read are either outright lies (Sisebut didn't kick anyone out, he demanded Jews convert and then whipped them for not converting, but again it's not like he tolerated other non-Christians) or ridiculous (like that town in Guatamela kicking out Lev Tahor being portrayed as a 'country' that 'expelled the Jews'). Similarly, yes, 1948 made life hard for Jews in many Muslim countries, because Muslims are reactionary and so are Jews. However, they were not expelled from anywhere except Libya, and that wasn't until Gaddafi in the late 1960s. Interestingly, this actual example didn't make the list, whereas the fictional example of Uganda (where Asians such as yourself were actually expelled) did make the list. I mean, really, expelled from [my ancestral home of] Bombay? There are still thousands of Jews in that Hindu-majority city (note, city, not country). It's literally just lies, not even embellishments; mistruths and fabrications with dubious singular sources intended to make the document specious enough for idiots like you to believe it. However, anti-Semites and racists like yourself are rarely even-minded, so I cannot fault you for meekly and obediently swallowing the lies of others, just as you swallow your communion wafers in the sincere and mindless belief that it is the blood and flesh of a man who died two millennia ago.
TLDR; you can't blame a snake for behaving as a snake would.
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