Post by Paddy by Grace on Aug 15, 2009 22:14:33 GMT -7
Nearly all of Yemen's remaining Jews prepare to leave
Islamic Tolerance Alert. This is the cumulative effect of incidents like this, and many others. It should seem curious, given the aggressive response "heresies" generally evoke within Islam, that this alleged "misunderstanding" of Islam with respect to the treatment of unbelievers keeps cropping up, and is allowed by the surrounding community to go on.
In reality, of course, the attitude comes from Islam's own founder, as Muhammad himself said: "I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim" (Sahih Muslim 19.4366).
"Yemen's last Jews set to flee country," by Haaviv Rettig Gur for the Jerusalem Post, August 14:
Israeli sources confirmed on Thursday Yemeni media reports that the overwhelming majority of the final remnant of Yemen's ancient Jewish community, numbering some 250 people, are looking to leave the country due to persecution and violence...
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Islamic Tolerance Alert. This is the cumulative effect of incidents like this, and many others. It should seem curious, given the aggressive response "heresies" generally evoke within Islam, that this alleged "misunderstanding" of Islam with respect to the treatment of unbelievers keeps cropping up, and is allowed by the surrounding community to go on.
In reality, of course, the attitude comes from Islam's own founder, as Muhammad himself said: "I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim" (Sahih Muslim 19.4366).
"Yemen's last Jews set to flee country," by Haaviv Rettig Gur for the Jerusalem Post, August 14:
Israeli sources confirmed on Thursday Yemeni media reports that the overwhelming majority of the final remnant of Yemen's ancient Jewish community, numbering some 250 people, are looking to leave the country due to persecution and violence...
Read it all...
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