![]() ![]() That was the pragmatic interpretation.181 In the early seventeenth century, a pair of Christian visitors to Safed told of life for the Jews: “Life here is the poorest and most miserable that one can imagine.” Because of the harshness of Turkish rule and its crippling dhimmi oppression, the Jews “pay for the very air they breath”.182 Reports like these could be multiplied. Thus the pronouncement of the Prophet Mohammad was altered in practice to: two religions may not dwell together equally. The infidel’s head tax, in addition to other extortions-and the availability of the “non-believers” to act as helpless scapegoats for the oft-dissatisfied masses-became a highly useful mainstay to the Arab-Muslim rulers. ![]() ”-the Arab-Muslim world codified its supremacist credo, and later that belief was interpreted liberally enough to allow many non-Muslim dhimmis, or infidels, to remain alive between onslaughts in the Muslim world as a means of revenue. As we have seen, beginning with the Prophet Mohammad’s edict demanding racial purity-that “Two religions may not dwell together. “In truth, “Arab” terrorism in the Holy Land originated centuries before the recent tool of “the Palestinian cause was invented.” In towns where Jews lived for hundreds of years, those Jews were periodically robbed, raped, in some places massacred, and in many instances, the survivors were obliged to abandon their possessions and run. ![]()
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