Skybird: As I am sure you are aware, anti-Jewish sentiments go WAY back. I'm also confident you know that there is nothing in Judaism that forbids a Jewish banker from charging interest in loans. You may also be aware that in Islam, charging interest is against the religion. This has always bee true. In old Islamic countries, only Jews were allowed to charge interests in loans. Now explain to me how this intolerance towards non-muslims led to only Jews being allowed to make money on lending out money? How is that intolerance towards Judaism? Isn't this exactly the opposite, namely acceptance? Non-acceptance would have had a very different result but that other result is not what we see happened. Unlucky for the Jews, this acceptance to practice what Islam forbids led to what we now know as anti semittism.
Granted, this was a long time ago now and much have changed in a lot of areas but this really did happen and it really is not the tell tale sign of this eternal non-acceptance you keep repeating.
Look deeper if you have a genuine interest in finding out what is causing all the killings we see today.
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