When the Islamic State Saved 150,000 Jews

[Desert Fox]

Reading the thread heading especially by that particular OP i thought PDF now has given approval for ISIS propaganda..

The team "Islamic State" had existed way before the America/Western created ISIS and affiliated groups hijacked it. Therefore there is nothing wrong with this term. The probem only exists in the heads of the people who associate this term with the recent Western created terrorist organizations, AKA the "moderate" rebels.

 

[WaLeEdK2]

The Jews were given the same rights before the ottomans. The second Khalifah Umar (ra) allowed the Jews to come back and visit and worship at their holy places in Jerusalem, which the Byzantines previously restricted them to do. Many of them were given high authority jobs. For example, the vizier of Baghdad entrusted his capital to Jewish bankers and Siraf, the principal port of the caliphate in the 10th century, had a Jewish governor. Leon Poliakov writes that in the early ages of Islam, Jews enjoyed great privileges, and their communities prospered. No laws or social barriers restricted their commercial activities, and exclusive trade and craft guilds like those in Europe did not exist. Jews who moved to Muslim lands were found themselves free to engage in any profession, resulting in less stigma than in Europe where such restrictions were still in force. Throughout history it was the Muslims that kept on giving refuge to Jews while in Europe they weren't even treated as human beings.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

....and guess where many of those 150,000 were sent...yep Ottoman Palestine

so...who are we going to blame now for things...

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

It was just a Absolute monarchy which how comes has mostly not like others the Christianity as Religion, just the Islam.

It was considered a Caliphate - hence; an Islamic state.

 

[madmusti]

It was considered a Caliphate - hence; an Islamic state.

An Caliphate is not Islamic - you should go and watch for "Islamic" and his definition.

 

[C130]

The Ottomans called their state by that name. Citizenship was "Muslim" for Muslims. The Caliph considered himself the Caliph of Islam to whom most outlying rulers like Hindustan owed allegiance. We used to offer the Friday Khutba in the name of this Caliph till Partition.

call it the Caliph then. why smear Islams good name when the Takfiri are calling the land they control the Islamic State


the title should be when the Ottoman Empire saved 150,000 Jews