I’ve talked to people from Nigeria and I didn’t realize all the attacks against churches there. If I remember correctly Christians are the most persecuted across the world
That’s kind of meaningless statement since for the entire history of Islam Christians have vastly outnumbered Jews. There have been plenty of massacres of Jews in Islamic countries (and battles in the Koran), but take the example of the Ottoman Empire that controlled roughly from Morocco to Saudi Arabia through Iraq, Turkey, Greece, and up almost to Vienna.
Christians were possibly the majority (rural peasants) in Egypt until maybe as late as the 1700s.
Christians were huge in Turkey, Istanbul, etc., until the 1920s.
Christians were the majority in Greece, most of the Balkans, large parts of the Levant (Lebanon areas), etc.
Christians and Jews were classified together as “people of the book” — monotheists who would be allowed to live under Islamic rule, but with limited rights and you get taxed to hell and oh yeah you can be made into slaves too. (If you're polytheists in an Islamic society, you are fucked. The last succesful jihad against polytheists was in the 1890s in Afghanistan against a polytheistic people who lived in a province called Kafiristian, the land of unbelievers. After the jihad and forced conversion of survivors, the province was renamed to Nuristan, the land of enlightenment).
Generally, if you played by the rules, so to speak, as a native Jew or Christian and didn’t shake the boat, you were ok.
Two events increased hostility against Christians specifically. The first was the crusades (the first major fightback from Christians powers—it’s easy to not care about Christians if they’re easily conquered and servile citizens). The second was with growing power of the Spanish, French, English, Russians, etc., and supporting Christian peoples inside the Ottoman Empire, Christians were in a similar boats to Japanese in the US during WW2.
tl;dr, Islam is expanionistic and aggressive, and while you can be a Jew or a Christian in an Islamic society, it sucks.
The otttoman empire was vastly genocidal even compared to other caliphates, youre talking about millions of slaves either bred out, used for war fodder, or castrated. During the Atlantic slave trade if we were to compare numbers to numbers the American black slaves becoming the population they are today would equal over 120 million Europeans and Slavs in Northern Africa and the Middle East.
I’ve talked to people from Nigeria and I didn’t realize all the attacks against churches there. If I remember correctly Christians are the most persecuted across the world
Muslims have always persecuted Christian’s more than Jews. It’s not even comparable, you’re talking hundreds of millions to at best tens of thousands.
That’s kind of meaningless statement since for the entire history of Islam Christians have vastly outnumbered Jews. There have been plenty of massacres of Jews in Islamic countries (and battles in the Koran), but take the example of the Ottoman Empire that controlled roughly from Morocco to Saudi Arabia through Iraq, Turkey, Greece, and up almost to Vienna.
Christians were possibly the majority (rural peasants) in Egypt until maybe as late as the 1700s.
Christians were huge in Turkey, Istanbul, etc., until the 1920s.
Christians were the majority in Greece, most of the Balkans, large parts of the Levant (Lebanon areas), etc.
Christians and Jews were classified together as “people of the book” — monotheists who would be allowed to live under Islamic rule, but with limited rights and you get taxed to hell and oh yeah you can be made into slaves too. (If you're polytheists in an Islamic society, you are fucked. The last succesful jihad against polytheists was in the 1890s in Afghanistan against a polytheistic people who lived in a province called Kafiristian, the land of unbelievers. After the jihad and forced conversion of survivors, the province was renamed to Nuristan, the land of enlightenment).
Generally, if you played by the rules, so to speak, as a native Jew or Christian and didn’t shake the boat, you were ok.
Two events increased hostility against Christians specifically. The first was the crusades (the first major fightback from Christians powers—it’s easy to not care about Christians if they’re easily conquered and servile citizens). The second was with growing power of the Spanish, French, English, Russians, etc., and supporting Christian peoples inside the Ottoman Empire, Christians were in a similar boats to Japanese in the US during WW2.
tl;dr, Islam is expanionistic and aggressive, and while you can be a Jew or a Christian in an Islamic society, it sucks.
The otttoman empire was vastly genocidal even compared to other caliphates, youre talking about millions of slaves either bred out, used for war fodder, or castrated. During the Atlantic slave trade if we were to compare numbers to numbers the American black slaves becoming the population they are today would equal over 120 million Europeans and Slavs in Northern Africa and the Middle East.