Lyn Julius > Quotes

“According to the historian Bernard Lewis, the myth of Muslim tolerance is one of the great myths of history propagated by nineteenth century intellectuals. Jewish historians wanted to embarrass the West into giving European Jews greater civil rights. Belief in the myth of Muslim tolerance was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. According to Lewis, the myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians – and taken up by Muslims in our own time as a reproach to Jews:”
― Lyn Julius, Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight