I am cross-posting an article from RAIR Foundation USA in which Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch effectively refutes claims made on a Tucker Carlson interview with JD Hall, a controversial American theologian, in which Hall claimed that under the Ottoman Empire's control over the Holy Land, Christians were well treated.
There is very little I wish to add to Spencer's rebuttal. After all, he is the true expert when it comes to Islam's persecution of other religions. In truth, there is no real Muslim-majority country in which non-Muslims are treated with equal rights and equal respect. To do so would contradict Islam's very teachings, as Spencer points out.
The RAIR article begins with a clip of the Carlson-Hall discussion and ends with a 20-minute interview of Spencer by RAIR.
I was once an admirer of Carlson, but he seems to have come to the conclusion, in my opinion, that it is more practical to take the side of Muslims against Jews and Israel since there are more of the former than there are of the latter. I take the opposite view based on what I think is the moral position and that Christians and Jews are both considered by Islam-not every Muslim on the planet- but by Islamic teaching to be its enemy.
Full disclosure: Until today, I had never heard of JD Hall, so I cannot speak with any authority on the accusations against him, so I will not offer any comment in that regard. The reader is free to do his/her own research.
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