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Re: part 6
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Monday, August 27 2007, 21:49:05 (CEST)
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“In general, the authorities behaved justly and without revenge toward their Christian subjects. In the twelfth century, a metropolitan of Nisibis (Eliya, A.D. 1008-49) favored the Muslims to peoples of other religions and persuasions ‘whether they treat us well or not.’ The reason he gave was that the Muslims regarded it as a ‘matter of religion and duty to protect us, to honor us and to treat us well.’ Even when the Muslims have ‘oppressed us and done us wrong,’ they find out when they ‘have turned to their law’ that ‘it does not approve of harming and oppressing us.’ The metropolitan concluded that the occasional harsh treatment at the hand of the Muslims coupled with ‘their confession that in treating us thus they are acting contrary to their law, is better for us than good treatment of others who confess that it is contrary to their law to treat us well.’”

Subtle…and wise. This would seem to imply that when the Crusaders, as emissaries of the pope in Rome, had need of the “heretics” and treated them well, it was only necessity that drove them to it for their church laws condemned all heretics. By contrast good treatment at the hands of Muslims was an integral part of the law handed down by Muhammad…and it was their ill treatment which was the exception and went contrary to Islamic laws.

The good treatment by the Latins was the exception to their rule and usually lasted only so long as needed while the good treatment at the hands of Muslims WAS their rule of law and not a momentary thing.

“As for the group with which we are specifically concerned here, the Jacobites, we find them, after five hundred years of Muslim rule, faring well as a community of two million faithful with 20 metropolitans, and 103 bishops in Iraq, Syria and Cypress. Although they did not match the Nestorians in their missionary effort, which covered Turkestan, China, and India, they compared favorably with them, as we have noted, in their intellectual and cultural life. Theology, philosophy, history, and the sciences flourished in their schools throughout the Middle Ages, bursting into a great revival of letters in the twelfth century, however, relations between Christians and Muslims deteriorated; it was during that century that the lands of Eastern Christendom became a battleground of religious wars.”

So, the Muslims did not try to wipe Christians off the face of the earth..on the contrary they were protected from orthodox intolerance..allowed to grow their sects, set up schools, travel and preach…even to the point of being allowed to govern themselves so as not to be forced to live by sharia law. This changed, not because of the “evil” in Islam…or at Muhammad’s orders…it changed when foreign Christian nations attacked the Middle East…as once again they are doing…bringing more misery to native Christians.



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