Comments by "No Fate But What We Make" (@SonoftheAllfather) on "The WaPo Gets it Half Right on Authoritarians" video.

  1. @Paul Franklin You are completely uninformed. Islam began in the early 7th century CE, and there were already numerous ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman scholars who wrote negatively about Jews, some as early as 270 BC. Jews were expelled several times from various areas of Europe, Africa and the Near East hundreds of years before Muhammad was even born. It's so ironic that the people who are most disparaging, hostile, and arrogant - demanding that everyone else "educate themselves" are usually the one that have no idea wtf they're talking about. Here's just one example (of about 100 more I could provide) that serve to crush your argument. "The other practices of the Jews are sinister and revolting, and have entrenched themselves by their very wickedness. Wretches of the most abandoned kind who had no use for the religion of their fathers took to contributing dues and free-will offerings to swell the Jewish exchequer; and other reasons for their increasing wealth way be found in their stubborn loyalty and ready benevolence towards brother Jews. But the rest of the world they confront with the hatred reserved for enemies. They will not feed or intermarry with gentiles. Though a most lascivious people, the Jews avoid sexual intercourse with women of alien race. Among themselves nothing is barred. They have introduced the practice of circumcision to show that they are different from others. Proselytes to Jewry adopt the same practices, and the very first lesson they learn is to despise the gods, and shed all feelings of patriotism..." ~Tacitus Histories 5.5 Written over 500 years before the birth of Muhammad. ^^^
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