Oppressed People Quotes
Even a cursory reading of the Koran and early Muslim history would show that there were vast inequalities in the economic order long before the ‘imperialists’ were involved in the Middle East. Throughout the Islamic world there has always been the oppressors and the oppressed and inequality has usually been much worse than in the ‘imperialist’ countries.
A Capuchin monk and his Muslim servant had disappeared from the streets of Damascus just before the Jewish Passover. A rumor got started that Jews had kidnapped and murdered them so that they could use their blood in making the traditional Passover matzoh. This was an old disproven canard from the Middle Ages. This absurd lie, which persists in some Islamic nations, was referred to as the “Blood Libel”. However many Jews were rounded up and jailed with calls for their execution. Protests were made by countries the world over. Van Buren mobilized the American diplomatic machinery in one of America’s first coordinated diplomatic campaigns in defense of human rights. Instructions were sent to American diplomats in Turkey and Egypt to strongly send the American message and position. It was successful. See {613362}.
Ever since the world dominance by the Judeo-Christian West, any military of physical victory of Muslims over Christians was considered symbolically very important by Islamic leaders.
