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Why couldn't we have created Israel in Utah? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] rottingleaf 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

you just has to pay higher tax as a non-muslim, but they left you in peace.

No they didn't leave you in peace, just the tax part wasn't optional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire/Classical-Ottoman-society-and-administration

Scroll down to "The purpose of the millet system was..." and let me know what you think

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 4 weeks ago

Da fuck is dat.

I knew Britannica was low, but not that low. Holy shit.

(For those who didn't follow the link) The main ethnic conflict problem of the Ottoman Empire was apparently not perpetual small-scale extermination of Christians and Yazidis, but the fact that some Christians still existed in, ya knaw, Eastern Roman, Assyrian and Armenian lands, and to flavor that turd they wrote something about blood libel against Jews - in the Ottoman empire, o-ho-ho.