Medina, Islam's second holiest city, was originally a Jewish "settlement"

Medina, Islam's second holiest city, was originally a Jewish "settlement"

Although the fact is little publicized, more than one historian has affirmed at the Arab world's second holiest city, Medina, was one of the allegedly "purely Arab" cities that actually was first settled by Jewish tribes.1

And like the 16th Century English Protestants who financed their endeavors through the plunder of Catholic monasteries in England, the roots of Islamic anti-Semitism might be found in the initial plunder of Jewish settlements, and the imposition of a "poll tax" to fund Arab campaigns.

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Medina, Islam's second holiest city, was originally a Jewish "settlement"