Comparative religion textbooks sometimes contrast a tolerant Islam with an intolerant Christianity, stressing that in 1492 Christians expelled Jews from Spain where, it is often asserted, they had lived peacefully and prosperously for centuries under Muslim rule. These same textbooks ignore the fact that in 1148 Muslims also expelled Jews from Spain under the same terms as the Christians did later, which surely demonstrates that these comparisons are at least uninformed and often probably disingenuous.
Stark, One True God, p81.
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