Paranoia, Inferiority Complex and Fanaticism: The Case of Islamic Attitudes toward Jews

For centuries Muslim countries have cultivated the myth that Jews under their rule enjoyed equality, harmony, and generally positive treatment.

But the revelation of relevant documents covering one millennium of history (the 10th to the 20th centuries) tell a different story, one of persecution, pogroms, suffering, and humiliation, which were relieved only when France colonized North Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The major landmark of this attitude was manifested in the inferior and ...