tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post3139069316715540012..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: How do Jews survive in Muslim lands?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-66156098735785387402015-02-15T14:19:57.471+00:002015-02-15T14:19:57.471+00:00I met Prof Stillman a few times way back when. His...I met Prof Stillman a few times way back when. His late wife Yedida was from Morocco, as mentioned in the article. And he visited his wife's family in Morocco, also mentioned in the article. One of the things that he wrote about these visits was how local Muslims treated Jews. He wrote that walking on the street near the Jewish Quarter of his wife's hometown, an Arab Muslim kid recognized him as a Jew and picked up a stone and threw it at him. He wrote that this action was done very casually, without any special emotion on the part of the kid and even without any firm intention to hurt him physically but rather as a sort of ritual action meant to humiliate the Jew and show him who was boss in Morocco. After all this was a kid throwing a stone at an adult man. Stillman, as a scholar, wrote that this ritual action was rooted in Islamic teaching, as I recall.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com