Comment by dotancohen
3 days ago
How is this different than the Muslims currently pouring into Europe today? Whatever happened to "refugees welcome"?
It should be noted in context that in 1856 the Ottomans, after their war with Prussia, actively invited all peoples - not only Muslims - to come and settle the sparsely populated Holy Land specifically in order to collect more taxes. Jews and Arabs happily took up the offer. The last Jerusalem census to show a Muslim majority in that city was 1876, and the 50 years preceding it were neck and neck for Jews and Arabs majority.
> in order to collect more taxes.
Non-Muslims were taxed more so of course they were welcomed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
Muslims have not asked for a majority Muslim state in Europe or started a terror campaign in support of that goal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence