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INDY500 said:
Well, depends on who you ask or want to believe, but at best I think Christians and Jews (as dhimmis) would be ghettoized, and at worst, asked to convert at the point of a sword.
Historically, this completely depended on who the ruler was. For example, Moorish Spain, for the most part, was an enclave for Jews, who fared better there than in Christian Europe, where they were outright hated. However, there were certain rulers who were much more intolerant and insisted on forced conversions, so there were a few occasions when the Christians (known then as
"Mozarabs") would flee north to the relatively stable Kingdom of Asturias. But equally interestingly, if a newly tolerant leader emerged, many Mozarabs would also migrate back.
A lot of this, I imagine, would have to do with the fact that the Moors did not upset the old Visigothic order all that much, as the Visigothic lords would often able to maintain their lands. Where the Moors ultimately ended up upsetting the old order, though, was how Christian slaves of the time could gain their freedom by converting to Islam.
After the end of the
Reconquista in 1492, when Spain became fully Christian again, all the Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled, so even considering the fact that Jews and Christians were subject to
dhimmi status, they were considerably treated better than Christian attitudes towards minority religions during this same historical period.
Of course, history is always full of irony, as Christians are now more tolerant of minority beliefs than that of Muslim nations.
