After Muslims conquered the nations of "people of the book," Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian communities shrank in their sizes in the Middle East and North Africa because of:
a. the command of Muslim rulers to execute all non-Muslims.
b. the violent persecution of these minorities.
c. the pressure of the first-class status of these communities.
d. the migration of their population out of the Islamic empire.
d. the migration of their population out of the Islamic empire.
Analysis:
a,b & c. Incorrect. In the past sixty years or so, there has been a great migration to Israel of Jews living in Arab lands and, in the past twenty years, a steady migration of Arab Christians from Palestine and Iraq to the United States.
d. Correct. Over time, most of the Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian communities shrank to shadows of their earlier sizes in the Middle East and North Africa, as second-class status, pressure for conversion to Islam, and migration out of the Islamic empire took their tools.
You might also like to view...
The U.S. Supreme Court justified its decision based on the Fourteenth Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution.
What will be an ideal response?Shinto was disestablished as the official state religion in:
a. 1931, after annexing Manchuria. b. 1905, after war with Russia c. 1918, after World War One d. 1945, after World War Two
John Hick argues that hard determinism
A. is self-refuting. B. is correct. C. is the basis for intellectual freedom. D. is a rational belief.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Making the assumption that A is true, B is true, C is false, and D is false, determine the truth value (true or false) of this compound statement: ~(A • B) ? (A ? (C ?D))