Jews second-class citizens

Jewish Canadians remember Canada policy on Jewish immigration from the 1930s: �none is too many.� We remember the way Japanese Canadians were interned and stripped of citizenship in the 1940s. There are haunting echoes of this discrimination in the new law, Bill C-24, that creates one set of rules for �Old Stock� Canadians who can never be deported, no matter what crimes they commit, and another set of rules for Canadians who either possess, or could be eligible for, a second citizenship. They can be stripped of their citizenship for committing certain crimes � even if they are convicted in countries with no respect for democracy and the rule of law.


Let�s be clear. We have no sympathy for criminals and terrorists. All Canadians convicted of a crime deserve to be sentenced. Yet we believe it is absurd to apply different rules to Canadians who commit the same crime, based on where they or their families were born. This is discrimination, baked right into the law that is supposed to treat us all as equals.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/10/14/new-law-makes-canadian-jews-second-class-citizens.html

According to Sharia law Jews and Christians are second-class citizens in a Sunni califate. Shiites and Yazidis are not even third-class citizens. They are thought criminals and have to be killed.

abuayisha wrote: When Europe was violently persecuting Jews for their religious belief, it was the Andalusia "caliphate" which offered safe harbor and allowed for Jews to freely practice their faith. And there is no concept of second or third class citizenship, when "jizah" is properly understood. The point of the thread was to show how laws written with the intention of marginalizing one religious group has unintended consequences for others. It's the old "canary in a coal mine" warning or admonition.

Properly understood? I don't buy that. Muslims were the rulers, like that white South Africans were during the time of apartheid. Andalusia cannot be a model for todays world.

The caliphate can't be a model for today, because it supports discrimination.