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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6047155" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>The loaning of money was a big part of it but also the refusal to accept Jesus as the Messiah made them easy scapegoats for demagogues.  Any group that has a stigma attached to it is an easy target.  I was interested in countries on the old Silk Road that were part of the Soviet Union and at one time were mostly Muslim.  Saw for myself that most people in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan today aren't practicing Muslims, it's just their heritage.  Yet people here have told me you can't trust them, they're all this or that.  Look at Ricky and Israel.  He demonizes all Israelis just because he's been told to.  We have whites who hate and fear all blacks and vice versa.  So are Jews hated?  As long as people whisper to others that they are this or that then they will be hated.</p></blockquote><p></p>