it's so easy to pretend that all the people of one group were perfect and holy and always victims.
meanwhile . . .
who was there capitulating with the Saracens and dealing slaves in Cairo
and running slave camps in the Steppes of Euroasia?
it's easy to ignore that capitulation with slavers was part of what went on.
learn history.
there were good and bad on all sides. It wasn't as cut and dry as the lies you learned at your summer camp.
you can't have anyone ever telling you anything but the fairy tales you heard from your relatives, can you?
I knew a lot of people like you and the victim mentality was like a brainwash that they were under.
ya, must hurt to learn that some of your ancestors weren't really that nice after all.
the 'my people' persona that thinks that the world is about 'my people' verses everyone else has a victim mentality.
there are many people who fall for this kind of narrative, and some groups seem more prone to have that kind of personality as a leader or teacher in the group.