I was looking through Wikipedia for some terms to point out on the various "Muslims is good people" threads. Terms like Dhimmi and Hudna. We'll ignore those for now and get to what upset me. In the Dhimmi entry where it's speaking about the treatment of non-Muslims in Muslim lands, someone made a statement of historical inaccuracy. They said that Maimonides, the well known Jewish scholar, had accepted conversion to Islam when his city of Cordoba was conquered. It goes on to say that when he moved to Egypt, a friend of his said the conversion was void. This is supposed to show something and I don't know what. What it does show is false scholarship. When Cordoba was invaded in 1148, Maimonides was 13 and the Jews of the city were given a choice of conversion, exile or death. Maimonides, his family and most of the Jews chose exile. I'd really like to know where the false story of his conversion came from and why it was added. False scholarship irks me and Wikipedia, as a bastion of 'add your own scholarship' irks me to no end. Have we gone so far as to say everything is relative and nothing is true.
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