And yes, they know exactly what they’re talking about.
Apologists for Islam will tell you that it was a form of ”protection” in a system in which Jews and Christians paid just a tax, and that it was better than what Jews experienced in Europe during the same period. What they fail to tell you, that it was also a system of humiliation, for failure of the non-believer to convert to the ”true faith”. Here’s a couple of still shots from a MEMRI video which encapsulates this traditional Islamic thinking:
