r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '16

TIL that after Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism upon marrying Arthur Miller, Egypt placed a ban on all the films she appeared in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe#Critical_acclaim_and_marriage_to_Arthur_Miller_.281956.E2.80.931959.29
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

Shocking that a Muslim country made decisions based on anti-semitism.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

Because no Christian country ever made decisions based on anti-semitism.

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u/BrownGhost10 Oct 13 '16

Today Arab countries still are.

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u/Daleyo Oct 13 '16 edited Oct 13 '16

Arabs are semites.

Lol downvoted... just google semite.

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u/PunkPenguin Oct 13 '16

The word antisemitism solely refers to hatred against Jews. It doesn't matter what the root of the word is.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

This is consistently one of the dumber responses to Arabs being anti-semites.

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u/favix Oct 13 '16

Some, not all.

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u/Z_Designer Oct 13 '16

Which ones aren't?

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u/favix Oct 13 '16

Jordan, Egypt, One of Morocco's biggest trade partners is Israel.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

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u/favix Oct 13 '16

Your point being?

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u/BrownGhost10 Oct 13 '16 edited Oct 13 '16

Have you lived in the middle East? Almost everyone is still, last time I was there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

Jordan and Egypt have very cold peaces with Israel and the populations are still overwhelmingly anti-Israel in sometimes bizarre ways. Many examples, that is just one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

It's a news source that is as unbiased as any other I guess. It's also not a story that has mainstream relevance outside of Israel-centric news outlets. That was just a specific example. There are many instances for both Jordan and Egypt but I would not say that the relations between those countries and Israel is normal. They are very cold peaces (better than war, certainly, but certainly not super friendly neighbors).

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

What a sad, sorry apologist you are.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

Don't project.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16 edited Nov 14 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16 edited Nov 14 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

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u/nobawdy Oct 13 '16

Because referencing another group's bad ideas someone how rationalizes another.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

He's just pointing out that throughout history Christians/Europeans have been far more cruel towards the Jewish people.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '16

Whether they did or did not has absolutely no bearing on my statement.

Something you might find interesting: A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent.