I read history and it makes me wonder with the connection is to the situation we find ourselves in today. The wealthy hates a group of people and does things in order to undermine their power and then eradicate them.
Some things I learned from reading The Empire of Necessity by Greg Grandin:
Hernan Cortes, the Spaniard who invaded Mexico, called Aztecs "Moors." One priest thought the nomadic peoples who roamed northern Mexico reminded him of Arabs. Spaniards used the word mosque to describe Aztec and Incan temples and believed some of the rituals to be similar to Islamic rites. When Spanish royals arrived to survey Castile's new possessions, they were welcomed with reenactments not of the American conquest but of the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula. The saint they picked to be the patron of America was St. James the Moor Slayer. And this eye opener: Columbus himself described his voyage as the next step in the struggle against the "sect of Mohamet and of all idolatries and heresies," even though one of the reasons he sailed west was to avoid Islam, to find a way to bypass Muslim control of trade routes to Asia.
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