About 1400 years of conflict

• Christians and Jews could not bear arms -- Muslims could;
• Christians and Jews could not ride horses -- Muslims could;
• Christians and Jews had to get permission to build -- Muslims did not;
• Christians and Jews had to pay certain taxes which Muslims did not;
• Christians could not proselytize -- Muslims could;
• Christians and Jews had to bow to their Muslim masters when they paid their taxes; and
• Christians and Jews had to live under the law set forth in the Koran, not under either their own religious or secular law.

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