There is a great history of tolerance within Islam, which states that Jewish citizens of a Muslim state are a protected minority.

Very few imams will tell you the story of Rabbi Mukhayriq, the Jewish friend of the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

During the 7th and 8th centuries Iberia (Spain and Portugal), was a divided kingdom ruled by the Catholic Visigoths, the region was home to a Jewish minority who suffered intolerable persecution under these Christian rulers.

Around the year 1013 Abu al-Kasim ibn al-‘Arif was chief advisor to Habbus al-Muzaffar, the king of Ta’ifa Garnata