in his face, and a public announcer proclaims, “This is the penalty for the man who will not build his brother’s house.” (1)

It was not enough for them to accuse him falsely; they also subjected him to disgrace, forced him to utter lies, spat in his face, and reproached him for a fault brought about by someone else, just as it is said:

A crime dragged on by the fools of a clan—
while on the blameless the punishment fell. (2)

Should anyone whose own law and religion are like this not feel ashamed to mock the Muslims?!

Section

It should not be thought unlikely that the nation upon whom wrath descended could agree upon impossibilities and unite in various forms of disbelief and misguidance. When sovereignty is stripped from a people because another power overwhelms them and seizes their lands, the facts of their former history are effaced, the landmarks and relics of their religion are erased, and it becomes impossible to discern the sound path once followed by their earliest forebears. The fall of a state comes only through successive raids, the devastation, burning, and depopulation of its territories; these calamities continue to assail it until the traces of its religions are transformed, the foundations of its law wither, and the pillars of its faith dissolve. The more ancient the nation, and the more numerous the successive powers that subjugate and humiliate it, the greater its share of religious effacement. And these