whims31

Here is another article that's on point. The Onion does have a way with (omitting) words.

https://www.theonion.com/israel-assures-it-doing-everything-...

"Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians"

Janissaries (Ottoman not Andalusian) weren't eunuchs by and large.

It really depends on the historical context. I don't know what the standards were for the period but i saw this random tidbit from wikipedia while reading up on the Roma people (Note : this was after the era of the Andalus ):

>From 1510 onwards, any Romani found in Switzerland were to be executed; while in England (beginning in 1554) and Denmark (beginning of 1589) any Romani which did not leave within a month were to be executed. Portugal began deportations of Romanis to its colonies in 1538.

Compared to getting executed for being at the the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong ethnicity, Andalus may well have been a oasis of tolerance in Europe, relatively speaking.