To judge the subordination, terror and extortion of Muslim dhimmitude, like that inflicted by the Almohads in Al Andalus/Spain by the standard set by the German pogroms of the 11th century, the English expulsion of 1290, the French expulsion of 1394, the Spanish pogrom wave of 1391, the Spanish expulsion of 1492 the Portuguese expulsion of 1494, the Chmelnitski pogrom wave of 1648 and the Russian-Ukrainian pogroms of 1881-1921 is setting a really low bar.

It's like saying North Carolina was a model of relative peace for black people because it had fewer lynchings than Mississippi and Alabama.