A nation’s moral standing is measured by its treatment of Jews

Evidence

None of this is to say that Geiger was soft on Muhammad and Islam. While he was highly critical of the “traces of hate” [Spuren von Hass] that he detected in Muhammad, charging him with misrepresenting Judaism, he also recognized that Muhammad’s vacillating attitude toward the Jews reflected ever changing historical circumstances. … Echoing the dictum of his German Jewish contemporary, the novelist, Berthold Auerbach, who claimed that the barometer of a country’s morality is the way it treats its Jews, Geiger spoke highly of Arabia: “it was very favorable to the Jews, who had fled to that country in large numbers after the destruction of Jerusalem, inasmuch as it enabled them to gather together and maintain their independence.” — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 384

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘barometer of morality’ test parallels the religious-liberty test in the reader’s favor of early-modern toleration disputes and could anchor a comparative piece on how minority-status gauges are used.