To be precise, you mean they weren’t *Muslim*. ‘Muslim’ is the word you’re looking for.
You see… It’s less an ethnic diaspora than a religious one, one credited with returning the Jewish community to Jerusalem after Rome had expelled them from its precincts. Umar, second successor to Muhammad, assumed power in Jerusalem without a fight, cleaning up towering heaps of garbage polluting the Temple Mount and declining the invitation of Patriarch Sophronious to use the holiest church in Christendom in order to pray, declaring that, ‘Were I to set foot therein, my companions would claim the church as a mosque.’
More than 13 centuries before Thedore Herzl was just a twinkle in his daddy’s eye, Muslims protected religious liberty throughout the Holy Land.
Have some courtesy. Call them by what they call themselves: Muslims.