request by a qazi to destroy a mosque in jewish quarter

[Persecution of the Jews in North Africa: pogroms - humiliating Jewish quarters locked at night]At times savage attacks were made upon synagogues by incited mobs of Muslims or troops in mutiny. Various sources relate that Scrolls of the Law were desecrated, religious articles stolen, furniture burned, and buildings destroyed. Nevertheless, these happenings were not connected with the regulations of the Covenant of Omar, as they were in fact violations of them. This being the case, when the troubles passed, Muslim authorities were known at times to subsidize the repairs. When persecutions took place in Fez in 1790-92, a qadi requested of Moulay Suleiman that a mosque which had been built in the Jewish quarter be destroyed; the sultan ordered that this be done. Jewish areas of residence in oriental towns only became Jewish quarters in a negative sense after a wall around the area had been built and the gates were locked at night. After this occurred, the Muslims of the madina, the (Muslin) city, would not settle in the Jewish quarter, while refusing to allow the Jews to live outside it. Even though it was asserted that the walls of the quarter were to protect the Jews from incursions on the part of the mobs, the experience was a humiliating one for the Jews, for even in the absence of a physical wall separating them from the city, there was a "wall of contempt".