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=> I Googled "modern arab wars of conquest"

I Googled "modern arab wars of conquest"

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, May 20 2011, 19:55:05 (UTC)
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...all I got was references to wars with Byzantium....and of course the Arab-Israeli wars...that's it. The Israeli wars weren't started by Arabs but by Europeans using Jews to form a colony in the midst of Arab lands. Had the Christians never persecuted Jews up to the Holocaust, there would be no "Israel" but plenty of Jews living in peace in the Middle East...so that's hardly a war of conquest the Arabs sought and they certainly have no intentions, ever, of converting Jews by force or any other means to Islam....

...so that leaves us with Byzantine era wars.....that's quite some time ago and even then, it was the European Christians who decided to settle on the front doorstep of Arab lands...and the Arabs knew well enough what to expect if they didn't go on the defense/offense first...Rome has an empire, remember? And it was obviously an expanding one else what were the Romans doing in Byzantium?

...Google has no mention at all of any Muslim/Arab wars fought in the days since the Ottomans kicked out the Byzantines....none, not one. Not one reference in the last 500 years of an Arab army invading Argentina...or sending its Navy to fight the Chinese...or marching off to Siam.....yes, there were wars fought against Persia and Afghanistan....and against the Russians, who attacked first....but these were the common kinds of political wars every nation and people have indulged in...what is missing from the historical record is any evidence of Arab armies venturing miles from their homes to subjugate people around the globe...and no evidence EVER that they did this to forcibly convert people to Islam...yes, people DID convert, but they did so either willingly or because they simply did not want to pay the added tax for remaining true to their god....that was very clever, shrewd, wise and humane of Islam and something totally foreign to Christianity.

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Keeping Score: War and Genocide in the 20th Century pancho - Friday, May 20 2011, 16:40:27 (UTC)
- Keeping Score: War and Genocide in the 20th Century pancho - 05/20 16:44
- I Googled "modern arab wars of conquest" pancho - 05/20 19:55
  - and meanwhile....from speakassyria.org.... pancho - 05/20 19:59

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