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Re: The Crusades: What Really Happened
Posted by Rashad (Guest) - Thursday, November 29 2012, 20:21:26 (UTC)
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a good example of this is Christians conquered the Americas and we seen what they did to the natives. Muslims conquered Egypt, for example, yet they allowed the Christians freedom to worship, and the more than fourteen million Copts are evidence of that. Iraq is another example or when the Turks conquered parts of Europe and ruled it for 600 years. They didn't behave as Christians did and many Christians and Jews attained high government positions, which did not happen under Christians. This is something that has often been either ignored or misunderstood. Both religions had armies and conquered lands but they were different and can never be painted with same brush.

Islam ruled India for a 1000 years and most Indians are Hindu and Muslims are a minority. Spain was ruled by Muslim for 800 years and they are still mainly Catholic and the Spanish Muslims were forcefully reconverted to Christianity and others were killed. Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world and no army ever went there and conquered them. There is no place in the world where Christians landed and just left the people free to worship, and they definitely didn't rule for centuries and leave those populations alone. This is a mistake commonly made by people in the west, and even non-Christians simply accuse Islam of doing things that Christians did. That is not to say one religion is better but they have different histories and can't be just lumped together. People like Bill Maher and Hitchens and Harris are bigots and so prejudice against Muslims that they just accuse of and make fools of themselves. This is not defend Islam but simply truth. I don't care about religions but I care about truth and it still angers me when I see people lie and slander Muslims with what Christians are guilty of.

Just because Muslims conquered lands and had armies, don't mean they wer ebrutal and killed everyone. After all , lands are conquered through military but that don't mean people were killed or forced to Islam. When Muslims conquered Mesoptamia and Syria, those lands were ruled by two empires(Persians and Romans) and the local Christians were actually persecuted. It was Muslims who rescued them and accepted them as "people of the book". Christans never offered such things.



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