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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Monday, August 27 2007, 21:48:07 (CEST)
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“Wars with Christian states and princes were often the cause of attacks against native Christians. During the first half of the ninth century, when the Byzantine emperor Theophilus invaded Addasid territory, not only did the Byzantines massacre their Monophysite enemies but the Muslims too turned their hatred ‘against the rest of us who were Christian…because of the invasion of the Byzantine’, wrote a Jacobite chronicler.”

Interesting. I’m certain sure that on any day honoring “martyrs” back then, only those Christians murdered by Muslims would have been wept over…while the Christians killed by Christians would have been passed over…how little has changed.

This note sounded here; that whenever foreign Christians attacked Muslim lands it resulted in retribution against the native Christian subjects, is something we would have been well advised to keep in mind when many of us were claiming just the opposite would be true. This has happened throughout our history up to the present…and yet our nationalists continue claiming that such attacks will “liberate” the native Christians…and they never have…instead they have brought only more suffering and greater migration.

“The Christians of Edessa had especially suffered because one of them had “attached himself to the Byzantines and encouraged them to destroy Moslems” But as Guy Le Strange points out, during a crisis Shi’ah Muslims as well as Sunnis alternately suffered a like experience”

In other words it didn’t matter what religion you were…what mattered was what you DID. It is unfortunate that collective punishment draws into its net so many innocent people…such as the Iraqis of today who were attacked because of what 19 non-Iraqis did on 9/11. The point is that an accurate and fair reading of history, something required of any professional historian but anathema to pop-historians, shows that people are pretty much the same everywhere you go. Today especially…as during the 1930s in Berlin, one has to keep stressing this point or else the Christians will once again mount a Holocaust…this time against Islam.

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