The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> bullshit without end....
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pancho
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- Saturday, May 21 2011, 17:29:51 (UTC) from *** - *** -  Windows XP -   MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
...I only posted the first few paragraphs of this horrendously biased view of Islam as terrible and Christians as wonderful, if at times a bit naughty...but the important thing is that for all that the author tries to scare us all about the violence of Islam by listing their past wars, he stops at the Middle Ages...because that's when Islam stopped expanding and waging wars of conquest. And he, like all the rest, sees this current state of war between the Christian West and Iraqi parents as an example of that old "Jihadist" fervor of the early Muslims...if those early Muslims were indeed "ferocious" in their expansion...what does he think the Roman Empire had been doing all those years? To hear him tell it you'd think Muhammad crucified Jesus and not the leaders of the "benevolent" Roman Empire which was only DEFENDING iyself, like the Nazis were doing in their war against Jews. ...the Christians of course NEVER stopped conquering, occupying and waging war, right up to today.... War Without End: A Brief History of the Muslim Conquests T. David Curp 03 Dec, 2006 [Dar al-Islam, al-Harb, Allah, Prophet Muhammad, Caliph, caliphate, Jihad, conquest, war, Byzantine, Constantinople, Christendom; ancient civilizations, Persia, China, Spain, reconquista, Balkans, Greek, Greece, India, Hindu Kush, Europe] Crusading ideals in the West were an answer to the greater threat of jihad. They were spurred by fear and necessity in a desperate competition with Islam that, for many centuries, Christians lost—and were aware that they were losing. The extent of Islam’s victories can be seen in the all-but-complete disappearance of the once-thriving Christian communities in North Africa, the Middle East, and Western Asia, as well as the deep roots that Islam still has in the Balkans—a region whose very name was imposed upon it by successful late medieval Turkish imperialism. Islam is a remarkably successful religion that for most of its existence has inspired its adherents to creatively synthesize the often-conflicting requirements of warfare, imperial politics, and missionary zeal. Projecting Western freedom of action backward in time seriously distorts the more dramatic story of ongoing Western weakness that almost destroyed Christendom. The pathos and peril of much of contemporary radical Islam’s protest against the West is not fueled primarily by aggrieved victimhood; it is nourished by an even stronger memory of how Islam’s final victory over Christendom remained for so long a real possibility. Muslim triumphs in earlier centuries were the crucible that forged both Christendom’s fears and Islam’s confidence. --------------------- |
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