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Was? You mean still is...Yep. Islam was spreading through the use of the sword.
Was? You mean still is...Yep. Islam was spreading through the use of the sword.
Yep, only once though. He got hit over the head about it so hard, even by his own party, we never heard it again. Of course, those in the Middle East never forgot it.
Was? You mean still is...
Yes. They still are. I don't want to say religion is expanding as much as tools who crave power tend to use a religion as an excuse to grab more power and of the major religions... Islam seems to be the more convenient tool to use as of late.
they seem to never forget anything over there. EVerything is an excuse for a fight no matter how many mellinia ago it happened.
Cowardice shouldn't drive policy narrative.
Jihadis have not hijacked religion, they have merely implemented a fifth century version of it.
Islam didn't exist in the 5th century.
Kind of embarrassing.
Wonder if he'll be back to the thread.... that was .... bad.
Really, from OBL's letter fifteen years ago, to the most recent complaints, stuff that happened in the last fifty years is what's brought up.
Over WHERE is that?they seem to never forget anything over there. EVerything is an excuse for a fight no matter how many mellinia ago it happened.
Could you fathom how infuriating it would be to have been Clinton trying to mediate between Arafat and Ehud Barak? I'm sure who killed whom in 800 AD were being argued.
Ah, yes, I get your point. Disputes and grievances, one Middle Easterner to another, probably do transcend millennia. Of course I was referring to the complaints that Middle Easterners have with America.
Yep. Islam was spreading through the use of the sword. The conquests of Christianity expansion isn't exactly bloodless. They also often took the "convert or die" approach from time to time.
This vid shows all major religions' beginning and expansion paths.
Ok, but even your own video shows that Christian expansion was in response to Muslim conquest and aggression.
Until they went across the ocean and brought their Inquisition mentality along with it.
So, when was the last inquisition? Is it even remotely on the scale of Muslim aggression? I think not.
It's the same thing. Convert or die. Religion is a tool for these kinds of guys to grab power over others.
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Ending of the Inquisition in the 19th and 20th centuries
Ok, So nearly 200 years ago....And the practice was outlawed. And this you equate to today and Muslim aggression? How many died during the Inquisitions? I'd bet less than what is going on today with Muslims.
I have said it before...
ALL major religions are a complete and total waste of time.
Religion is for the weak and/or the ignorant and/or the desperate.
Religion is humanities dumbest invention.
Nah... 30 years war which was Catholics going after protestants in central Europe. That itself was 7.5 million on the low end.
Convert or die. Different religion, different time... but same crap.
Don't know much about hisssstory....Nah... 30 years war which was Catholics going after protestants in central Europe. That itself was 7.5 million on the low end.
Convert or die. Different religion, different time... but same crap.
Don't know much about hisssstory....