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Also the Islamic Golden age. Imagine being the empire that spread algebra, Arabic numbers, the start of modern medicine, astronomy, and science but no one knows it came from you. Heartbreaking.
That’s what happens when the successors do everything in their power to destroy your libraries. The destruction of the enemies history and literature is a longstanding human tradition.
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Completely peacful expansion right? Islam is a religion of peace right? No way they conquered, exploited and genocided like other empires right?
Say, seen any Zoroastrian or Nubians lately?
Are you saying they killed Freddie Mercury?
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?
PS: What do you think happened to Zoroastrians and Nubians?
PS2: Genocide is historically not a common affair so I’m not sure what you’re talking about here.
PS3: Islam never claims to be “the religion of peace;” this phrase was created by Westerners for a variety of reasons, so like what?
PS3: Islam never claims to be “the religion of peace;” this phrase was created by Westerners for a variety of reasons, so like what?
As a westerner, I could buy that this is just a piece of propaganda I’ve just heard too many times, but it seems like I’ve heard immigrants from Muslim majority countries say this as well.
Probably a stretch to ask (so no worries if you can’t provide) but can you point to any resources agreeing with your claim on this?
Ok apparently I was wrong. The name was adopted by Western politicians in the wake of 9/11, heavily contributing to its present day (completely undeserved IMO) popularity, but apparently before that it originated and continues to be used for Islamic preaching.
To be fair, it’s probably a little easier when there are far fewer people than there are in modern times.
What? I mean of course there were far fewer people in the Middle East than in modern times, but that’s true everywhere. By area there’s a lot of desert in former Umayyad territory, but still from west to east you had densely populated areas in Iberia, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia and India. At its peak the Umayyad Caliphate contained 13% of the world’s population, so they were definitely no slouches on that front.
You’re saying there were more people in those regions 1200 years ago than today.
Egypt alone has more people in it today than the mongols, Romans or umayyed ever had on their own.
Oh shit I mixed that up. I meant that there are far fewer people there than in modern times.
If your empire doesn’t include Italy it does t count.
And yet people still complain about the Holy Roman Empire not being an empire (Southern Italy doesn’t count).
