The history of Jihad Eastwards is also another story.
The Ottoman Empire started with the conquest of Constantinople. Islam was also at war with itself immediately after Muhammad's death. Dark Age Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus, but Dark Age Islam has everything to do with Muhammad.
I never said it was "peace loving", nor did I say "gently"
Nor am I saying that Jews and Christians were treated as equal to Muslims - they definitely weren't but I am pointing out that they had a legal status that other religions didn't have in the western world - even if, in practice, things weren't as clear cut as that.
And yes, as I said, the situation started changing in the 20th century and has got progressively worse. I'm not denying the situation now but that's not coming from centuries of Jihad. If that was the case, there wouldn't have been any Jews or Christians left in the Middle East by the start of the 20th century ... and that's far from the case
I never have. Its always been assumed. I believe in reasonable controlled immigration, but nobody has ever asked before. The migration from the middle east is a direct consequence of war. A war we effectively initiated as far as IS is concerned. Should people fleeing from war not be offered safe havens?
If this is what you believe, then you have been badly let down, haven't you? I heard on German TV last night that 160,000 were admitted from Syria last year, yet they took in close to a million. As they say, you do the Maths, as to whether the migration, to Germany at least, was due to war. Given that migration from Syria was singularly the biggest, number-wise, then one could not say this was due to Bush or Blair, given that sections of Syrian society are unable to find any sort of compromise, preferring to kill each other and destroy the country in the process. And guess who will pay for the place to be rebuilt!
This is far too simplistic.Blair and Bush created ISIS by their actions. ISIS was controlling substantial parts of Syria.
This is far too simplistic.
Well, not as far as many Syrians trying to flee these maniacs.
I don't understand this at all?? who are the maniacs? Free Syrian army? Russians? Assad's forces? Daesch?
sweet? What sort of sick *******s will find the slaughter of an 84-year-old man saying his prayers 'sweet'
You made your point in the context of the French revolution and the traditional/historical French population. I would srongly doubt you would find many of them finding this slaughter 'sweet'
Blair and Bush created ISIS by their actions. ISIS was controlling substantial parts of Syria.
Absolutely true: never mind the war against the West, Muslims are killing Muslims in far greater numbers.
They're not very good at this
1 guy blew himself up and took no one else with him
These two managed to kill one old guy before both getting killed.
To true,wouldn't it be great if Isis agreed to knock it all on the head if we just handed these pair of ***** over.
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To true,wouldn't it be great if Isis agreed to knock it all on the head if we just handed these pair of ***** over.
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