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Offline Scotty

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Re: WTF is wrong with you people
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They got completely mowed over several times by several different nations including the Mongol Empire,  Christendom (the Holy Crusades), The Ottoman Empire (though the Ottoman's were Islamic, they still attacked other Islamic countries), European Empire building (ie. namely the British Empire who were limited in expansion by the Ottoman Empire).  Then to "Modern" history with the USSR, the UN with Israel, and now "NATO".

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Afghanistan is an Islamic country is it not?

Yes, but the invasion was conducted solely by the U.S. and U.K.   NATO as an organization not directly involved until well after the incident, and even then in very low numbers.

 

Offline Nuclear1

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They got completely mowed over several times by several different nations including the Mongol Empire,  Christendom (the Holy Crusades), The Ottoman Empire (though the Ottoman's were Islamic, they still attacked other Islamic countries), European Empire building (ie. namely the British Empire who were limited in expansion by the Ottoman Empire).  Then to "Modern" history with the USSR, the UN with Israel, and now "NATO".

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Afghanistan is an Islamic country is it not?

Well yeah, but I wouldn't exactly say ISAF is mowing over Afghanistan...(this coming from someone who's actually fighting the war)
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Offline Kosh

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Re: WTF is wrong with you people
It's a fun notion, but it doesn't account for historical realities. Nor does it acknowledge the minor point that for a substantial period of time the Muslim world was a much nicer place to be than Christendom.

That's the bit I don't get. We recently learned about that in history, and all I could think was, what the hell happened?

The same thing that happened to the christian kingdoms soon after the collapse of Rome: religious fundementalism. Suddenly new ideas weren't tolerated, especially non literal interpretations of holy texts. Islam is still in a Dark Age, and unfortunately I dont see the light at the end of the tunnel (yet). The biggest problem at the moment was Saudi Arabia, their petro dollars have been financing  the spread of radical islam for several decades now with no end in sight.
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