Muscle_Man1993 t1_j85pf9p wrote on February 11, 2023 at 8:48 PM

Reply to comment by No-Independence828 in A former Spanish disco-pub confirmed as lost medieval Synagogue by haberveriyo

People are more skeptic and untrusting of anyone who is not a native.

And I can’t blame them. Look at almost every single ”ally” of the Arab nations and what they did to them. America was an ally with Iraq against Iran. Look at how that ended.

Oh, and the colonization. We can’t forget that!

rehtulx t1_j86vkay wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:08 AM

>Oh, and colonization. We can’t forget that.

Then don’t be selective with your memory—starting with Mohammad, Islam was spread primarily by warfare and colonization.

Muscle_Man1993 t1_j877og4 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 3:50 AM

Common misconception.

The majority of the “Muslim” empire was not Muslim. It was under Muslim rule, but none of them were forced to be Muslim.

Islam was and is spread through reasoning and people just being convinced by it.

I don’t deny the battles, that’s just ignorant, but if you don’t know the motive behind these battles then I would suggest you properly study them before trying to claim something that doesn’t exist. They were mainly caused by self defence. The Persian empire and the Roman Empire didn’t like the new upcoming Islamic nation. Then the Byzantine empire and all the following and “coexisting” empires and nations.

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Muscle_Man1993 t1_j88qs60 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:27 PM

Never mentioned anything about converting from Islam. I was speaking about people who were not Muslims that they are not forced to be Muslims.

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No-Independence828 t1_j89l2fa wrote on February 12, 2023 at 6:00 PM

Guys, one thing is the Islam 1000 years ago, and another very different is today. We can see greatness in the past and analyse the reasons why everything is so fucked up now with Islam and Arab nations.

No-Independence828 t1_j85tdcp wrote on February 11, 2023 at 9:16 PM

You are totally right there, the last hundred years of history and geo politics have not been kind on Arab nations. Hope one day peace and tolerance become the norm again.