We can always learn from history

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Nov 23, 2015 at 17:03

Thank you Dave very interesting indeed

The Islamic historical tradition which is very late and as expected tendentious provides very different reasons for the Arab invasion starting in 633CE For example in the case of Egypt we are told that the Copts were persecuted by the Greeks/Byzantines And the Arabs invaded Egypt inorder to help the Copts

Logic would dictate if this was indeed true then why did the Arabs not leave Egypt after the Greek fleet left Alexandria for Constantinople in 645CE (Egypt was invaded by the Arabs in 642CE) ?

Modern scholaship debunks such claim which really means that the Arab Mu'arikheen (historians) were making things up

Also modern scholarship of the period of the Arab invasions is also debunking the Islamic history about great battles and that the Arab invasion was not about the speard of islam which did not exist this early on but it was about the Arab polity that replaced the Greek and Persian polity that were exhausted by the very long Greek Persian was 616CE to 629CE

And with the Arab polity came the Arabs and they stayed and the rest is history

Most significant is the majority of those very ancient civilizations in the Middle East that were Christian Jewish and pagan became Arabic speakers and Muslims

Could this be what we are really witnessing in Europe? Only time will tell

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