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To: annalex

A lot more history in general needs to be examined, especially about the Mediterranean world. It’s a complex, very long history not well sited to the idiocy which passes for public/political discussion in the West these days; nothing simple about it. For example, notwithstanding their at least nominal Mohammedanism, the Palestinians and even more so the Syrians, are Hellenistic people. I remember talking with a Palestinian fellow many years ago who remarked to me that his people were the Byzantines left behind when the rest of us lit out as the Arabs and their Mohammedanism showed up.


20 posted on 09/29/2015 8:33:16 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis

Th fact remains that the Muslim conquest was a geopolitical disaster that we may be allowing to repeat today.

Yes, I agree that distinctions should be made between the peoples of Islamic faith: not every one is slicing throats and destroying their own culture.

On the topic of Armenian genocide of the massacre of Smyrna, horrific as they were it was not a geopolitical event of the scale that ISIS and the mass migration to Germany and Britain is. Our civilization or what remains of it is deliberately dissolving itself. That is unprecedented.


24 posted on 09/30/2015 7:44:05 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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