[marktwain]

Exacty.

Islam is a religion of conquest and enslavement.

It only stopped when the West (Europe) made it stop through military force.

That is the “catastrophe” referred to in the book.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Islam. When worshipping Satan just isn’t evil enough.

[SJackson]

Yes, though you have to remember John Sobieski at Vienna in the East. Then there's the south, the attacks in Italy and the Vatican were raids. And then there's the Emirate of Sicily, which ruled for two centuries, thrown out by Europeans. And then there's the Levant, once Christian governed. I could add today's Turkey. And North Africa. All conquest with the intent of religious conquest or enslavement.

I thought I'd just expand the European thing, but enough, I'm not going into sub Saharian Africa. And the far east, the pacific islands. A lot of conquest.

And now, North America