“Well...Wes was half right. It’s more like a 1,300-year power play.”
Agree, goes back to the Crusades. For the U.S. It starts with the Barbary Wars. It you put this East/West struggle of civilizations in perspective, the periods that Islam has been subdued were when it’s been dealt with severely. Islam and Muslims respect only power and the use of it with brute force. The “can’t we all just get along” crowd here in the west seem to have trouble understanding this.
“Agree, goes back to the Crusades”
Try: 630 AD
Muslims capture Mecca. Ka’ba is cleansed, pilgrimage rites are Islamicized, tribes of Arabia vow allegiance to Muhammad
After the Moslem conquest of the Byzantine provinces of the Levant , the Moslems invaded Egypt in 641.
The persecuted Christian Copts were the inhabitants. Egypt, before the Islamic invasion was not an Arab country.
In 711 an Islamic force invaded the Iberian peninsula and then France. In France, they were turned back by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732.