——That wasn’t free land—it was in the Roman empire, under the rule of Valens—and so Fritigern, who was leading the Goths asked to “be received by him as his subjects, promising to live quietly, and to furnish a body of auxiliary troops if any necessity for such a force should arise.” Rome had a lot to gain from this. Those lands needed cultivating, and more soldiers were always welcome by the empire. “By combining the strength of his own people with these foreign forces,” Marcellinus writes of Valens, “he would have an army absolutely invincible.”——
——As a sign of gratitude to Valens, Fritigern converted to Christianity.——
To relate this historic event to an Islamic invasion happening today in the form of a refuge crisis is apple and oranges...
There is no assimilation or acceptance of western culture or living quietly..
They promised to be good citizens, and when the freebees didn’t work out they revolted.
I agree the situation today is worse, but even this better situation didn’t work out so well.
Thus a teachable moment.