Whups. That’s one the islamofascists forgot to scour down to the bedrock, like their modern day IS actors have been doing all over the conquered lands of the ME and elsewhere.
A little journalistic revisionism here. Islam itself has no doctrinal or religious appeal for converts except for animalistic men who like the idea of bullying women and of a hedonistic afterlife. From it's earliest days, it was not spread by Christians or anyone else "slowly converting", but by the edge of the sword. Today, they are doing it by out-reproducing Westerners who are contracepting and aborting themselves into oblivion, but violence (or the threat of violence) is still how Islam is sustained.
There’s a case to be made that Islam is an Arabized form of 5th to 6th Century monophosite Christianity.
Possibly pre-dating Islam? I would be more surprised if it was founded after Islam came to the area. Islam doesn’t really tolerate other religions very well in places they control. Just asking to build a church can trigger a massacre.
Well, duh!
The entire Mediterranean basin and Middle East were thriving Christian societies when Islam was invented.
I’m surprised it hasn’t been destroyed by peaceful ragheads
This would be from the Assyrian Church - the ancient church of the east that was and IS headquartered in Ctesiphon, the one-time capital of the Sassanid Persian empire. Ctesiphon is near Babylon and Baghdad.
The Ancient Church of the east stretched from Ctesiphon through the Persian gulf to India and to Mongolia - the wife of Genghis Khan was born into a Christian family belonging to the church of the east.
In the 8th century, fully one third of all Christians belonged to the Ancient Church of the east, lead by the Catholicos in Ctesiphon