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Yes, they called them 'separatists.' Disgusting.

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Mohammed was the original 'separatist.' He destroyed the nascent glimmer of an emerging Arabic civilization when he divided Mecca along sectarian lines after he decided he wasn't getting a big enough slice of the pie. From Medina he went on to establish a bandit kingdom attracting other malcontents with promises of their deserved booty if they would only split their societies as well and join him. The core strategy of Islam is divide, conquer, assimilate. Star Trek and the Borg have nothing on Islam.