[muawiyah]

What an amazingly stupid response on your part. Did you think the Moslems went through a 700 year war with Byzantium without picking up some of their bad habits?

BTW, if you want to be Orthodox that's your business. At the same time recognize that the Orthodox church WAS NOT THE STATE in Byzantium. In fact, the emperor made sure things worked the other way around.

(Aside to others ~ sometimes you can sympathize with the Moslems who've had to deal with this nonsense for the last 1400 years ~ some Orthodox take even the slightest criticism of Byzantium as a criticism of Christianity. Personally, it doesn't bother me to encounter criticism of the very authoritarian, "moustache pete" style of governance found in Byzantium. In fact, I find it difficult to differentiate between Byzantine theory of government and modern fascism ~ mostly because the Byzantines perfected that system.)

[eleni121]

Your comments are just weird...that is why I am not calling on the moderator. I'll just let you embarrass yourself on your own.

But it does sound like you are on a crystal meth downer.

[Bokababe]

And all this bizarre drivel re Byzantium has to do with the subject of this article, how? In fact, it doesn't. You just used it as an excuse to rant on about Byzantium.

No, I don't feel sorry for the Moslems and the Byzantine Empire hasn't been around for about 700 years, so Islam has no excuse. Get over it.

[Admin Moderator]

Enough. Knock it off.