[eleni121]

Arabs hired many unpaid Byzantine military units so they could undertake what turned into their conquest of all of North Africa.

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Where are you getting this crap from? Some toilet? You have exaggerated the importance of the aryans possibly. But to say that Byzantine armies fought with yemeni/other arab muslims to conquer North Africa...ludicrous gibberish! And insulting to their heroic memories.

[muawiyah]

They converted, free of charge.

That's the funny thing about armies, if you don't pay them they may go to work for somebody else.

I know, you're one of those guys who believes no Christian would willingly become a Moslem. Unfortunately that still goes on today ~ a couple of them were in on that terror threat the other day directed at airplanes.

There are numerous books out there concerning the rise of Islam ~ most of them written by non Moslems since it's so very risky for a Moslem to write something another Moslem might dispute. They consider all "differences of opinion" concerning the rise of Islam to be religious matters worthy of getting your throat cut.

So, you're safe in reading most of the books about that period of time ~ they are written mostly by Christians.