[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

as the Christians increase in number and expand into Muslim-dominated terrtories.

Actually for more than 50 years Christians have decreased in number relative to Moslems, and have been withdrawing from Muslim-dominated territories during that period. And the conflict (in the terms I suggest) is between the main-stream Christians, and the Arian-descended Moslems not between the Arian Christians and the Muslims.

[dansangel]

My bad....that's what I get for trying to answer before I've completely woken up.

Thanks for the clarification. It seems I suffered from a case of dyslexia in that I confused the origins of each side.

I appreciate the information.