anotherlife
Gold Member
There may be a lot of manipulation about this in the media. But that "radical" Islam is more isolated than the norm is a cliche that liberal socialist western governments use to pacify reaction to all sorts of government initiated atrocities. It is a fact recorded in history, that it was the Muslims that depopulated south east Europe. We could open a discussion whether the Muslims should depopulate Western Europe too. In either case, the Byzantine Varangian guard and Charles the Hammer were effective in establishing a long term boundary against Muslim expansion even before technology gave the west an edge.If you ignore the constant war between Muslim and Christians you could say that..It was not until christian nations attained more firepower that the christians started to push back and contain the Muslim armies, and eventually occupy Muslim lands at will.....Yes, but nationalism did double Islam down, in all its violence. At least in my observation. The Ottoman Empire has never imagined to be as belligerent as the Muslims today, and the Ottomans were no sissies.Islam has never not been radical. Radical since 622 AD and the writing and distribution of the Koran. 270 million people killed by marauding Muslims since then, exporting their lunacy around the planet.Well, it is true, that it was the western nation states than exported nationalism into Islam, and thus radicalized Islam. Something a western academic will never think of.
The whole radical Islam portion is not as wide spread among Muslims as some would have you believe..It is only certain tribes or organizations which practice it, and it is used as a tool against Muslim govts. also..