Hi Morgan,

For the most part, I agree with what you have written below .. people want to live in their clans and remain happy, healthy and whole .. Then you have the few in charge who want to leave a trail of chopped off body parts in their wake.. So, they stir up armies (in the name of some religion) and march off to conquest..

This article claims that radical islam is a more recent thing. .. hmmm perhaps that is not so true.. Like all races and cultures they share horrible, conquering pasts..

History is a wee bit of a passion of mine and I can remember many islamic conquests. After they overcame the city or region (many were rounded up and killed) the remaining people had to convert, pay a tax, lose their heads & body parts or die.. Some men were emasculated and enslaved; women were for sex, selling-trading, house slavery or child-rearing.

Some of the conquests that I can remember 'off the top of my head' (pun intended :-) ..

Arabia
Iraq - Ullays (particularly brutal)
Yarmuk in Syria
Damascus
Sicily, Palermo and Sardinia, Italy

Vienna
Huge parts of France
North Africa - Morocco - Tripoli and Egypt
Much of Spain and especially Cordova and Toledo, Spain..
Indus Valley
Jerusalem and Nicea are such contested areas (who owns what) but those too..

Then you have the brutal treatment of slaves, women etc..

imho, all races have war lorded it, conquered, plundered, raped, pillaged, forced, enslaved and on and on.. Before the indian wars, indians fought each other constantly and enslaved. Vikings did it, Saracens, Africans, Incans, Mayans... everyone..

If anything it wasn't religion that made them reach out to take over and take from their neighbors.. it was greed and lust..

OK, back to work..

Lynda

: Yes, when people have what they need and are happy; they
: generally leave everyone else alone. If there's a fight for
: limited resources, first people get very tribal, clannish,
: and want to eliminate the competition which is everyone not
: like themselves, and then after that; it gets kinda
: Darwinian. Women and children first. . .into the stew pot.

: Wasabiism. . .I mean Wahhabiism is one HELL of a chain to wear
: for a few temporal comforts though, isn't it? LOCK ME IN
: RIKERS ISLAND SO I CAN GET MY THREE SQUARES A DAY! And the
: brain dead programmed ones not only don't see it, they
: REFUSE TO SEE IT even if it's thrown in their face.

: I wonder how many in the KSA are fed up with the system, but
: don't dare admit it for fear of being executed in the worst
: way possible?

: And it's not just radical Islam. It's radical EVERYTHING. And
: who is ultimately responsible for the mess in the Middle
: East? Look what the u.s. is supporting now regarding the
: destruction of Yemen, Syria, and everything else that
: Israel wants.

: Gods, I can't believe I volunteered to come into this cesspit.
: I obviously had a negative numbers IQ moment. I have my ego
: to thank for that. The next time I see it, I'm gonna tie it
: to the railroad tracks!

: Now off to bestgore.com I go to see what more abuse the human
: race purveys on itself in a most colourful fashion.