counterpart by more than a thousand years. However, I realise that's not a popular view on the left, since it involves laying the blame at the door of Islam and its adherents, which is forbidden.
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counterpart by more than a thousand years. However, I realise that's not a popular view on the left, since it involves laying the blame at the door of Islam and its adherents, which is forbidden.
spilling blood for in a geopolitical context and I've mocked people who think we invaded Iraq to secure oil, which is demonstrable nonsense.
Anything to keep the judeo-christian hands clean, eh?
Sure, point to the Ottomans or the shortlived Arab Nationalists if you like but it's hardly a convincing argument.
We should probably leave it here though. As usual, we're the last two standing/bothered.
ignore the fact that it's absolutely fundamental (as it were) to modern radical Islam.
We beatify and lionise warriors in an equally distasteful way, distasteful to me anyway.
subjugate the rest of the world 'by the sword' as part of our religious duty.
All successful military societies lionise warriors. It's only loser countries that don't.
apart from that they both seem to have the same goals