Arnon Har- Lev :
what's missing from this account is the timeline, and therefore the full understanding of how those Middle Eastern countries became Christian in the first place, and then Muslim. So I'll give you a quick overview- Alexander the Great came from Greece in 336 BCE and conquered all those countries, his troops -and later Greek scholars and artists- transformed the countries into a Greek culture/ Helenistic/Pagan, than around the the 1st century BCE the Roman empire came into power over Greece itself and all its colonies in the Middle East, same culture basically, cause they themselves stsrted out as a Greek- influenced tiny city in Italy, only they spoke Latin instead of Greek. In 70 CE the Roman 10th legion crushed a rebellion in the Hebrew kingdom of Jodea, part of the Middle Eastern formerly Greek sphere of influence and military control, and expelled most Hebres to nearby nations, most notably Alexandria in Egypt, Damascus in Syria, Turkey, Greece, Ethiopia, etc. Those Hebrew expat communities were the first "Christians", and for 300 years saw themselves as Hebrew. Gradually they detached from the original religion and became "Christian", than the entire Roman Empire in those parts followed suit. 400 years later, in the 8th century CE, Islam was created in Saudi Arabia, and started its bloody Jihadi conquest out of Saudi Arabia and into all those other lands, killing many millions in the process. The Crusaders came only 300 years later, as a response for that expansionist wave, that reached by that time well into Europe itself, conquered Spain, Greece, Turkey, all of the Balkans, up to Hungary. The crusades came to free Israel of Muslim conquest which killed and robbed many Christian pilgrims, it wasn't a "European war of conquest over the Muslim world", as it is presented today by the Leftist, Qatari- funded school system in the West. Far from it.
2026-07-18 10:34:40