@Flowfy02 Like I said Palestinians have genetic roots to the land and that has been proven through genetic testing. It is also disingenuous to say the jews agreed to share the land when it was infact the Palestinians who agreed to do so.
@Flowfy02 I don't want you to give me a verse and a chapter because the Bible is not an accurate historical book but rather a spiritual book for Christians. You have made statements without historical or academic proof which we can rely on.
This is not true. The notion that Palestinians are the illegal occupiers is not backed by any evidence.
The people in present day Palestine have genetic roots to the land. Of course there will always be genetic admixture because people move and migrate over time.
Links below.
We can also say if any group of people can rightfully demonstrate that they own your land then you must give that land to them because of a permanent contractual agreement with God.
https://t.co/Q3TmZF6i1j
This is not true. The notion that Palestinians are the illegal occupiers is not backed by any evidence.
The people in present day Palestine have genetic roots to the land. Of course there will always be genetic admixture because people move and migrate over time.
Links below.
knowledge of the history of the land. Based on your logic the Jewish people there are also not the rightful owners or the land as they met native occupants there 3000 years ago and massacred them because God told them to do so.
@Nwa_alexander There is no Irony here. Atleast not in the way you are thinking. Egypt will not allow the forced displacement of Palestinians. Accepting Gazans means forfeiting the right of return and thereby giving Israel the opportunity to annex gaza.
@ZayynHassan Don't blame them. Nigerians don't read and don't care to educate themselves. They can turn on Sowore no matter the sacrifices he has made because the hate they have for muslims run deeper.
@DrCroc28 Stop asking us. Go ask the US why the Library of Congress dome has "Islam" written under a figure honoring its contribution to civilization, and why the Supreme Court's own courtroom frieze places Muhammad among the 18 greatest lawgivers in history. Ask them why.
The real picture is both sides raided, conquered, persecuted, and killed across thirteen centuries of contact. Neither "Islam attacked first" nor "Christians were worse" survives contact with the actual record. You are a Christian and want to score cheap points. Understood.
Your al-Hakim write-up leaves out the other half of the story.
Before 1009, Byzantine emperors (Nikephoros Phokas, John Tzimiskes) ran their own aggressive campaigns deep into Muslim Syria for decades. Sieges, burned crops, starved towns.
You accuse Christianity of the “Crusades,” but what were they, and why did they happen?
This is Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Islamic ruler who conquered Jerusalem in 996.
He was called the “Mad Caliph.” Why? Because of what he did to Christians and Jews in Jerusalem.
These were some of the things he did to Christians and Jews:
He had the tongues of Coptic Christians cut out in an attempt to stop their religious rituals.
He ordered Christians to wear large crosses around their necks weighing 2 kg.
He ordered Jews to wear bells around their necks. He also ordered them to sleep during the day and work at night.
He gravely oppressed both Jews and Christians.
What became one of the major catalysts in the buildup to the Crusades was his destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
That was the church built over the traditional site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial, and resurrection.
The destruction was an attempt to erase the Christian memory associated with the site.
According to Yahya ibn Sa'id, his order was:
“Demolish the church of the resurrection so that no trace of it remained.”
It was after this, in November 1095, that Pope Urban II called the First Crusade at Clermont in the West.
Against this backdrop was centuries of Muslim conquest of formerly Christian territories.
In 634 AD, just two years after Muhammad’s death, the Muslim conquest of the Levant began under Caliph Abu Bakr.
Around 50,000 Christian soldiers were killed.
After years of warfare and exhaustion, Jerusalem surrendered in 637 AD to Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab.
Patriarch Sophronius personally handed the key to the city to him.
Within just a few decades of Muhammad’s death, the first caliphs had conquered vast territories, with Christians making up much of the population of the lands conquered in Egypt, Jerusalem, and Syria.
The conquests eventually extended into Persia, North Africa, Spain, and elsewhere.
It was Charles Martel, in 732 AD at the Battle of Tours, who was able to repel a Muslim force that had advanced into Frankish territory.
So, the Crusades cannot simply be presented as unprovoked Christian aggression.
They arose within the context of centuries of Muslim conquest, warfare, persecution, and the loss of Christian territories.
So what exactly is your point?
I don’t even want to get into colonization.
The Arabs were themselves major imperial powers, and the history of Islamic expansion cannot simply be separated from imperial conquest.
Sundiata Keita was an imperial ruler of the Mali Empire.
And the wars in the Middle East?
Many of them were fought by secular Arab nationalist states, not simply by religious Christians or Muslims.
Your points are mostly baseless.
Picking one caliph's crimes to justify one war while ignoring the violence Christian armies committed before, during, and after it isn't history. It's a highlight reel.