[logitech]

This is a great math problem.

Let’s say an evil ideaology leaves Mecca around 700AD and travels west. When will it intersect with civilization?

[Cronos]

701AD — when it hit the nearest civilised countries — Egypt, a center of Christianity (in fact THE center until the 4th century), and Yemen, another Christian (and Jewish) area and Syria (a fully 100% Christian, deeply Christian land)