Were Conquered Christians Really Liberated Muslims?

netWMD ^ | April 24, 2011 | Raymond Ibrahim

[forty_years]

... [Fadel Soliman's] new Arabic book, Copts: Muslims Before Muhammad, which he has been promoting all over the media, including al-Jazeera, asserts that, at the time of the Muslim conquest of Egypt (c. 640), the vast majority of Egyptians were not, as history has long taught, Christians, but rather prototypical Muslims, or muwahidin, who were actually being oppressed by Christians: hence, the Muslim conquest of Egypt was really about "liberating" fellow Muslims. Soliman's evidence is that the Arian sect, which rejected the claim that Jesus was coequal with God, was present in 4th century Egypt. Therefore, according to Soliman, the indigenous Egyptians were practicing "proto-Islam" hundreds of years before it was founded in the 7th century. ...

[Biggirl]

And thankfully, the Christian faith is growing more by leaps and bounds, with more people come to faith in Christ each day.

[SunkenCiv]

Sidebar (could be a topic of its own):

Scribbled by a community of nuns —
Ancient Coptic graffiti adorns walls of 3,200 year-old Egyptian temple [in 500 AD]
http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/04/scribbled-by-community-of-nuns-ancient.html

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks! Lots there to keep me busy reading for a while.