[The_Reader_David]

Rubbish, it started in the 7th century when the mad followers of the false prophet boiled out of the heathen Arabian peninsula to overrun the Holy Land, Egypt, Syria, northern Arabia (now Jordan), all of which were civilized Christian lands.

Just because the Muslims have been intermittenly restrained by pragmatic rulers (as in the case of the Ottomans, who after the last seige of Vienna started to regard fanatical jihadis as bad for business), and go quiet for generations at a time doesn't mean this isn't just more of the same.

Welcome to the 1300-Years War.

[Sam Gamgee]

Your point about buying off the enemy reminds me of the Barbary pirates. For awhile the US paid them tribute. After a time saner heads prevailed and went to Africa to destroy the pirates once and for all.

[rawcatslyentist]

it's time to convert the unbelievers,,,

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