[stars & stripes forever]

In the twelve years after Mohammed’s death, 632-644 AD, Muslim jihadists conquered the Eastern Roman Empire, Syria, Palestine, Eastern Anatolia, Armenia, Upper Egypt, Lower Egypt and North Africa.

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs155/1108762609255/archive/1123251398434.html

[Lera]

Before that the slaughtered over 700 Jews in Medina .