The Thirteen-Hundred-And-Eighty-Nine-Year War
Posted By: DVC, 8/30/2021 6:39:50 PM
During an interview regarding the recent suicide attack on Kabul airport, a former Navy SEAL quipped that no one making military decisions for the United States seems to have read a history book. Lack of knowledge, he implied, is partly why America is suffering a humiliating and unconscionable defeat in Afghanistan. Here, then, is a short skeletal history of Muslim-Christian relations beginning with Islam’s founding in 622 AD by Muhammad, an Arab military leader intent on unifying the Arab world and conquering the rest. The lessons learned might put us on the right path forward. Muhammad died in 632 and, soon thereafter, his followers began Muslim military advances into the Christian Levant.
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During an interview regarding the recent suicide attack on Kabul airport, a former Navy SEAL quipped that no one making military decisions for the United States seems to have read a history book. Lack of knowledge, he implied, is partly why America is suffering a humiliating and unconscionable defeat in Afghanistan.
Here, then, is a short skeletal history of Muslim-Christian relations beginning with Islam’s founding in 622 AD by Muhammad, an Arab military leader intent on unifying the Arab world and conquering the rest. The lessons learned might put us on the right path forward.
Muhammad died in 632 and, soon thereafter, his followers began Muslim military advances into the Christian Levant.
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the Current Ruling Class to the Dustbin
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I have seen enough videos and read about enough officer-civilian interactions to know that the act of subduing a lethal threat requires several rounds.
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Biden speech - live: President discusses
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US troops leave Kabul 26 replies
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With last troops out of Afghanistan, House
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GOP plans 'accountability' for
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I studied much of this history on my own initiative, and have been aware of the danger of Islam for many years, after learning almost nothing useful about it in HS and college history. That this is not taught is a huge failing of education.
Worth knowing and passing on, I think. Most of our leaders are ignorant of this, or at least pretend to be.