Re: The Crusades
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Nicky, Islam has always been a totalitarian system, and Mohammad and his armies spread it by the sword.
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No, it hasn't - totalitarianism is largely a 20th century phenomena.
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Nicky, change the words to "totalitarian-like" or "fascistic" (instead of "fascist"). Quite simply, Mohammed and his armies killed or enslaved those who resisted their absolutist ideology and the rule of Islam; the luckier ones managed to avoid those fates and subsisted in a life of second-class legal status, forever consigned to having less rights and privileges than Muslims, and ever living under the threat of death should they not abide by their second-class status as dhimmis.
You may perhaps define "totalitarianism" and "fascism" as 20th century developments, technically speaking: but things of fairly similar nature were going on long before the 20th century.
Also, Nicky: the Taliban, and the Wahhabis, and the mullahs of Iran, and even bin-Laden and Zarqawi, generally are more correct in their interpretations of Islam, than are "moderate" Muslims. Don't believe it? Maybe reading the Koran you would change your mind.
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