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by candiodari 3322 days ago
Yes. Since you seem to be a fan of hyperbole, allow me to put why in hyperbole :

The islamic conquest started in a small village near Mecca, more like a square with some tents. Big tents, but tents. This is according to their own legend. Now on the lands they conquered and massacred their way across, there is about a billion people that are very different from the original inhabitants of those lands.

Let put em back in that small village and give Saudi Arabia back to the Jews (the south) and recreate the Eastern Roman Empire and give the North to them !

The same modulo historic details is true for Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, even Africa. The group currently living there either fought or massacred it's way to control of those lands.

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It surprises me that "Hitler was wrong" is hyperbole now.

The Islamic conquests are the same situation as the American conquests: numbers make it impossible to give the land back to the surviving descendants of the conquered, but they shouldn't be treated as second-class citizens of their own countries. The conquerors' descendants should stop celebrating the conquest; they should acknowledge that what their ancestors did was profoundly wrong; and they should give the conquered peoples more privileges and social prestige than the conquerors, not less.