Mohammed rolled together in one remarkable man the roles of prophet and saint and warrior and king and pope. And Islam in a century plus had an empire sprawling from Spain to Baghdad to Eastern Europe to North Africa. Human nature and history are filled with darkness and light and few easy answers.
I was criticized for a comment I had made speaking on Islamic conquest and their brutality and speed. I was told, among other things, that they were not "settler colonialists" and never intended to be.
Mohammed rolled together in one remarkable man the roles of prophet and saint and warrior and king and pope. And Islam in a century plus had an empire sprawling from Spain to Baghdad to Eastern Europe to North Africa. Human nature and history are filled with darkness and light and few easy answers.
I was criticized for a comment I had made speaking on Islamic conquest and their brutality and speed. I was told, among other things, that they were not "settler colonialists" and never intended to be.
I might ask then what the intent was behind their many conquests.