Re: During whose reign did Muslims enter Palestine and liberate Jerusalem?

"AnonMoos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Munafiq wrote:
>
> > During whose reign did Muslims enter Palestine and liberate Jerusalem?
>
> I have no idea, but it was during `Umar bn al-Khattab's caliphate that
> the Arabs launched their unprovoked colonialist aggressive
> expansionist wars against all the surrounding states, including eastern
> Roman (Byzantine) Syria.  The imperialistic aggressive expansionism of
> the Arabs under early Islam would put Cecil Rhodes to shame -- all
> that Cecil Rhodes ever managed to do in the way of launching
> expansionist imperialist aggressive attacks was merely the ill-fated
> Jameson Raid, while the Arabs carved off large chunks of the Byzantine
> Empire and completely destroyed the ancient Persian Empire by their
> unprovoked imperialist aggressive expansionist wars of looting,
> plunder, and conquest.
>
> Of course, Jerusalem wasn't even the capital of Filastin under the Arab
> caliphs -- the capital of the province was first at Lod, then at Ramla.
>

You know something Anonmoose I adivse a little less fiction and a little
more Factual history for you.

I think it'll do you a world of good.