"Now, it's time for the happy recap." - Bob Murphy War 2007-12
Archives May 22, 2013 WAR/HISTORY: A Timeline of Islamic
Expansion In The Dark Ages Let me put down here some facts that
are worth returning to from time to time, as arguments over the
history of Islam and Islamism are back in the news with today's
beheading in London. In debates over the history of tension
between Muslims and Christians, the Crusades are often cited,
out of their historical context, as the original cause of such
clashes, as if both sides were peaceably minding their own
business before imperialist Westerners decided to go launch a
religious war in Muslim lands. This is not what actually
happened, and indeed it is ahistorical to treat the fragmented
feudal states of the West in the Eleventh Century as capable of
any such thing as imperialism or colonialism (although, as
Victor Davis Hanson has noted, even in the centuries after the
fall of Rome, Western civilization retained a superior
logistical ability to project force overseas