After Mo died 632 his position was then filled by a series of Caliphs, they continued the expansionist policy of imperialism and colonialism as they spread Islam by the sword. I'll outline the history into Europe, but don't forget the expansionist policy also spread west into North Africa all the way to Morocco, and further East to China.  I'll be brief in my outline: <br><br>By 668 jihad manifested itself outside the walls of Constantinople <br><br>711 Islamic armies invaded Spain <br><br>800 years of fighting followed until 1492 <br><br>The jihad engulfed more nations than the Palestine-bound Crusades (there were 8 of these between 1096 and 1270, less than 200 years, they wanted to establish themselves in the holy land which was formerly Christian) <br><br>Far grander jihad continued as Muslims wanted to take and occupy Europe and Islamize it. Large parts of Europe were taken and occupied for centuries, sometimes devastated and some of it Islamized. <br><br>Spain<br>Portugal<br>France<br>Italy<br>Sicily<br>Austria<br>Bosnia<br>Serbia<br>Croatia<br>Hungary<br>Romania<br>Wallachia<br>Albania<br>Moldavia<br>Bulgaria<br>Greece<br>Armenia<br>Georgia<br>Poland<br>Ukraine<br>Eastern and southern Russia <br><br>All Jihad battlefields where Islam conquered or was conquered. Many of those lands were occupied by Muslims, in some cases by Arabs or Moors, in others by Ottoman Turks, usually for hundreds of years. <br><br>Spain 800 years<br>Portugal 600<br>Greece 500<br>Sicily 300<br>Serbia 400<br>Bulgaria 500<br>Romania 400<br>Hungary 150 years - a place particularly ruined/plundered and ravaged and it took 200 years to recover. <br><br>Muslims came and occupied a huge part of Europe, the Turks besieged Vienna twice in 1529 and 1683. Their cavalry raided central Europe, riding into Bavaria almost as far as Nuremberg. They fought in Poland and the Ukraine, crushed Hungary, occupied Belgrade and Budapest for hundreds of years. <br><br>The Moors and the Arabs took Spain and Portugal, invaded France through the Pyrenees, turned Sicily into an Islamic island, raided Rome, sacked St Peter's and obliged the pope to pay tribute. From their base near St Tropez they raided Switzerland as far as Lake Constance on the German border. The pirates of the Barbary coast raided England, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland and brought back thousands of slaves for the markets of Constantinople (after they had turned it into Istanbul) and North Africa. The Mongols threatened Moscow, occupied the Crimea and became Tatars. The Persians marched into Georgia, so did the Turks, who also occupied Armenia. <br><br>Some imagine that the sack of Jerusalem in 1099 was the start of the hostility between Islam and the West, they handily ignore the capture of Jerusalem from the Christians in 638, the invasion of Spain some 70 years later by the Arabs and Moors, and the subsequent 800 year occupation in whole or in part of the Iberian peninsula. <br><br>It is interesting that the west has by-and-large forgotten this history, but it hasn't been forgotten by orthodox muslims, those who see the eventual expulsion of the invading force as a shame, and who seek to take back the lands of Al Andalus etc. <br><br>It is in quite stark contrast that western Europeans do not celebrate their colonialist past, yet there are significant numbers of those within dar-ul-Islam who consider their colonialism to be a glorious one.,(reply>), @KENO playing with dolls, and how alleged prophet Mo struck her and hurt her in the chest. <br>Apparently Aisha was Mo's favourite wifey too, so we can only imagine how he treated the other ones who were less loved than the young Aisha. <br><br>I wonder how much he loved Safiyah the Jewess, the widow of Kenana ibn al-Rabi that Mo married? Mo killed Kenana, tortured him, then beheaded him. He may not have been the nicest person (but then the story will be biased against him because it was written by faithful Muslims, history written by the winner and all that...) but then its harsh to kill a man and bed his widow in just 3 days.<br>Imaginr being Safiyah, she must have spent the rest of her life living in fear knowing how Mo was and what he was capable of doing. <br><br>Anyway, I digress... <br><br>Of course all this wouldn't matter if people didn't see alleged prophet Mo as a moral compass, if they didn't see him as a prophet. They like to emulate him as well as venerate him, this is why the mullahs in Pakistan insist that a girl over 9 years old is fair game for a wife so long as she has STARTED puberty. Its funny how some make out that its the unbelievers who insist that Aisha was a child when its Muslims who do so, learn'd imams and mullahs and mufties.  They make out that the unbelievers who think Aisha was a child are being one-sided, they ask all kinds of questions that they don't ask of their Muslim mullahs and imams who also say Aisha was a child bride. <br><br>Its funny watching the believers get angry with the kuffar for saying that Aisha was a child bride like we made it up, when all we are doing is agreeing with centuries of tafsir, Islamic sources. These apologists can't get angry with us when their fellow Muslims agree with us 🤷🏻🤦 <br><br>When all the Muslims of the world agree that Aisha was an adult and they stop marrying children as a result, then I'll have a good look at their evidence and perspectives, but if they can't convince other Muslims then why do they think they can convince the 'kuffar'?,(reply>), @Richard S More tears,(reply>), @KENO  Mecca was a place of pilgrimage way before Mohammed. The meteorite/Black Stone from Jannah was already venerated, and the throwing stones at pillars thing happened too. The whole economy revolved around selling trinkets to pilgrims and giving them food and board. When Mo came along and told them they were all wrong and he had the knowledge of the only real god it made him a bit of a party-pooper, he was going to ruin their businesses and the economy, so they booted him out for spoiling the fun. He went off to Yathrib and returned with a vengeance and a large enough force of armed men who were experienced with the many battles - 29?? - that Mo lead as he peacefully spread Islam by the sword, when offered with submission or death the population unsurprisingly capitulated.,(reply>), Nah they should have removed the Christians in the countries you listed. Just as the Christian's did in sub Sahara Africa and the continent of America. The Muslims were way more merciful for their time.,(reply>), Cry