Contentions of Medieval History and the Truth About Developing Western Culture After Oriental Expeditionary Incursions

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Aug 24, 2022 at 18:52

In admission of not having read the tome "Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe," one does not need to get past the introduction to begin imagining a revisionistic approach to the development of Western Europe and the 'clash of civilizations' being perpetrated in the name of religion. The observer easily surmises this book is aout religious infuences and how today, revisionism is the tool being employed to argue the alteration of civil soceities based upon the prevailing precepts of a dominant religous perspective. Islam has the history of winnng the religious argument as long as they won victories in the field; this trend was defeated in Europe initally; and later in Turkiye when the Europeans quashed the last modern bastion of Islam's Ottoman Empire's influences in the Middle East.
Though in many places Islam has remained a force to be reckoned with, one only needs to see that the divisions amongs the Sunni (Wahabism), Shiite (Iranian Islamic Regime), the mystic Sufism and others bring about the questions of whether resurgent Islamism can do more than be the instigators of the proxy terrorism that seems to be sources of distractions in Europe and thl rest of the world, apparently in retatiation for having lost to the Western influences in the first place. Now Islam says to the world, 'stay out of Asia and the Middle East or incur the wrath of Islam out of control of itself. That contention is coming up - watch Syria when the Russians get their ambitions up and scramble with Turkiye to solidify their holdings there.

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