You know something? I wouldn't mind the history lessons, it's the blinkered way they are put that gets to me! Thus my cut&paste of Muslim conquests lol
The human race, particularly where religion is concerned, has been feuding since the year 'dot', however I read this last paragraph from a news item a couple of years ago when Islam was up in 'arms' about something the Pope quoted from a Byzantine Prince (or someone equally as archaic!).
"Both Christianity and Islam aspire to the divine and they share a theology that is contemptuous of mindless materialism and crass consumerism. Christianity and Islam have rarely sat easily together; but tolerance must not be deliberately destroyed by the intolerant".
You know something? I wouldn't mind the history lessons, it's the blinkered way they are put that gets to me! Thus my cut&paste of Muslim conquests lol
The human race, particularly where religion is concerned, has been feuding since the year 'dot', however I read this last paragraph from a news item a couple of years ago when Islam was up in 'arms' about something the Pope quoted from a Byzantine Prince (or someone equally as archaic!).
"Both Christianity and Islam aspire to the divine and they share a theology that is contemptuous of mindless materialism and crass consumerism. Christianity and Islam have rarely sat easily together; but tolerance must not be deliberately destroyed by the intolerant".