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Originally Posted by Seaver
The reforms that are needed to undergo are on their side. When the Crusaders marched into Jerusalem and massacred half the city and proclaimed all infadels must die (sound familiar?), no one would argue now that it was the Muslims (who allowed the brothers of the book to worship as they may, and were granted great freedoms and protections under the law... sound familiar?) who must make reforms.
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Spurious. The world was totally different then. There WAS no such thing as global politics. There were no superpowers. There was no single nation whose economy and culture was hedgemonically exported worldwide, to the general detriment of other nations. You've compared an apple and a hubcap.