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Ok Wil, here's what was going on in reality.
The Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Empire were at war for generations at this point. They fought themselves hallow basically. Lo and behold the religion of peace starts declaring war with both empires, the Sassanid crumbling first. Then the slow conquest of Anatolia followed. Neither empire delt with the Arabian Penninsula prior, only in trade. To claim it was in self defense to take down the two powerful empires in the region is ubsurd.
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