Dutch on islam

[rickinator9]

They conquered others before, as Pape said, live by the sword, die by the sword, it is a lesson the West (particularly America) shouldnt forgot.

The Muslims lived by the sword and now they are still here. Why is this an exception for them then?

[Papewaio]

Considering most of the Islamic violence is between different sects one only has to look at the Middle East to figure out how successful nations are that have so much violence.

Likewise how well did the Protestant vs Catholic violence help Ireland and NIs economies?

[The Stranger]

The Muslims lived by the sword and now they are still here. Why is this an exception for them then?

it is not

[Hax]

anyway back to the issue at hand, i think Hax has it right, i never heard that there was any more desctruction than normal in that time when a country was conquered by a foreign military. as for allowing other religions, in those times i thought the muslims were more tolerant, or atleast pragmatic, in their approach.

It's even better than that: there's no archaeological evidence for massive burning and looting at all. It's more like a rather smooth transition to power that went unnoticed by most people, or that's what we think nowadays.