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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3696521" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Istanbul was Constantinople, overrun by Islam.  Europeans fought hundreds of battles with Muslims across southern Europe.  Muslim armies went as far north as southern Ukraine.  It's not just Christians that fought them.  You need to bone up on your history.  Islam didn't spread by missionaries, it spread by the sword.  We come down hard on what the Spanish did in the New World.  Where do you think the Spaniards learned their brutality?  Few countries suffered more under Muslim domination than Spain.  Because Christianity is the dominant religion in the U.S. the nonbelievers want to believe it's evil and elevate anything at odds with it.  But they're either ignorant or disingenuous about Islam's history.</p></blockquote><p></p>