You don’t defend modern Muslims by lying about Medieval history
Washington Examiner — Immigration
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- Modern American Muslims are not seventh-century armies, and political argument becomes diseased when ancestry is treated like perpetual criminal liability.
- But the mirror-image mistake matters too: Defending modern Muslims does not require us to sanitize medieval Muslim conquest.
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The Washington Examiner recently published an argument against Christians playing “crusader” in Dearborn, Michigan. Good. Modern American Muslims are not seventh-century armies, and political argument becomes diseased when ancestry is treated like perpetual criminal liability.
But the mirror-image mistake matters too: Defending modern Muslims does not require us to sanitize medieval Muslim conquest. When Arab-Muslim […]
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