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In a major encyclopedia one reads phrases such as "Islam expanded in the eighth or ninth century"; "this or that county passed into Muslim hands". But care is taken not to say HOW Islam expanded, how countries passed into Muslim hands. Indeed, it would seem as if events happened by themselves, through a miraculous or amicable operation. Regarding this expansion little is said about JIHAD. And yet it all happened through war! The jihad is an institution, and not an event, that is to say it is part of the normal functioning of the Muslim world. The conquered populations change status (they become DHIMMIS), and the SHARIA tends to be put into effect integrally, overthrowing the former law of the country. The conquered territories do not simply change owners.

-Jacques Ellul

Abu Bakr organized the invasion of Syria which Mohammad had already envisaged. He gathered tribes from....to plunder the countryside.Consequently the whole Gaza region up to Cesarea was sacked and devastated in the campaign of 634 AD. Four Thousand Jewish, Christian, and Samaritan peasants who defended their homeland were massacred. According to the Muslim chronicler Baladhuri (892 AD) 40,000 Jews lived in Caesarea alone at the Arab conquest, after which ALL trace of them is LOST.

-Bat Yeor summarizing the Arab Muslim conquest of Palestine



"But by the Grace of God I am that I am"

-Paul



A report that Philip was marching on the town had thrown all Corinth into a bustle; one was furbishing his arms, another wheeling stones, a third patching the wall, a fourth strengthening a battlement, every one making himself useful somehow or other. Diogenes having nothing to do - of course no one thought of giving him a job - was moved by the sight to gather up his philosopher's cloak and begin rolling his tub-dwelling energetically up and down the Craneum; an acquaintance asked for, and got, the explanation: "I do not want to be thought the only idler in such a busy multitude; I am rolling my tub to be like the rest."

- Lucian, Historia, 3.

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