re: #206 ProLifeLiberal

To be more precise, Cracked had a well sourced little thing here:

The Byzantines were not nice. Not even remotely. There’s a reason the Rashidun were able to so rapidly take over much of it. The Byzantines were very abusive towards the Monophystic Christians and Jews. When offered a better deal by the Rashidun Caliphate, they flipped. Only the Coptic Church had a strong enough organization to keep any number of followers.

Erdogan was in Egypt in the past year, during which he called the Byzantine Empire a dark country. I have an extremely hard time disagreeing, looking at the history.

Yeah, they had gone way down after Hericlinus (I’m sure I spelled the name wrong). He was one of their few truly great leaders, though he did live to see much of the empire overrun by the armies of Islam (although his forces were somewhat caught out of position).

Disclaimer Note: I have only stated facts. While I mentioned the early Muslim armies, I did not say anything disparaging or bigoted about them. This is put in due to the topic, in order to make clear I’m not using any code words in this post. What you see is what you get.