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2021-12-23 India-Pakistan

Kerala hit by another Islamic radicalisation wave: Time to act, its now or never

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-12-23 00:24|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
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#1 I believe that the name Sayyid Quote should read Sayyid Qutb, the ultra-radical Egyptian Islamist. Also, the radical Islamist protagonist was not killed by Romans. He was killed in Egypt by troops of the Byzantine Emperor.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-12-23 08:03|| 2021-12-23 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 In Muslim historical parlance, the Byzantines were known as Romans. To be fair, that’s also what they called themselves, if I understand correctly, Constantinople being their new Rome.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-12-23 08:37|| 2021-12-23 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Sayyid Qutb died in 1966, but his followers could have been pushing his writings on the subject thereafter.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-12-23 08:46|| 2021-12-23 08:46|| Front Page Top

#4 The Byzantines were the Romans -- Constantine moved the capitol to Byzantium, later Constantinople, and once the Western emperors fell (Romulus Augustulus being the last), the last remnant of the Empire was the East.

They (initially) spoke Latin, their legal code traced all the way back to the Republic, and they maintained a professional army longer. If it hadn't been for the first outbreak of the Black Death, Justinian may just have put the Empire back together -- at least around the Mediterranean.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-23 08:47|| 2021-12-23 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 He pretty much killed 90% of the population of Italy trying to put the band back together...

BTW, at Justinian's time the eastern empire was mostly greek speaking. I think he was the last eastern emperor to speak latin.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-12-23 09:23|| 2021-12-23 09:23|| Front Page Top

#6 How to say Byzantine Empire in Arabic
Arabic Translation
لإمبراطورية البيزنطية
al'iimbiraturiat albiznty

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-12-23 13:41|| 2021-12-23 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 If Belisarius had killed that many during his Italian campaigns, he wouldn't have had any problems holding the conquests, instead of constantly having to circle back to re-take cities.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-23 16:35|| 2021-12-23 16:35|| Front Page Top

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