Comments by "R" (@rdrrr) on "The rise and fall of the medieval Islamic Empire - Petra Sijpesteijn u0026 Birte Kristiansen" video.

@rmmr1168 Fear. I elaborated further but YouTube ate my comment. Have you noticed how much more censorious this site's got lately? I miss the days of totally unmonitored comment sections.
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@mrmiah84 It is interesting that there have been multiple movements in Christianity based around the abolition of visual depictions of God and Jesus and the destruction of religious icons, which adherents consider idolatry. However, none of these movements found enough followers to change the way mainstream Christian churches view such things. During the 16th and 17th centuries when religious conflict flared in Europe some Protestants sought support from the Ottoman Empire because they considered Sunni Islam to be closer to their Protestant beliefs than the Catholic church. Of course it was also politics; many enemies of the Ottoman Empire were Catholic, and supporting Protestants morally and financially was a matter of pragmatism.
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@rmmr1168 100% definitely fear. You can anger Christians in the West all you want and all they'll do is complain. Meanwhile if you draw Mohammed then an extremist Muslim will behead you. I'm not saying all Muslims are violent, it's a small minority - but still enough of them are that people are scared of provoking them. This is why left-wingers will beat on Christians all they want but won't touch Muslims. Partly it's their "minorities are never wrong" ideology, partly it's straight-up fear of rioting, vandalism and murder.
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@ZaraZara-oh3fd Maybe Salman Rushdie said offensive things but people should not be killed for saying offensive things. And he was lucky, he did not get killed. The Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were not so lucky. Of course almost all Muslims are not violent but there is a minority that are willing to kill people for causing offense and the peaceful majority do not do enough to stop them. Right or wrong, people will judge a community by its worst members, so religious communities must police themselves.
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@alessandrodelogu7931 It's interesting to look at different perspectives. It was Alexios Komnenos who appealed to Western Europe for help against the Turks - but when the Crusaders came, the local Greeks came to resent them for their violence and "uncivilised" habits. And eventually the relationship between them got so bad, Crusaders sacked and burned Constantinople. The Crusaders were as deadly an enemy to the Greeks as the Turks were.
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