Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "What if the Roman Empire Reunited Today?" video.

Ace Of Blazes Eh, most muslim countries through the ages seem to have stuck to just regular discrimination through things like extra taxation, not outright killing...
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Ace Of Blazes I really recommend that you read up on Islam a bit, because you're assuming a ton of things about Islam that's just not true. Islamism (a particular form of radical islam) is a fairly new phenomenon created in (among other places) Egypt in the wake of western colonialism over there... Personally I'm a European atheist, but seriously, look at the world, first of all we've made huge improvements to it, the narrative that things are getting worse globally, is just bs. And "religious wars" are almost universally caused by or fueled by non-religious motivations. shrugs
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Ace Of Blazes Look at history, Christianity easily have the most terrorists of the 3 monotheistic religions... Islam didn't have any inquisition or crusades where they killed anyone of other faiths, when they captured cities they left the citizens in peace for the most part as long as they accepted muslim rule and payed the extra taxes on non-muslims. Jihad is a muslim obligation to fight, either defensivly or in some interpretations to fight evil within yourself. As for the quote you mentioned, I certainly don't see any evidence in that quote that the "fight" in question is physical in any way, you fight your demons every day in your mind if you're like most people on this planet... As for tension between muslims and others... Prior to the creation of Israel, Muslims, Christians and Jews coexisted just fine in most muslim nations around the world, easily beating Christian and Secular nations in peaceful coexistence... Of course there where exceptions. But I really don't think singling out Islam as any worse then the other two makes sense at all... If anything I'd claim that all the Abrahamic faiths are more warlike and disrespectful towards both human and animal life then the polytheistic religions in the east as well as Shamanism. But not that one of those three are any worse then the other two...
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+Viidakonyka98 That's debatable... There's a reason why it fell in the first place. Ok, granted the following is a simplification and there's a ton more stuff involved, but still. For a start Sweden was and is more focused towards mainland Europe, they've always been more continental then the rest of us, that's part of why they ended up in the EU while Norway didn't. Norway on the other hand has always been both more insular and more focused towards the sea, the later of those two things where also true for Denmark. A result of that is that we've always been striving towards maintaining good relations with whoever is the dominant power at sea, back then the UK, now the US (and that's a big part of why we're in NATO while Sweden isn't, and it's also why Denmark is a part of NATO, that and Denmark and Sweden could never agree on the terms for a Nordic defensive alliance back in the day) Furthermore how the different countries are put together also impacts how they work. Norway and Iceland are low population density coastal nations with unique challenges that more urbanized nations like Sweden and Denmark do not face. In short, while I do believe that we could benefit from some form of union, it would have to be a much looser union then the Kalmar union to remain stable, based on mutual cooperation of independent nations rather then a unified government. Basically a strengthened version of the Nordic Council.
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+Ahura Mazda Reminds me of the Norman (viking really) conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Sicily actually ended up saving many classical Greek works due to the relative tolerance of the Norman overlords towards the partially Muslim population
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Ahuratchek Cartman?
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Ahuratchek A racist I'm guessing?
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Ahuratchek Ok? In a series with the same name?
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Ahuratchek Ah, figures. Not my thing.
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Ahuratchek There's other ways of approaching said topics. Southpark isn't and will never be my preferred approach. As for how "simplistic" it is, I cannot say, I've never watched a full episode, I've always had enough after a few minutes...
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Ahuratchek I think it depends on the person. It's just not my type of humor...
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Jugger Pot Again, it depends on the time frame and people involved more then their actual faith.
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Ace Of Blazes Likewise the Bible (new testament included) can be quite horrifying at times too... What matters however is how they're used, and if you look at Islam historically there's been a separation of religion and state in some form or other in muslim states for ages.
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Ace Of Blazes " And one question, why do you wish to take such exception to one of the four worst religions in history? All of them have caused vast amounts of damage to the world and curved advancement. So why come to the defense of the one shoving out the most terror attacks in recent history? You say to oppose them all, but why defend one and damn the others?" Because you're redacting history by claiming that they're somehow claiming that it's the one with the most terror attacks in recent history when it is in fact not the group with the most terror attacks in recent history, neither world wide nor in the great majority of western nations. Heck, even in the middle east religious motivations are dwarfed by political ones in the case of most terrorists out there. Also, I didn't say that I'm against religion, I simply said that I'm an atheist myself. There's a ton of really smart people that are religious, and and even though I don't agree with their world view I can respect them as well as disagree with their choices without throwing out simplifications like claiming that poor decisions on their part is solely caused by religion when they are in the wast majority of cases caused by other things instead.
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Ace Of Blazes Right, Sweden is the "rape capital of the world"... "In 2014, there were 6,700 rapes reported to the Swedish police — or 69 cases per 100,000 population — according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå), which is an 11 percent increase from the previous year. The number of convictions have remained relatively unchanged since 2005, with approximately 190 convictions on average each year. There have been several international comparisons made, placing Sweden at the top end of the number of reported rapes. However, police procedures and legal definitions vary widely across countries, which makes it difficult to compare rape statistics. For example, Sweden reformed its sex crime legislation and made the legal definition of rape much wider in 2005, which largely explains a significant increase in the number of reported rapes in the ten-year period of 2004-2013. The Swedish police also record each instance of sexual violence in every case separately, leading to an inflated number of cases compared to other countries. Additionally, the Swedish police have improved the handling of rape cases, in an effort to increase the number of crimes reported. Raised awareness and a shifting attitude of crimes against women in Sweden, which has been ranked as the number one country ingender equality may also explain the relatively high rates of reported rape." Or in other words, you get the exact same rapes in the US, Canada, or any other western nation they just don't show in the statistics...
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