Comments by "Baha3 Alshamari" (@baha3alshamari152) on "Twenty Years' Anarchy" video.

  1. Funny enough they didn't colonize those lands Arabization was a very different process than modern day colonialism done by Europeans in America or Australia for example or Russian colonialism The Arabs didn't displace the local populations nor they moved in big numbers to those lands as settler colonialism like Russia (the population of Syria was 10 times bigger than Arabia back then) instead they made Arabic the official language and made the descendants of the local populations adapt Arabic cultures instead For example during the 9th century the Abassid caliphate banned the use of any other language other than Arabic due to the fact that most of the population was still using other languages Islam was still a minority religion even during the 10th century in Egypt and Iran and Syria since non muslims had the right to keep their religions as long as they pay their taxes It was more profitable for Muslim leaders to have most of their subjects as non Muslims since they can tax them more Islamization process happened centuries later due to the weakening and fracturing of the Abassid caliphate central power Yet it took almost to the 11th-12th centuries to become the majority religion
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