Today many news organizations like Fox portrait the Muslim world as trying to expand into and conquer the Christian world, to the point where it makes some people believe that a Muslim Ban must be instrumented to protect the Christian faith and people of European descent. This is reflexive of the Christian world over one thousand years ago, in the year 636 after the disastrous Battle of Yarmouk, which by Al-Baladhuri’s account would be a heavily one-sided battle, “Heraclius gathered large bodies of Greeks, Syrians, Mesopotamians and Armenians numbering about 200,000… The battle they fought at al-Yarmuk ,was of the fiercest and bloodiest kind. Al-Yarmuk [Hieromax] is a river. In this battle 24,000 Moslems took part.” Altho the numbers for the Byzantine forces are believed to be exaggerated by Al-Baladhuri, the Muslim forces were outnumbered by at a ratio of at least two to one, this battle would cause the Byzantine Empire to lose control of
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The lost of Egypt to the Muslims in 642 C.E. would open the door to greater Muslim expansion into the west which they would do in throughout North Africa, and later in the Visigothic Kingdom. 711 C.E., the being of the end of the Visigothic Kingdom, as Muslim forces would cross the straits of Gibraltar into Iberia, and into Western Europe. Ending two-hundred and ninety-three years of Visigothic rule in the Iberian peninsula, and three-hundred and ninety-eight years of Catholic rule in Iberia, with the founding of Al-Andalus which would not fall until 1492 C.E. with the Battle of Granada during the Reconquista. Taking a large territory of Christian lands from the Christians with the fall of Iberia to the Muslims, it began to appear as it was the end of the Christian world as this unstoppable tide of Islam spread across the Christian held lands, across Northern Africa, the Middle East, and
The lost of Egypt to the Muslims in 642 C.E. would open the door to greater Muslim expansion into the west which they would do in throughout North Africa, and later in the Visigothic Kingdom. 711 C.E., the being of the end of the Visigothic Kingdom, as Muslim forces would cross the straits of Gibraltar into Iberia, and into Western Europe. Ending two-hundred and ninety-three years of Visigothic rule in the Iberian peninsula, and three-hundred and ninety-eight years of Catholic rule in Iberia, with the founding of Al-Andalus which would not fall until 1492 C.E. with the Battle of Granada during the Reconquista. Taking a large territory of Christian lands from the Christians with the fall of Iberia to the Muslims, it began to appear as it was the end of the Christian world as this unstoppable tide of Islam spread across the Christian held lands, across Northern Africa, the Middle East, and