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I just finished reading "Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West" by Raymond Ibrahim, and it's a devastating account, and an eye popping book, of Islam's spread through Christian lands. 85% of what used to be Christian was conquered by jihad, all of north Africa, all Middle East, all Anatolia, and all the way to Vienna and Spain. Millions died, raped, enslaved, and forcefully converted. White women were particular targets. The overarching theme is that followers of Islam felt it was their holy duty of jihad to wage the war on infidels, no matter what the method and devastation. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0306825554/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_F...

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Your comments have been using HN primarily for ideological and political and (now) religious battle. That's not what HN is for, and as the site guidelines explain, we ban accounts that do that. We have to, because we can't have both flamewar and curious conversation, the same way you can't have both a forest fire and a good hike.

If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and comment only in the intended spirit, we'd be grateful. I don't want to ban you, but we've been asking you about this for years now.

I'm not sure HN is the venue for you to begin your race war or make whatever point you're trying to go for here.

The Hagia Sophia was the site of a significant massacre when it was forcibly converted from a church to a mosque.

Unless the blood from that massacre changed the acoustics of the space, it's still not enormously relevant to the article.

Eh, I will kind of buy that. It was a church before it was a mosque and churches tend to have quite a bit more music than mosques.

The race war comment above seemed uncharitable.

Islam is not a race.

The comment you're responding to (which is flagged and dead) doesn't belong on HN, but unless you've invented some genetic basis to tell apart Anatolian Turks and Greeks (good luck with that) try to be more precise about what irks you.

This kind of dismissal makes things worse.

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