Michael Walsh
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first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Mar
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No, that's a very good point.
I want to make this ancillary point.
We think of this as the Arab conquest, but the Arabs didn't fight it.
They just had other people fight it.
So, for example...
By the time they go into Egypt, which was the first place they went, they're already starting to recruit Berbers from North Africa.
By the time they get to Spain, people forget how early Spain was conquered.
They started that in 711, and that was an almost all Berber army that had been Islamicized.
And then when they get into the Middle East, they take the Turks and they Islamicize them and the Turks become their fighters.
Saladin wasn't Arab.
He wasn't even Turkish.
He was Kurdish, but he commanded a Turkish army.
So the Arabs have done a very interesting thing is they somehow can prey on the sensibilities of the West to admire the admirable parts of the culture, the elaborate ceremony and the professions of friendship.
You should see the
The correspondence between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, and it's astonishing in the esteem in which they profess to hold each other.
At the same time, they're capable of extraordinary barbarism and cruelty and think nothing of wiping out entire populations.
But they do it through influence and money.
They don't actually physically take over these places until they do.
And you and I talked about when Rage to Conquer came up, the last chapter of that, which is so controversial but shouldn't be, I went after the Bush administration for
for its completely supine and ineffective response to 9-11, which leads directly to Mamdani and prayer rugs in New York City.
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