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https://www.livescience.com/42716-epic-battles-that-changed-history.html

Interesting list I think.

Wow, you guys really hate Islam.

To me, it's just a newer poisonous, oppressive, invented, murderous, silly religion than the one that defeated the Umayyad that day(s).

If you want a serious answer to this question from the perspective of a highly anti-religious atheist please read some of what Christopher Hitchens had to say about Islam.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/07/why-are-we-so-scared-of-offending-muslims.html


Hitchens opposed all religions but he was smart enough to realize that they were not equally detrimental even though he believed that they were all detrimental. 

It's the same god, following godawful books, and one has an extra messiah.  Neither has ever produced anything remotely close to actual evidence of a god.

They're the same bad idea, spaced 500 years apart.

Weird history indeed.  I tend not to trust what adherents of one religion have to say about another, generally speaking.  Obviously, the battle of Tours, wherever it was, was historically significant and not taught in schools that I can recall.

When the Catholics cleared Spain of Muslims, they also cleared it of Jews, and many of the Jews went to Islamic regions, many of them well educated at the time.  They were able to live in a Muslim society quite well, back then.  The enmity between the two had not really taken hold until much later.

We spent a week in Avignon where the popes lived for over a century, instead of Rome, and then there were two popes for a while.  We toured the palace of the popes there, it's large, and sort of dark and dingy.  Just north of there is some rather good wine the popes had a hand in starting.

It's surprising how few Jews live in the world today really considering their outsized influence on events and history.

Edit:  I suppose I should add I feel no animosity towards Jews, in case someone wanted to read that into my comments.  I probably should add the same for Muslims broadly speaking, and Christians, and Atheists, and Zoroastrians, etc.

I've read 20 million, it's still a tiny number.  There are a lot of Jews who are atheists/agnostics, in my experience, like Einstein for example (who did believe in a Creator).  They are not adherents to the religion itself but identify with the culture and heritage.  Of my Jewish acquaintances, NONE of them were religious.  One even went to a Jewish Temple for agnostics, I had never heard of such a thing.  It was about heritage.  

I suppose I am frightened of their space laser though.