Any Signs of Long-Predicted Anti-Muslim "Backlash"?

[Der_Trihs]

@Magiver

Don’t tell Der Trihs this, it’s a secret.

More like ‘inaccurate’.

[Kimstu]

@Really Not All That Bright

So, Islam’s been around for half a millennium, give or take.

Um, if by “half a millennium” you mean five hundred years, then considering that the traditional founding event of Islam (the Hijra) happened in 622 AD/CE, you’re off by nearly 900 years, which is kind of a long error bar. Maybe you meant “a millennium and a half”?

@RNATB

For the first hundred years or so its adherents were all rather angry and aggressive - spreading the word by the sword, and all that. All along, it turned out, they just wanted Jerusalem back. And possibly southeast Europe. […]

Then we get 350 years of relative quiet. No jihads, no fatwas against Danish cartoonishs or English novelists, just quiet.

Then we get about 50 years of angry Muslims again. What do they want? Jerusalem! I see a pattern here. […]

Islam has been around for 500 years […]

Jeepers, you did mean “half a millennium”. I’m scratching my head on this one, Really Bright; were you by any chance violating the “don’t post after three absinthes” rule?

ETA: Or mixing up Muslims and Sikhs?..

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Kimstu

Um, if by “half a millennium” you mean five hundred years, then considering that the traditional founding event of Islam (the Hijra) happened in 622 AD/CE, you’re off by nearly 900 years, which is kind of a long error bar. Maybe you meant “a millennium and a half”?

For some reason I was thinking of 1622.

I plead distraction - I was at work, and actually attempting to do some.