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Moreover if you consider actual results, Europe/Christendom was far more aggressive ancd expansivist than Islam.
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Islam was expansivist (militarily) in just two eras: the 7th-8th centuries (the expansion of the original Caliphate across lands badly depopulated by a series of natural disasters) and the 15th-17th centuries (the era of the Islamic empires: the Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan and Moghul).
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The political and intellectual battle was waged over a perceived expansivist, unbounded philosophy, and I wouldn’t assume that the same public will support anything but the minimalist, bounded philosophy that they’re endorsing here, and that cuts all ways.
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