How Islam expanded. (My view)
In those times (600 AD) there were empires that had no fixed borders. So when a new empire appeared the others would quickly go to quash it so that it doesn’t become a threat to them. So any new empire had to expand quickly so as to survive. Otherwise it had little chance. So it would go and expand into the other competing empires next to it and try to beat them. A very tough position to be in. And that I think is what happened in Islam. This new empire was able to expand and defeat the bigger ones especially the Persian empire. With the Roman Empire the battles continued till the Islamic empire was dismantled in 1924. Roman Empire effectively won. But now Islam is back on the rise and hence is viewed as the new threat. Turkey is leading this rise and hence being subjected to many attacks and coup attempts etc.
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