Do you (as in both of you, I hate english language <g>) have any info to back up this?
Let me put it in other words. Before, and even after, Columbus "discovered" the New World, Europeans were also killing each other quite frequently. Hey, even when tired of fighting each other, they move the war to the east. Now, do you think that arabs were fighting each other even more than their contemporary Europeans? or Native Americans for that matter?
Now, don't you think that 18th-19th century European politics of "divide and conquer" (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule) had more to do with the conflicts in ME (and Africa, and SA) than just being "Barbaric Arabs"?
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