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I'm guessing because only a small portion of those ethnicities being "occupied" really care about who's land is who's. I'm betting that portion is made of old people.

Muslim lands occupied by westerners gets a lot of attention in western media because our troops are there.

India was partitioned into Pakistan and India (later also Bangladesh) to give the Indian Muslims a homeland. The Indian Subcontinent has had a sizeable muslim population for centuries. I don't really consider that occupied.
Byzantium was conquered in the 1400s. It's too late to call that Christian lands; we haven't had a majority there for at least a few centuries.

Turkey has occupied a lot of lands that are Christian dominated, but after World War One it committed a lot of genocide. It's not Christian majority anymore, bar Cyprus.
The real issue in my mind is that there is ongoing mass persecution of Christians in the middle east that we flat out don't care about. The middle east has always had large Christian populations, but it looks like they won't last another generation, so many are being forced to emigrate.

tl;dr: Everyone is occupying everyone, although not everyone is as good as it as others.

Have you ever seen England?

If it happened more than two hundred years ago, it doesn't count as "occupation", it counts as "population".

The Iraq/Afghan war is far more recent than any of your other examples and their effects are still ongoing. Thus of course its going to get more media attention. Muslim occupations don't get any media attention because none have happened recently. Wars that happened centuries ago are not exactly on anyones mind.

Secondly, anything the US gets involved in will steal the limelight by default…because US.

Furthermore it sounds like you are equating the war in Afghanistan to a continuation to the Crusades. Why? None of these wars were a matter of "Christian vs Muslim". They were more of the same wars made for political power and gain or in the case of the US: retaliation.

I get especially annoyed when people act as though the US Afghanstan War was in any way related to the Crusades. That's what Al Qaeda thinks. George Bush did not say "Hey all church follows! Gets go out and conquer the holy land!" did he?

Say it was for oil or WMD's over some personal feud the Bush family had with the Hussiens, whatever the war was motivated by, it wasn't motivated by a will to destroy all Muslims. Lets not forget that the whole thing started with Osama Bin-laden and it ended with him too. The US was out to get just that one man and his followers. Not an entire religion.

You can't compare this one to any other war that was religiously driven. So can we please stop bringing Islam into the subject of the Iraq war?

correct me if i'm wrong:

a land of the celts, invaded by romans, then invaded by the saxons (some continental europeans), then Christianised, then invaded by vikings (sweedish/norwegian/danish), then invaded by danish and french

why all the fuss over england? we don't have any good weather.

@Blue Screen (of Death)
even if Bush did say that, the sacred place for abrahamic religions is in jerusalem

Why do you guys care about whose land is whose?
Why don't we just make up and party?

Here's what's up in Palestine

Anyway, there's no reason that a one state solution isn't possible. The only obstacle is intolerance.

Moon colonization is going to be fun…

At least there's nobody there to kick out.

As far as we knoooooooooooooooooooooooow~~~~.

We'll import people to pretend to be natives that we can intern.

Why are you so obsessed over Islam? 6 out of your 9 forum posts have something to do with Islam.

Remember that part of the torah where they commit genocide twice? And the part where the Catholics had an inquisition?

I hate to break it to you, but no religion is free from historical wrongdoing. None. Also, no ethnicity has ever not had racists, and no government has ever not had corruption.

Islam just has the disadvantage of the majority of it's adherents living in a backwards and rather lawless region of the world. If the situation were reversed, and it was Muslims living in a cosy North American suberb and Christians living a still largely tribal existence in central asia, they'd probably be appalled at how intolerant and barbaric we seem.

"Did you know Jordan was part of British Palestine?" No, I didn't. That's because you're wrong.

Lol I was just about to link the same thing. The Transjordan territory was still officially under British Mandate for Palestine.

I don't give a fuck what the hell it's called. The British Mandate for Palestine is just a name of a legal document. Even if it was called the Chinese Mandate for Albania, it wouldn't change the fact that it partitioned certain strips of land into two different protectorate states: Palestine and Transjordan.

Sorry buddy, you're still wrong.

And what are you implying with that information?

That you're a n00b who doesn't know shit and can't deal with being wrong.

And what are you implying with that statement?

Hows being a muslim like?

Stuff.

I'm a Catholic actually.

I was being sarcastic Dhimmi.

That's not what this guy says.

Really?

You have no idea what I'm trying to do, do you?

You got me there. I really have no idea what Dhimmis do.

Requesting lock. This thread has gone too out of hand.

You guys are done. The forum is not a place for this type of acrimony. If you wish to continue your discussion, post on each others' walls, or use PMs. Please refrain from this sort of confrontational and rude behavior on the forums.