Another cute blooper from the same academic:
The Battle of Lepanto escalated hostilities against the Muslim world.
You can just imagine the Muslim world, sitting there peacefully and politely, as the hostilities are treacherously escalated against such quiet, peaceable folks.
Of course, it’s all crap. The Muslim world, the non-Muslim world, and the whole world waged war and did both horrible and wonderful things.
But hey, this is the same ultra famous scholar who said that European proletarians welcomed the Arab invasion of Europe in 711 because it was going to put an end to their exploitation.
In this worldview, any invasion, decision, act of warfare, etc carried out by non-Europeans (and later by anybody but the US) is good and progressive. Shit, this is -the dominant, by the way – school of thought that promotes the idea that the Aztecs and the Incas practiced feminism and communism until Spaniards came and inflicted sexism and capitalism upon them.
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