>What did Islam take from Rome, but the lands which were stolen

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>What did Islam take from Rome, but the lands which were stolen from Semites, and what did the Germans take from Rome, but the land which was once stolen from the Gauls.


>Rome was an atrocity two thousand years long, stifling creativity such that the Magians had to to in a few years what others did in millennia.
>This alone is sufficient to explain the intense vehemence with which the Arabian Culture, when released at length from artistic as from other fetters, flung itself upon all the lands that had inwardly belonged to it for centuries past. It is the sign of a soul that feels itself in a hurry, that notes in fear the first symptoms of old age before the shadow of youth. This emancipation of Magian mankind is without a parallel. Syria is conquered, or rather delivered, in 634. Damascus falls in 637, Ctesiphon in 637. In 641 Egypt and India are reached, in 647 Carthage, in 676 Samarkand, in 710 Spain. And in 732. the Arabs stood before Paris. Into these few years was compressed the whole sum of saved-up passions, postponed hopes, reserved deeds, that in the slow maturing of other cultures suffices to fill up entire centuries. TheCrusaders before Jerusalem , the Hohenstaufen in Sicily, the Hansa in the Baltic, the Teutonic Knights in the Slavonic East, the Spaniards in America, the Portuguese in the East Indies, the Empire of Charles V on which the sun never set, the beginnings of England's colonial power under Cromwell - the equivalent of all this was shot out in one discharge that carried the Arabs to Spain and France, India and Turkestan


Who /hates/ Rome now?