> It's an interesting piece of history that not a lot of people realize. I think it's pretty commonly known the Byzantine empire was Christian and did rule in

> It's an interesting piece of history that not a lot of people realize. I think it's pretty commonly known the Byzantine empire was Christian and did rule in many of the lands you referenced. > all Christian before the armies of Islam came in 632-1683. But to call these countries (to the extent they're even comparable geographical areas) as 'all Christian' is nonsense. For example, Berbers in Morocco in 500 weren't 'all Christian', not even close. Some surely were, and they'd surely been influenced by it like many religions before, but they weren't all Christian anywhere to the same extent they're virtually all Muslim today. > That's why all these places have/had Christian communities. They're the leftover conquered people who were too stubborn to convert of leave under the abuse of their Muslim rulers. It's not like a bunch of Christians have ever immigrated into any Muslim country - lol! Again, take Morocco. A lot of the Christian communities that exist today aren't remnants of settlements that are 1500 years old. Take Volubilis, a place where once Christians lived in Morocco, it's been abandoned for almost 1.000 years. Rather, many of today's Christian communities are remnants of much more recent migration, a few hundred years ago, in a colonial context. e.g. about 100 years ago a quarter million Spaniards lived in Morocco, most of them Christian, and - lol! - they did migrate to a Muslim country. Countless other examples exist, millions of Christians migrated to muslim countries during the colonial era, and indeed they also left their mark, and not all of them left.