Its always fobs with the facebook lion pfps that say the most stupid basic knowledge stuff
There was always Christians and Muslims, Kurds back then didn't care about being Kurd same way Arabs didnt really care about being Arab, people identified with their qabils and religion,
Ethno-nationalism is a very new concept, back then it was you, your qabil, and God
But an argument could be made that they still had a sense of ethnic identity
Understand what I mean first.
It always say walahi With their narcissism and belief that they are better than others just because they were born in Europe
There are some people who believed in Islam only for their own interests these peoples are the Turks who are the Romans And the Persians These two peoples did not care about Islam and never spread it. What were the Turks doing in the Balkans for 300 years? Same thing with the Persians, they were only on the religion of their king.
Even in old times there was nationalism. Read some books on Islamic history to understand.
Turks, Kurds and Persians They have a high rate of atheism. Because for their ancestors, Islam was just a matter of interests, and now it is over.
A simple example of this is during the Umayyad era. The Umayyads wanted to impose the jizya even on the Persians who had converted to Islam. At that time, the Arab leaders fought the Umayyads in Bukhara just so that the Persians Muslims would not pay the jizya
Search for Al-Harith ibn Surayj. If you find a place where the Persians and Turks put Islam before their own interests, tell me about it.I can tell you a lot about it among Arabs, Somalis, Caucasians, Berbers and Egyptians. These people who took Islam seriously