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Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

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Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH (7 July 1903 – 1 November 2000), better known as Sir Steven Runciman, was a British historian known for his studies of eastern Christendom during the Middle Ages.

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