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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8244191, member: 110504&quot;]Nope, even as metaphor (which is how it was intended), it was just a <i>little </i>more nuanced than that!&nbsp; Both the taifas, and the likes of Leon-Castile and Aragon /Barcelona, had Lots of other contributing demographic factors going on.&nbsp; Not unlike what you&#039;re looking at today, in various parts of the world.&nbsp; ...As an adherent of exactly one of them, I find it imperative to make the necessary distinctions between religion per se, and other, no less immediate social, political and cultural dynamics.&nbsp; In the smoke of battle, it&#039;s easy to conflate the two.&nbsp; Given which, I&#039;m sorry for having used the phrase, &#039;Christian chimpanzees,&#039; instead of something more accurate, which would have taken several more adjectives.&nbsp; ...On a rhetorical level, I was doing exactly what I just got through excoriating.&nbsp; Time for some Dumb Pie --piping hot from the oven.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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