Cultural coexistence corroded Christian identity until forced martyrdom protests
Evidence
The situation was a familiar one in Islam. The West was to have plenty of opportunity to observe the corrosive effect of Moslem virtues when placed side by side with Christian virtues, and there was probably no way short of conquest or conversion by which the process could be arrested. But for a few years between 850 and 860, the sense of being gradually suffocated provoked a reaction among a handful of Christians, and led to protests—not so much against Islam as against the complacency of their fellow Christians—and to martyrdoms. — R. W. Southern, Western Views of Islam in the Middle…, 135
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Anti-Christian violence endangers the language-based Sinhalese unity against Tamils. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 241
Related
- Seeking martyrdom repeatedly endangered Christian-Muslim coexistence across centuries (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-Christian violence endangers the language-based Sinhalese unity against Tamils. (similarity 0.79)
- Purity-versus-acculturation tension predates and recurs wherever religious groups coexist (similarity 0.78)