Would be funny only if Mohammad Salah was aware that Egypt wasn't always inhabited by Arabs, but by lots of different people and ethnicities. Arab Muslims just conquered and colonized Egypt, they just colonize differently than Europeans.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Is there a time period I could research for when Arab Muslims conquered Egypt?

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_conquest_of_Egypt

It was pretty quick, just 639 to 642. The western half of the Roman Empire had already collapsed and the eastern half wasn't doing much better.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 51 minutes ago

Thank you for the reference!

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Iirc it was the Abbasid Caliphate that was the first Muslims to take over Egypt. The 1000 years prior or so, it'd been Roman territory (Byzantine after the fall of Western Rome, but same difference)

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 51 minutes ago

Thank you for the reference!

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The Muslims conquered land and replaced its government, they did not murder and replace their entire population. This is why countries like Somalia are filled with black people who are Muslims and not Arabs.

Mohamed Salah has Egyptian ancestry. He is not a random Arab Muslim claiming that Egypt was Arab.

Settler colonization and replacing everything with 'superior white people' is a rather modern European tradion

[–] JustAnOrdinaryCreep@lemmy.ml 5 points 41 minutes ago

To colonise doesn't mean to murder and entirely replace an ENTIRE population.

But keep on putting everything except European conquest and colonisation into perspective, you're good at it.