Leonidas says it like it is!

Muslims weren't invented yet.

The POLYTHEISTIC (Persians religion at the time) faith of the Persians was centered on the clash of positive, bright forces, which maintained order, and negative, dark energies that encouraged chaos and strife. The Persian pantheon was presided over by Ahura Mazda, the all-good, all-powerful creator and sustainer of life, who gave birth to the other gods.

Islam is "Repackaged Polytheism".
Like Akhenaten (1352-1336 BC), Muhammad chose one god, from among hundreds of pagan gods, to be his one monotheistic god. Both merely repackaged polytheism and called it monotheism. Since archeology only recently discovered details of Pharaoh Akhenaten in the late 19th century, it is clear that Muhammad had never even heard of Akhenaten. But the similarities between these two founders of religion are evident.

Sources if needed:
https://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-polytheism-pharaoh-akhenaton.htm

https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/persian-empire

So to say the Battle of Thermopylae protected Europe from Islam is a somewhat correct assessment.

And the ancient Greeks had how many gods?

Who are you people? What makes you think this garbage is going to wash?

I'm not saying Islam is bad, it is good in its perspective ways, as with any religion. All religions have their ups and downs, I'm just saying the world would be really different if Islam were to take over Europe. Christianity wouldn't have been founded, Orthodoxism, and other Christian Elements.

CHRISTIANITY. WAS. FOUNDED. SIX. HUNDRED. AND. FIFTY. YEARS. BEFORE. ISLAM. WAS. EVER. A. WORD.

THIS IS NONSENSE!

Islam is "Repackaged Polytheism". The only thing with a significant difference is the Name. So in retrospect, Islam was made before Christianity, however with slightly different forms. You can re read my claim above.

And you can read my response to your ridiculous claim. The Spartans had just as many gods. And you could just as easily say that Chrisitanity was repackaged paganism which is why we have cults of saints and the Virgin Mary WHICH, BY THE WAY, ISLAM DOES *NOT* HAVE! And so what? Christianity and Islam are both derivative religions of Judaism anyway and there were no Jews whatsoever at Thermopylae.

None of it gives any sense to the thesis of an ancient battle that was COMPLETELY POLITICAL in nature would have any impact on modern religious tensions. The Persian empire was itself MASSIVELY pluralistic in terms of the religions they encompassed - there is no single culture that they were trying to spread. The Persians had no designs on mainland Europe. There was nothing going on in mainland Europe. They were bureaucrats, for God's sakes, trying to secure a stable administration over their Aegean port towns.

In other words: IT'S NONSENSE!

If the persians were to succeed in beating Sparta, they would have moved through southern eastern europe and possibly further.

And probably not the best thing to call a religion "nonsense", might get some hate for that.

No, they wouldn't. And you can tell because they weren't particularly proactive about expanding AROUND the Greek peninsula.

Honestly, this has been studied quite intensely, and by all evidence, it really was about consolidating political control over their economic interests in holdings that they already had. They got tired of the Greeks backing uprisings in Anatolia - and that's really it. The rest is all projections on your part - and yes, your views are nonsense. If you hate me for that, that's your own problem for believing in nonsense.

LOL very funny. On that note you could also say neither were Christians but the seeds of hatred from the Persians with their throat slitting ways were well and truly embedded in them back then.

Yes, you absolutely could also say that this conflict had literally nothing to do with Christianity and Islam! What a bunch of racist nonsense.

The only racists are Leftists who play the racist card as you've done at every opportunity. Snap out of it because real genuine people aren't going to take much more of the leftist Violence

You literally just credited Muslims with some perception you had about ancient Persia and that is the literal definition of prejudice. Your historical revisionism is nonsense and clearly intended to promote racism.

Typically as with every other Leftist, you are The Racist by even suggesting this is Racist. You may as well take your KKK suit out of the cupboard and wear it daily as we all know Democrats are Racist for the same example you gave and of course that they created The KKK. Getting your head out of the ground won't make any difference to you as you way gone beyond common sense, logic and freedom

No no, he's literally drawing an equivalence between two cultures seperated massively along historical lines because of a flimsy pretext of racial perceptions. It's literal racism. Like, the exact dictionary definiton of it.