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trivial things have much deeper roots tapping into other sources of social
discontent within the societies that are experiencing these revolts. The icon
controversy may have been a spark for a revolution related to issues that have
been smoldering for a much longer time. For example, marginalization of ethnic
minorities. The Greek fire illustrations shows that in some cases enough fear and
firepower control this discontent, but not for long.
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state, the Ottoman Empire, we can find one possible explanation for the lack of
Byzantine Virgin Statues. The Muslims do not believe that God exists in three
components, which the Christians call the holy Trinity. When the Christians say
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, they are saying God manifests as
himself, in his son Jesus, and the Holy Ghost, or the spirit of whom he created
and believes in God. A critical link between man and God was Jesus, which could
not have happened without his mother giving birth to him. To the Muslims, getting
rid of venerating the Virgin Mary would erase the ideological concept of the
Trinity at its source.