Abdul Rahman... Is he a dead man?

Carrera

Here is why Christians at the time became hated by the general population to the point of being thrown to wild lions. It was suspected they set fire to the city in order to hasten the apocalyptic second coming:
"They ran about as if distracted, and some rushed one way, some another. In the midst of helping their neighbors, men would learn that their own homes were blazing. Others learned, for the first time, that their property was on fire, by being told it was burned down. People would run from their houses into the lanes, with a hope of helping from the outside, or again would rush into the houses from the streets seeming to imagine they could do something from the inside. The shouting and screaming of children, women, men, and gray beards mingled together unceasingly; and betwixt the combined smoke and shouting no one could make out anything."
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/anci...sius-nero1.html