Scotty Posted August 3, 2011 Report Posted August 3, 2011 You have it backwards. Europe made it into the Middle East before the Middle East made it into Europe. No, the Arabs were a part of the conquest of Spain, although the bulk of the armies were moors from North Africa. Later, the Crusades, which you're probably thinking about, were sparked largely by Muslim attacks on the Catholic Byzantium Empre. Quote It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation. - Rex Murphy
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