Funny u wrote this. Many people don’t understand that all that land, all of it was Coptic Christian prior to Muslims taking over, including 500 YEARS in Spain until Isabella expelled them. Much of my family and your families don’t know that that land was all Christian prior to the Muslim take over. Sadly, looking at Europe today, It almost or really is, looking like they just want to give all their land, culture religion over to Muslims.
In Spain it was actually 700 years. As I look out my window or sit out on the terrace I can see 3 rocks jutting out into the Mediterranean. A millennia ago they marked the entrance to the town harbor. At the base of the first rock is a bronze statue of Umayyad Abd ar-Rahman I of Damascus, the founder of the Emirate of Cordoba, who arrived from North Africa to establish his Moorish kingdom in 755. At the top of the same rock is a large cross that was put there to commemorate the surrender and expulsion of the Moors from that same harbor in 1489. The palace they left behind, the Alhambra, was taken over by Ferdinand and Isabella and it was from there that they authorized funds for an expedition by Christopher Columbus.