[PGalt]

I read that before (not in this detail) somewhere on Islam Watch (cannot find the exact article)...but more background information...here...

“On September 11, 1581, Queen Elizabeth granted exclusive trading privileges to 16 individuals, including Staper and Osborne. This agreement led to the founding of the Levant Company.”

from...

http://www.islam-watch.org/AdrianMorgan/Clash-of-Civilizations-Shakespeare.htm

also...

Janos (John) Hunyadi, Hungarian warrior and captain-general, is today virtually unknown outside Hungary and the Balkans, but he probably did more than any other individual in stemming the Turkish invasion in the fifteenth century. His actions spanned all the countries of south-eastern Europe, leading international armies, negotiating with kings and popes. He died of plague after having destroyed an Ottoman fleet outside Belgrade in1456. His work slowed the Muslim advance, and may thus have saved Western Europe from falling to Islam. By extension, he may have helped save Western civilization in North America and Australia, too. Yet hardly anybody in West knows who he is. Our children don’t learn his name, they are only taught about the evils of Western colonialism and the dangers of Islamophobia.

from...Fourteen Centuries of Jihad against European Civilization...here...

http://www.islam-watch.org/Fjordman/Fourteen-Centuries-of-Jihad-Against-European-Civilization.htm

Thanks for the ping/post, Salvation. Fascinating, educational, enlightening.

[Salvation]

This makes me wonder about the dates connected with the Spain and London bombings too.

Hmmmm.