True in the last 100 years, but not true if you go far enough back (Middle ages, Islam encroached well into Spain, Eastern Europe etc, but was beaten back by Charles Martel and several other heroes.
Europeans knew who they were and what they stood for then, though.
“True in the last 100 years, but not true if you go far enough back (Middle ages, Islam encroached well into Spain, Eastern Europe etc, but was beaten back by Charles Martel and several other heroes.”
This is exactly what I am referring to. The islamists teach that Spain, et. all. are occupied muslim lands just as they do Israel. They are quite serious about this. We remember Martel, but also note the the ‘reconquista’ took 700 years to complete, finally ending in the fateful year of 1492. It was far more bitter and tenacious than anything we have seen in the last 100 years.