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To: Perseverando

But, But the Crusades...


5 posted on 08/04/2020 7:54:45 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: desertfreedom765
But, But the Crusades...

Did you mean the "first" Muslim crusades, almost 400 years before the first Christian crusades?

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In 711 AD, the commander of the Muslim crusaders, called "Moors," was Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad.

Ṭāriq landed, with his 80,000-man Umayyad army, at a place where there was a large mount, for which the Arabic word is "jabal."

The place took his name "Jabal Ṭāriq," or as it was later pronounced "Gibraltar."

Moorish cavalry, wielding curved scimitar swords, "went through all places like a desolating storm."

The Mozarabic Chronicle, 754 AD, recorded that thousands of churches were burned and: "God alone knows the number of the slain."

11 posted on 08/04/2020 8:25:42 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, Libs, Progs, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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