[parisa]

The Moors "crossed" into Europe? That's rich. The Moors (Arabs)swarmed out of Arabian peninsula towards the empires of the East and the West, and they burned and slashed and killed and raped and pillaged and plundered, and spread the religion of peace as they went along.

[dennisw]

The Moors "crossed" into Europe? That's rich. The Moors (Arabs)swarmed......


And to think that when we taught Shakespeare in eighth grade we had to have it explained, what a Moor was. And even then we weren't sure

[Woodworker]

Islam is a religion of peace. Europe will be peaceful under Islam because anyone who objects to Islam will achieve the peace of the grave.

[dufekin]

If I recall correctly, the Moors were natives of Morocco, not Arabia. The Arab minority converted these ethnic Berber barbarians to Islam, and they in turn launched a barbarous invasion of Spain. The Christians ultimately prevailed in 1492, and Ferdinand and Isabella ordered their immediate conversion to Christianity or expulsion in 1496.