[Travis McGee]

Book Description (Amazon)

This is a study that digs deeply into this "other" slavery, the bondage of Europeans by north-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored--perhaps for the first time--the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.

About the Author: Robert C. Davis is in the Department of History, Ohio State University, Columbus. (Published 2004)

[PzLdr]

This post starts WAY too late. The first Islamist terrorists were the Assassins, a Shia offshoot in the 12th and 13th centuries. They offered the whole package - the virgins, Paradise, etc., plus a whole lotta hash, and the inevitable bloodletting for the greater good of the Faithful. After the Zealots of Roman Judea, they were history's second band of suicide knifers. As is the wont of Islamist terrorists, they went out of their way to p*ss off the Supreme military power of their time, in their case the Mongol Empire of Mongke Qua Quan. Result - their extirpation, the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, the sack of Bagdhad [sound familiar?] and the rise of the Il - Khanate of Persia [a lesson the mullahs have apparently forgotten]. The focus on the Ottomans is not truly relevant to the title of the post.

[jolie560]

A Great summary of how men governed men back when both Christian methods and Islamic methods were both acceptable forms of submission to the cause.

"Civilization" I believe it was recorded as.... Yes--"civilization". Sprinkled with a little ritual was= "religion".

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If you want the complete, unabridged history of Muzzie violence, terror and warfare, read it in their own words at A Brief Chronology of Muslim History. Their pride in their violent conquest rather than peace, forgiveness and grace is absolutely disgusting and vile. This is what they have in store for us.

[tkathy]

Where's the accounts of Mohammad ordering 800 jews beheaded and their families sold into slavery?