{quote}"In the book "What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been," Barry Strauss of Cornell points out that an Islamicized Europe would have meant that during the Age of Exploration, European sailing captains would have planted not the Cross, but the Crescent, in the soil of the New World." {quote}
An interesting little fact which many might not be familiar with is the Crescent was in fact originally a symbol of Western/Christianity which the Islamojerks stole from us when they conquered Constantinopoli.
Originally Byzantine was founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king, Byzas. The city's patron was Artemis/Diana Goddess of the Hunt, who's symbol was the crescent moon. In 670BC they OFFICIALLY crowned their city's flag with the crescent moon in honor of Artemis/Diane. In 330 AD after Constantine became Christian and moved Nova Roma to the East, he also added the Virgin Mary's star on the flag. When the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453 the Ottoman rulers saw this flag with the Cresent all over Constantinopoli and took it as their own.
They can try to explain it away by saying that ancient cultures have always worshipped the sky, moon and stars but the fact still remains that it was the Greek city of Bynzantium to be the first state to ever use it as their national flag and as an official governing symbol in 670 BC. Muslims didn't use this flag until Byzantine[modern day Instabul] fell to them. So basically they are flying under a flag that originally not only has its roots in Western civilization BUT was also the flag of a Western civilization AND a Christian symbol to boot. What irony.