[Old Sarge]

Europe has forgotten the Moors, and the Ottomans, and Constantinople.

The Arab Street refers to Saladin in the present tense. Today, we're more concerned if Brad and Jen will get back together.

[ccmay]

The Arab Street refers to Saladin in the present tense.

Yes, and they are still well and truly pissed off that Ferdinand and Isabella drove them out of Andalusia five hundred years ago. That seems to be one of Osama's particular bugbears.

-ccm

[marc costanzo]

>>Europe has forgotten the Moors, and the Ottomans, and Constantinople. <<

Liberals in Europe and here in America have also forgotten about the marauding pillaging Saracens !

These Muslim brigands sacked the city of Rome in the 10th Century ! A whole hundred years before the 1st Crusade !