[YogicCowboy]

The Dark Ages in Europe were primarily the result of hundreds of years of Muslim invasion on land and piracy on sea.

[walford]

“The Dark Ages in Europe were primarily the result of hundreds of years of Muslim invasion on land and piracy on sea.”

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There were several centuries between the Fall of Rome and the first Islamic incursions into Europe [from the East through the Balkans and from the West through Iberia].

Fortunately for Western civilization, Christianity served as a glue holding our nations and people together. By the time the Sultans came in to take the Continent from each direction, Christianized Europeans were able to rally against the invaders, driving them off.

And I am saying this as a non-Christian.

Unfortunately, Iberia suffered under seven centuries of Islamic occupation. It took an Inquisition to finally eradicate the last vestiges of that violent, expansionist political ideology.

That makes it all the more tragic today as Spain is inviting their former occupiers back — and suffering the same violence and tyranny they experienced centuries earlier.