[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Grizzled Bear]

Great. All we need is another Muslim “Holy City.”

[Sherman Logan]

Arabs ruled the island for roughly 200 years ... In an archaeological sense, the Arab or Islamic phase in Sicily is ephemeral—its duration was short

How many of us think of the US Revolution as being a short time ago?

[SIDENET]

This mosque city island is ours! It is the will of Allah that it be returned to the Islamic people. There will be no peace until the occupiers are gone!

[Tired of Taxes]

Moorish architecture is mixed with the cathedrals in Spain, too, so it makes sense that it also would be uncovered in Sicily.

I read in a book that Sicily was invaded by so many different peoples that the Sicilians themselves are a mixture. Which is not big news, I’m sure, to anyone. :-) Scottish (which explains the red haired Sicilians, they say) and Arabic are among the mixture. According to the book, there was a tradition of families painting the doors to their home a certain color. They didn’t know it, but, at one time, different colors signified different ethnicities. Families continued that tradition even after they forgot why. But anyone else could drive through pointing out the ancestry of the families in each home without even meeting them.

[gdc314]

I vote for reburial...

[shadowcat]

Everybody knows that is not a mosque-ito!

It's a vertical multi-level chianti press.

fool

[Clemenza]

The Mori were a significant portion of the population in Palermo for hundreds of yesrs...

[weegee]

“In one spot, you can sit on the mosque floor, eye-level with the modern city, resting an arm on a Norman fortification wall with one foot near what’s left of a house from the fourth century B.C. and another resting near the ruins of a dwelling from the sixth century B.C.,” Balco says.

It was a lot of things over time but because it was once a mosque in the middle of all that, it is still referred to as "the mosque". Nice.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Archaeologist Uncover Possible Medieval Mosque In Sicily

That just means that there's a Jewish or Christian site underneath it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Ragnar54]

Has anyone ever traced the origin of the Sicilian Mafia to the Muslim occupation? The Mafia seems to use Muslim-like terror techniques.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

The found something that was lost in a 1968 earthquake?
Imagine the odds. :-)

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Dig a bit and see if you find skulls 10 feet away from the rest of the skeletons. Maybe you’ll find the ruins of a school with children in it who were tortured and killed by the death cult. Surely there must be some sign of this cult which has left its painful mark on the world.

[Graymatter]

Sicily ping!

[SunkenCiv]

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