First Muslims in EuropeFirst Muslims set foot on the European land back in 711 CE, when there were no modern European nations in existence. They were Mauritanian soldiers of General Tariq Ibn Ziyad, whose name became immortal in the geographic name Gibraltar (Gibr al-Tar, Mount of Tariq). Muslim troops landed on the territory on Roman Spain, which was illegally occupied by Barbarian hordes of Germanic Visigoths. The Moors were once citizens of the Roman Empire, therefore they felt responsible before their Spanish fellow countrymen suffering under the Germanic yoke. Let me remind that modern Spanish language belongs to the Romanic,...