Tuesday, July 6, 2010

An Islamic State in Europe!

To put it in few words...

Some Europeans are afraid from Muslims to rule over the continent...
They are convinced that if Muslims become a majority they'll fight the others and establish an Islamic empire, forcing people to convert to Islam and killing all the non-believers, eventually destroying what they call the "western civilization".

Many deal with the existence of Muslims in Europe as something new, like it never happened before!
Well...Muslims were there before, and not as minority under Christianity rules, but they were the leaders of what is now Spain. they ruled over the Iberian Peninsula for almost 800 years.
'800 YEARS' of Islamic rule over what was known as Andalusia.

They entered a country which was shredded by wars between kings and lords, a conflict between enforcement of Catholicism on an  Arian majority 1, 2.
They took over the corrupted rulers and established one of the greatest eras in the Islamic history which have influenced the European civilization for centuries to come.

What the Muslims did and what they didn't do?
Yeah they did fight, those who supported the corrupted kings at that time, yes they made the Islamic laws "Shari'a" the general law of the country.
But they never forced anyone to believe in Islam and forsake Christianity or Judaism.
Christians and Jews were free to practice their beliefs.
They've did not kill children or raped women or massacre priests.
They've did not force people to leave their lands nor took it from them by force.
They established cities with universities, mosques, churches and synagogues, hospitals, libraries and courts which were equally available to all the citizens regardless of their race or religion. Christians and Jew even reached some high positions in the government. And universities (Madrasa) were open for every scholar.
It was a living example of what any Islamic country should look like.

Oh...to be fair and to judge justly...we have to look at the other side too!
let's see what the European did when they retrieved the land:
Muslims whether they were Arabs or native Spanish they were forced to convert from Islam to Christianity or to leave the country or they will be killed This was carried by what was known as the Spanish Inquisition, they clearly didn't tolerate the other. Over not more than 10 years they kicked out more than 250,000 Spanish Muslims out of Spain and they even forbid them from taking their belongings with them.

They later converted mosques to churches in best cases, and tried to erase any positive contribution of the 800 years long |Spanish Islamic civilization that had thrived in the Peninsula.

Now my friend, tell me who is the intolerant?

This is a small example of what had happened in reality when Muslims ruled.
So which is more logical, to believe what you have seen and experienced, or to believe a bunch of ideas and a rhetoric that has no foundation in reality, advertised by some extremists and radicals seeking some political gain.

I advice that we read more about how the Muslims have ruled some European territories, and even their own countries, rather than reading how will they rule Europe in fictional settings.

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