--- "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Europe > In some cases, relations between Europeans and > Muslims are tense > today, causing growing racism and xenophobia from > both sides. During > the half-century before World War II, religious > persecution in Europe > was chiefly Anti-Semitic. After the Holocaust and > exodus of the Jews > from Europe, some believe that these attitudes were > replaced by > anti-Islam tendencies..... > Nasci queries? Fred, you seem to have completely missed out on the fact of Muslim Expansionism into pre dominantly Christian Europe, before WW1 and WW2; when under the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the Muslims force converted many a whole populations in the countries from Constantinople to almost all the Balkan states and also the states going north from Turkey up to the Caspian Sea, to then Czarist Russia's borders! North of the Balkans the Muslim advance was only stopped in Hungary, which country they occupied and from where they also retreated! They did not enter Austria, and it was then that the Austrians joined the Hungarians to defeat the Muslim Conquerers as illustrated by the famous incident of when the muslim forces where lured into eating 'Croissants' their holy Crescent Moon. These were laced with a deadly strong liquor to wholly lull the forces into sleep etc, thereby enabling their defeat and retreat! As told to me by a Hungarian person who is a close friend of mine, this was the very first time that bread was served in the shape of the Crescent Moon, laced of course! From then on the 'Croissant' was widely prepared in Europe, and the French made it their speciality. More pertinent to the above story is the fact that the muslim forces brutally murdered large sections of populations, who did not convert, and rewarded those that did. That is why you find Muslims with Christian Slav names in the old Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Albania included. What I am trying to highlight is that the violent muslim conquest and conversion of parts of Christian Europe, is what caused the inherent distrust and chauvinism against Muslims then and has simply continued to this day. That's my two paise worth! Nasci Caldeira Melbourne, Down Under. ____________________________________________________ On Yahoo!7 Messenger - Make free PC-to-PC calls to your friends overseas. http://au.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
