Behind the Headlines: Muslim Hordes, the Islamic origins of Western Civilization

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With post-9/11 anti-Muslim hysteria in the West providing fertile ground for the perception of today's refugee crisis in Europe as a "Muslim horde invading Western civilization to rape our women, steal our jobs and generally tarnish Our White European Christian Values™," intense historical revisionism is underway to paint Muslims as having always been a 'backwards, sub-human horde'.

In a throwback to the medieval crusades, today's Western wars of conquest in the Muslim world have essentially been justified on the basis of a 'civilizing mission' to bring freedom and democracy to backwards peoples. Citing it as historical precedent, the revisionists propose that the Medieval era crusades launched against Muslim cities in the Eastern Mediterranean were justified because of the 'invasion and occupation of Medieval Spain' during Europe's Dark Age.

In what is arguably one of history's richest ironies, this complete inversion of what really happened when the Muslims came to Europe around 700 AD has obscured the truth about just who was behaving like a marauding horde and who was doing the civilizing. So this week on Behind the Headlines we're going to take a moment to explore the origins of Western civilization.

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I felt on that debate lately … just wanted to say : It seems Maures have been mixed up to the region of Poitou-Charente for France at that time. In my family my mum said she was called by her comrades ” la petite arabe” because of singular traits from arabe coming from paternal lineage and more one etc.. and she said they learned something like that in history at school on that old time too, not a writed thing into book though.

I didn’t found anything concluding in my research except some debate there :

http://www.passion-histoire.net/viewtopic.php?t=3932

It’s french link but if you can do some translate you’ll see what i’m talking about. that's made me think we're missing some of the truth on the " Battle of Tours" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours)

Anyways, thx for bringing more truth to the world :)
 
Really great show gang! Gave a new perspective on the history of the so-called 'civilized world'.
 
This is the documentary we referred to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM8HnvuKbAo

And these two books:

http://www.amazon.com/Before-European-Hegemony-System-1250-1350/dp/0195067746

http://www.amazon.com/Eurocentric-Conception-World-Politics-International/dp/1107604540

I don't know of any online articles that relate to what we said, so we might have to write one of our own.
 
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