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To: Free ThinkerNY

They forgot to mention Roger I and the Italian Normans who drove the Saracen Muslims out of Sicily and Southern Italy.


3 posted on 09/26/2006 5:44:29 PM PDT by StAthanasiustheGreat (Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus Deus Aderit)
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To: StAthanasiustheGreat
"They forgot to mention Roger I and the Italian Normans who drove the Saracen Muslims out of Sicily and Southern Italy."

Right on. In around 1600 My ancestors were Byzantine Greeks living in Sicily and they teamed up with Roger I and drove out the Saracens. Also some of my ancestors lived in Albania and had to flee to Sicily in the 1400;s because the Ottoman Turks had invaded Albania. They were Christians and did not want to have to convert to Islam. I think it is amazing we of the West have been fighting the Muslims for 1000 years and that we still are.

18 posted on 09/26/2006 8:42:24 PM PDT by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewis)
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