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Thread #92446   Message #1770517
Posted By: GUEST,ifor
27-Jun-06 - 04:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Apologies over slave trade?
Subject: RE: BS: Apologies over slave trade?
pdq...
Your take on the moorish invasion of Spain reads like some racist fantasy..
The clash between the Moors and Christian Spain was not a racial struggle .
Indeed ,some of the most ferocious persecutions involved religion and not race.
Take for example the extermination of the Cathars of Languedoc by the church at the beginning of the 13th century or the massacres of Jews at the time of the first crusade at the end of the 11th century.
Medieval Europe saw itself in religious terms in which Muslims , Jews and pagans were excluded on religious and not racial grounds.
ifor