Muslim attacks on Italy during the Dark Ages

Did you know that the Basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome, with its floors of silver and its walls of gold, was sacked by the Muslims in the ninth century, 46 years after Charlemagne was crowned emperor there? Did you know that in the same century Brindisi and other Italian cities were conquered and controlled by the Muslims for decades, that Naples and Capua were attacked several times, that the Muslims burned the abbey at Monte Cassino and that Muslims crossed the Alps from Spain into Italy? Sandro Magister makes these points in his review of Andrew Bostom’s Legacy of Jihad.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 05, 2006 07:02 PM | Send