Raymond Ibrahim With "Was the Muslim Conquest of Spain Driven by Piety or Plunder?"

 

Was the Muslim Conquest of Spain Driven by Piety or Plunder?

Raymond Ibrahim on June 23rd  Recently, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar University, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, claimed that the seventh century Muslim conquests of the mostly Christian majority Middle East and North Africa “were not conquests of colonization that rely on the methods of plunder, oppression, control, and the policies of domination and dependency.”  Rather, they were about bringing “knowledge, […] Read more of this post