> Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world.
It is all so tiresome. A discussion of Arabic influences in European culture would certainly be interesting. Too bad she tries to frame the history of Muslim colonization of Europe [0-4] and kidnapping of its people into slavery [5,6] as something where Europeans are the villains, and that what little benefit they managed to extract (or steal, as she put it) from these hostile interactions indebted them to their colonial masters.
It is all so tiresome. A discussion of Arabic influences in European culture would certainly be interesting. Too bad she tries to frame the history of Muslim colonization of Europe [0-4] and kidnapping of its people into slavery [5,6] as something where Europeans are the villains, and that what little benefit they managed to extract (or steal, as she put it) from these hostile interactions indebted them to their colonial masters.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna_(1529)
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devshirme