Moorish invasion of Spain in the olden days is what Europe is heading toward now.

Spain was a Christian powerhouse before the Islamic invasion? Good lord... what is now Spain was borderline irrelevant prior to the Islamic invasion, other than being disputed territory. Spain became a Christian power after the Reconquista. Go read a book

Eh, methinks you don't know much about Spanish history.

Before the Moors it was the Visigoths. Do you think they were the Spanish originators? Nope. And before them the Roman empire ruled the Iberian peninsula, who took it away from someone else.

When the Moors conquered the Visigoths they ruled for roughly 700 years. Longer than the current "Spaniards" actually.

History is an interesting thing. If you go back far enough you realize some group was always taken over by some other group.

Who really has claim to geographical areas? The most powerful at that time, that's who.

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Spain was unrecognizable when the Moors from North Africa invaded and Islamified Spain, which had been a Christian powerhouse.

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I'm not trying to rationalize modern Islam or anything like that. I believe it encourages violence. But your statement about the history of Spain is wrong. In fact, the local population peacefully converted to Islam. Evidence suggests that most Muslims in Spain were not immigrants from North Africa. They were Spaniards (i.e., Iberians).

It also just so happens that the Islamic culture of that time was one of the most learned cultures of its day. The university at Cordoba was the best in Europe during that time. Medieval Islamic culture valued knowledge in a way that Medieval Christian culture did not.

Again, I'm not saying this to excuse modern Islam or jihadism or any of that crazy shite. But your historical narrative is wrong and somebody should tell you that.