10/10/10
"Charles Martel Defeated the Moors
at the Battle of Tours in 732."
Today, October 10th, is the anniversary of the start of the battle.
| I went to a Jesuit High School in Boston; it was rigorous and
demanding. A 2nd year History of Western Civilization teacher made
us memorize that headline phrase. The significance was that Charles,
aka "The Hammer", who was the grandfather of Charlemagne, stopped
the Moorish attempt to invade France. Previously the Moors, aka Muslims, had overrun all the Christian lands in the Middle East and had spread across North Africa and up into Spain. In Southeastern Europe they had flowed as far as the gates of Vienna. (Bit of trivia: Viennese bakers supposedly created crescent rolls to commemorate the city's salvation from the Moorish siege.) Charles Martel soundly hammered the buggers at Tours, marking the high-water mark of their expansion, and everyone thought that was the end of their problem with the Moors. Nowadays we know better. After the Crusades and the Barbary Coast pirates and the World Trade Center and a lot of other stuff before, after and in between, we know that the only good Moor is a Dead Moor. One would hope that with advances in genetic research, some brilliant scientist somewhere is identifying a "Muslim Gene" that specifically identifies an individual as positively a member of that group. This in turn could aid in the development of a toxin that would be 100% reliable in terminating Muslims, with no collateral damage to members of other groups.
Moor-Away
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