Paul Bryant

on: "Islam Was Always Part of Europe", interview with Michael Borgolte by Ralph Bollmann

This interview is a shameless example of politically correct-but factually wrong-Islamist propaganda and revisionist history. The website Qantera.de does itself a disservice even posting it. Islam was not always a part of European culture because Islam did not always exist, but aside from this inaccurate claim, historically Islam was only a part of European culture once invading Muslim armies carried the religion with them and forced it on the Christians who were already there. Let's remember that the majority of the Middle East and North Africa was Christian centuries before Muslim invaders conquered those areas.

Muslim invaders then attacked and took over Christian lands in Europe too. These were religious wars against Christians in the name of spreading Islam. But to listen to Borgolte it's the evil, intolerant Christians who victimized and oppressed tolerant peace-loving Muslims. There are so many absurd statements by Borgolte here, but I will just point out this one. "With Christianity alone, it would have been impossible to develop tolerance in Europe." Is this guy serious? The scary thing is, I think he is.